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| Describes the Zhou conquest of the Shang, as just noble warriors defeating a sadistic king and his irresponsible followers. |
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| The theory that heaven gives the king a mandate to rule only as long as he rules in the interests of the people. |
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| The lower ranks of Chinese aristocracy, these men could serve in either military or civil capacities. |
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| The earliest collection of Chinese poetry, it provides glimpses of what life was like in the early Zhou Dynasty. |
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| The Zhou rose against and defeated the Shang |
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| When the Book of Documents were organized |
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| There were two hundred lords with their own domains |
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| Zhou King was killed by an alliance of non-Chinese tribesmen and Zhou vassals |
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| Cities began appearing all across northern China, as social and economic change quickened |
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| The Warring States Period |
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