The Zhou Dynasty
What was the Mandate of Heaven?
What's a Dynasty?
A succession of family members who rule a country.
Why was the Nile critical for the survival of the Egyptians?
What are the 3 sisters?
Corn, squash and beans. They grew these crops frequently and traded them.
What was a Feudal System?
Nobles owned the land and Peasants worked it and paid tribute to the nobles.
Talk about the most common crops and farm animals of this Dynasty.
Rice and Pigs.
Participated in long-distance trade across Asia.
Artisans specialized in making trade goods and Merchants traded goods back and forth.
What were the 6 social classes in Ancient Egypt's society?
Pharaoh, nobles and priests, scribes and warriors, artisans and merchants, peasants, and slaves.
Who named the Olmec?
The Aztec
What was the Dao?
The "Law". The right way to live. Daoists believed that if all people ceased striving for glory, riches, and attainment, there would be no war, no envy, and lessened suffering.
Describe the religion in this Dynasty.
Polytheistic.
They worshiped their ancestors.
Religion and state power were closely connected.
Describe agriculture in Ancient Egypt
It was based on pastoralism. The most important crop was wheat and they raised cows for food.
What is the meaning of "Olmec"?
The Rubber People (Because they made rubber and traded it throughout Mesoamerica)
What was filial Piety?
The belief that family is the most important and elders should be respected and served.
What were the 6 social classes in this Dynasty?
Kings, nobles (Aristocrats), Warriors, traders, peasants and Slaves
Describe Architecture in Ancient Egypt.
They build complex tombs and temples.
The pyramids were the greatest buildings for over 4000 years.
What was agriculture like for the Olmecs?
They cleared fields using the slash and burn technique. They planted crops until the land was not fertile anymore and then found a different place.
Talk about silk and bronze in this era.
Silk was one of the most important products of the time and opened trade to the west with other civilizations.
Bronze was use for crafts and making weapons.
What was the Oracle Bone?
a bone used for writing and practice divination (to know what would happen in the future)
What was the divine right of kings?
The pharaoh is the representation of Horus on earth.
Talk about the Ball game and the Stone heads
Archaeological evidence shows that they originated the Mesoamerican practices of Ballgame—a popular game in the pre-Columbian Americas played with balls made from solid rubber.
Seventeen monumental stone representations of human heads sculpted from large boulders. The heads date from at least before 900 BCE. They represent portraits of powerful individual Olmec rulers, perhaps carved to commemorate their deaths.