China Test #1 Flashcards

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Prehistoric China - emergence of civilization

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clearly documented in the north china plain

but understood that developments in agri and bronze emerged in south china

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South China to North China

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Rice, pigs, chicken, water buffalo, bronze

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Yellow River (Plain)

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loess was inexhaustible if water was present, advantage of north, as great as Nile, Tigris and Euphrates

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Pottery

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Neolithic societies in NORTH China were making pottery early(er) as Southwest Asia.

Suggests necessity of storage, which suggests agriculture, surplus, and division of labor.

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5
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Agriculture in the North

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was probably an independent development.

millet, sheep, goats, pigs, fish
not much rice/water buffalo till 1500 BCE (not much water)

wheat, barley (diffused 4000 - 1000 BCE) and rice replaced millet by 1000 BCE as staple

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6
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Invention of water techniques

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river valley + delta farming by 2000 BCE

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7
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Painted Pottery Cultures

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(banpo people)
Yangshao, Longshao
geometric red/black design, no wheel

lasted until 1500 BCE before merging into the Shang (literate, metal-using, city building)

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Yangshao

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from Gansu to Henan where it overlapped with Black Pottery (Longshan) culture –> wheel made, kiln fired (1000+ C)

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