HISTORY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Shandong, Neolithic, Dance India Dance
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History 250 lecture 5 neolithic age. The new stone age saw the emergence of a rich pottery tradition, which was incredibly important to the creation of culture: this culture was discovered along the yellow river. During the 6th/5th century bce small walls began to be built that eventually became the great wall of china. The southern and northern cultures were distinct: the south domesticated rice while the north domesticated millet. The modern day shandong province in the east had black pottery. The area in the western yellow river had colored pottery around 8000 bce. Colored pottery culture moved from the west to the east (between 3500 bce . 3000 bce) and black pottery moved from the east to the west: the two cultures met in the middle and created green pottery culture around honan. Progression from stone to pottery to green pottery to bronze. In the west yellow river area around 3000 bce written language developed.
