Art & Architecture : • Shang valued bronze more than gold. • Bronze ritual vessels were symbols of kingship.
Jan 02, 2016
Art & Architecture:• Shang valued bronze more than gold.
• Bronze ritual vessels were symbols of kingship.
• Invented porcelain
wares.• Practice of jade
carvings.
• Like Egypt, cities were political and religious social centers. • Most people did not live there.
Zhou learned
to produce glass.
Shang:• Horse-drawn chariots, with spoke-wheels.
Technology:
• Had a calendar system with a 360-day year of 12 months of 30 days each.
• Made silk cloth.
• China enjoys a monopoly of silk for the next thousand years.
• Invented the first compass.Zhou:
• Created acupuncture.
• Agricultural based.• Northern crops wheat
and millet.• Southern crop rice.
• Land divided into small plots.
• Plots owned by a nobles.
• Farmed by peasant or slaves.
Social Stratification.
• Extended families; (multi-generations living in the same household.
• Oldest male was head of the house.
• Marriage often an economic and political tool to promote power.
• Land passed from father to sons.
• Children required to be respectful, obedient, and never argue.
• Wrong actions brought disgrace and punishment to family.
• Fu Hao (Lady Hao), wife of Shang king Wu Ding served as a military general and high priestess.
That concludes Ancient China.
Any questions before the quiz on the next slide?