HIS102Y1 Midterm: HIS107 Midterm Exam Study Note.docx
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Hunting remained a subsidiary source of food in addition to domesticated cattle, pigs and poultry. Lady fu hao was the consort of the 21 shang king, wuding, and was entombed around 2500. Bronze was the metal of nobles, shamans and kings. The shang craftsmen utilized a bronze casting method known as the piece-mold technique. There was no written text as such, but there are a great number of shang inscriptions. The dynasty ended in a great slave revolt about 1050 b. c. e, which was joined by zhou. Had became more militarized than the shang and appear to have developed improved tactics of chariot warfare. Founders wen and wu later became civil and martial-the two primary and complementary dimensions of administration. 771 bce, zhou capital sacked, king killed and the capital was moved to luoyang. The name china actually came from the qin, the first to create an imperial chinese identity.
