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19 Cards in this Set
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loess
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fertil soil that comes from the huang he river
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oracle bones
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what the shang used to cunsult with the gods
(animal shells that priests scratched a question on then applied a hot poker to and determined the cracks) |
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mandate of heaven
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your right to rule came fron the heavens
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dynastic cyle
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the patttern of rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties
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feudalism
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king grants land to nobles in exchange for protection and military service
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first dynasty to leave written records
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shang dynasty was the first to leave this
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first dynasty to use iron
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zhou dynasty was the first to use this
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the shang dynasty's supreme god
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shang di
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china's heartland and where it was located
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-north china plain
-between huang he and chang jiang river |
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the amount of china suitable for living
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only 1/3 if china was suitable for this
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major tool that the shang used in war
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chariot
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what china called themselves because they thought they were the center of civilization
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the middle kingdom
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women in china
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they were treated as if they were nothing and expected to obey thier husbands
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chinese writing
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because of this people from all over china who spoke different languages could understand each other
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Zhou dynasty's improvement to technology
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-roads and canal
-coined money -blast furnace |
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the reason zhou dynasty declined
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-nomads attacked from the north and west
-new capital built in luoyang -lords fighting over territory and values declining |
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warring states
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lords and nobles were constantly fighting over territory
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two major rivers in china
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huang he and chang jiang
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china's sorrow
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the huang he's floods were unpridectable, earning it his nickname
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