HIST 1010 Lecture 5: History Chapter 5
5 Feb 2019
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Indo-european nomads mixed with original inhabitants of india subcontinent between 1500-1600 bce. Vedic language use in hindu ritual and parts of india today. Parallel to thunder gods such as thor and zeus in other. Not an empire and doesn"t have a centralized empire. In other words i had to do it because shang is so terrible because they don"t worship ancestors . Earliest concept of the mandate of heaven. The leader has to rule with virtue or heaven will take back the dynasty and the leader will be overthrown. Justifies the power of whoever holds it. The zhou were very powerful but wasn"t highly centralized and ruler didn"t have absolute control. Regional lords were expected to control providences. Lords could come together and turn on the zhou. Pivotal period of the first millennium bce (roughly 800-200) when many major intellectual, philosophical, and religious systems that came to shape subsequent human society and culture emerged.
