HIST 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 65 pages long!)
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Key terms: yellow (river, lonshan, sericulture, xia, shujing, shang, client states, fu hao, zhou, mandate of heaven, dynastic cycle, well-field system. Produces yellow silt during flood floods kill millions lifeline for northern china. Sericulture = silk making: exclusive to china (monopoly) Debate on if it existed or not. Story told in the shujing/book of doc. Transition period between longshan and shang dynasty. Kings were military chieftains and high preist. Ge(cid:374)de(cid:396) (cid:862)e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455)(cid:863): limited leadership, diviners of oracle bones (silk, hemp, cloth, specialty weaving, education. Book of documents or shujing-zhou justifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) fo(cid:396) thei(cid:396) takeo(cid:448)e(cid:396) of the ha(cid:374)g d(cid:455)(cid:374)ast(cid:455) madate of hea(cid:448)e(cid:374) Feudalism= large landowner essentially have private kingdoms of peasants and private armies. Ta(cid:454)es a(cid:374)d (cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)olle(cid:272)ted i(cid:374) (cid:272)(cid:396)ops f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the (cid:862)pu(cid:271)li(cid:272)(cid:863) field. Rice farming transformed and enriched china (shifted power to the monsoon south) Shi class: bureaucrats and advisors (powerful; comparable to scribe) Move toward more abstract ideas (cid:862)hea(cid:448)e(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:374)ot a pla(cid:272)e (cid:271)ut a po(cid:449)e(cid:396)
