1. Between the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers
Ancient China
Between the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers

3. Specialized Workers Nobles- land owners
Civil Servants- government administrative workers
Professional warriors
Artisans
Wall builders
Peasants- farmer

4. Complex Institutions Duties to their family and to their emperor
Religion:
Main god: Shang Di
Spirits of ancestors have power to bring good fortune or disaster
Feudalism- use of land that legally belonged to emperor in exchange for military protection

5. Advanced Cities
Anyang- capital of the Shang Dynasty, built out of wood
Hao- Zhou capital

6. Advanced Technology
Had Bronze, but thought it was too precious for tools
Wooden digging sticks, hoes, sickles made of stone
Chariot
Silk
Roads
Canals
Coined money
Iron/cast iron
Dagger, axes, swords
Crossbow

7. Record Keeping Oracle Bones Calligraphy
write a questions to the gods on a bone, apply a hot poker to it, which causes it to crack, priest interpreted the cracks to see how the gods had answered
Calligraphy
Written language based on ideas not sounds
One could read Chinese without being able to speak a word of it