ETHRSON 18 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Zhuang Zhou, Xun Kuang, Warring States Period
12 Oct 2018
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Lecture 2: 9/7/16: the axial age in china. We all have our own assumptions about how the world works. In an era of liberation, we are living in world of globalization. Attempts to break from the times that came before has been going on for quite a long time. Today"s lecture is a jump through the world"s history. When we were getting these hierarchical societies and such: about 10,000 years ago was when domestication began, settling down took place, emergence of cities and such, this then gave way to the development of complex societies. Metallurgy came into play and is making societies hierarchical: aristocracy was using bronze, this was the bronze age (3000-2000 bce, these materials were spreading across all of eurasia. Societies began to form which looked all very similar. Crucial turning point: 1st millennium bce: all of the societies which had recently formed began to crumble: people began to realize a natural substance was able to replace bronze.
