[HIST 105] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 68 pages long Study Guide!
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Formed by stacking coils of clay into desired shapes. Painted with red and black pigments: liangzhu culture lower yangzi area. Silk weaving, mortise and tenon joints in timber construction. Development of technology shown in carving intricacies into hard jade. The shang dynasty (?1500-1045 b. c. e?: evidence: archeology and written text, anyang: one of the capitals, uncovered large palaces and rich tombs of rulers, discovered fu hao tomb. Owned land and helped lead large army against invaders. Noblewomen may have had considerable status during shang period: oracle bones. Written chinese took shape 4,000 years ago. Animal bones or turtle shells on which priests wrote question addressed to the god"s. Heated them until cracked and interpreted cracks. Wrote answers and questions on bones which is written text seen today: chinese writing system tens of thousands of characters, or written symbols , which represent whole word or idea. People could adopt characters even if they did not speak a related language: society.
