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3 days ago · China - Feudalism, Zhou Dynasty, Confucianism: The feudal states were not contiguous but rather were scattered at strategic locations surrounded by potentially dangerous and hostile lands.
3 days ago · China - Ancient Dynasties, Rituals, Oracle Bones: The name Zhou appears often in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang kingdom, sometimes as a friendly tributary neighbor and at other times as a hostile one.
5 days ago · The 15-year period that Wu designated as her "Zhou dynasty", considered in the context of nearly a half century of de facto and de jure rule (c. 654 –705), reveals a remarkable and still debated period of history.
1 day ago · Xi'an became a cultural and political center of China in the 11th century BC with the founding of the Zhou dynasty. The capital of Zhou was established in the twin settlements of Fengjing (灃京) and Haojing (鎬京), together known as Fenghao, located southwest of contemporary Xi'an.
5 days ago · Fenghao, one of the capitals of the Zhou Dynasty (1100-221BC), which replaced the Shang, was only 15 kilometers southwest of present day Xi'an. Fenghao was then the political, economic and cultural center of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
3 days ago · The Late Shang, also known as the Anyang period, is the earliest known literate civilization in China, spanning the reigns of the last nine kings of the Shang dynasty, beginning with Wu Ding in the second half of the 13th century BC and ending with the conquest of the Shang by the Zhou in the mid-11th century BC.
May 21, 2024 · Yijing, an ancient Chinese text, one of the Five Classics (Wujing) of Confucianism. The main body of the work, traditionally attributed to Wenwang (flourished 12th century bc), contains a discussion of the divinatory system used by the Zhou dynasty wizards. A supplementary section of “commentaries”.
