1. Early Society in East Asia
Chapter 5

2. Political Organization in Early China

3. Early Agricultural Society and the Xia Dynasty
The Yellow River
Yanshao Society and Banpo Village
Xia Dynasty

4. The Shang Dynasty
Bronze Metallurgy &
Horse Drawn Chariots
Shang Political
Organization
The Shang
Capital at AO

5. The Shang Dynasty
Shang Capital at Yin
The Tomb of Lady Fu Hao
Beyond the Yellow River Valley

6. Zhou Dynasty
Rise of the Zhou
The Mandate of Heaven
Political Organization

7. Zhou Dynasty
Weakening of the Zhou
Iron Metallurgy

8. Society and Family in Ancient China

9. The Social Order
Ruling Elites
Specialized Labor
Merchants and Trade

10. The Social Order
Peasants
Slave

11. Family and Patriarchy
Veneration of Ancestors
Patriarchal Society
Women’s Influence

12. Early Chinese Writing and Cultural Development

13. Oracle Bones and Early Chinese Writing

14. Thought and Literature in Ancient China
Destruction of Early
Chinese Literature
Zhou Literature
Book of Songs

15. Chinese cultivators and Nomadic Peoples of Central Asia
Steppe Nomads
Nomadic Society

16. The Southern Expansion of Chinese Society
The Yangzi Valley
State of Chu