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Further Reading Websites
Zhou Dynasty Feudalism and Early Confucian Society Indiana University
Lianzuo System of Punishment History - Families That Hang Together China Daily article
The Philosophy of Filiality in Ancient china: Ideological Development of Ancestor Worshipin the Zhanguo Period The University of British Columbia
1.7 Spring and Autumn China (771-453 BC) PDF Indiana University, History G380 - Class text-Spring 2010- R Eno, Indiana University Scholarworks Pages 1-7
- Scholars have dated China's first civilization to about 1500 to 1100 BC.
- They used silkworms to make raw silk; they developed writing and created bronze vessels during this time.
- A two-wheeled chariot existed as a military tool.
- Mountains, rivers and the sea completely isolated ancient China from the western world until the eighteenth century AD.
- In the eleventh century BC, the Zhou Dynasty began its rule and continued until 256 BC, spanning 790 years.
- Paper made its debut in the first century BC. It is believed it was a mixture of mulberry bark, hemp, and rags mixed with water, mashed flat, pressing out the water, and drying the mixture in the sun.
Further Reading Websites
Zhou Dynasty Feudalism and Early Confucian Society Indiana University
Lianzuo System of Punishment History - Families That Hang Together China Daily article
The Philosophy of Filiality in Ancient china: Ideological Development of Ancestor Worshipin the Zhanguo Period The University of British Columbia
1.7 Spring and Autumn China (771-453 BC) PDF Indiana University, History G380 - Class text-Spring 2010- R Eno, Indiana University Scholarworks Pages 1-7
