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1 .       Agriculture took hold in China in about 4000 B.C. to such an extent that population densities began to rise. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       One way of disposing of enemy dead was to deposit their bodies in their wells. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       The first rulers, or nobility, in Chinese village society were probably great warriors as well as spiritual leaders. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       By 3250 B.C., Longshan culture had developed along the east coast and produced wheel pottery. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       The archaeology of the Longshan culture shows a pattern of peaceful coexistence between neighboring villages, but a high level of warfare between those of the Longshan culture and their southern neighbors. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       Scapulimancy is a medical practice long held by the Chinese for repairing the damaged shoulders of farmers who toiled so greatly in the fields of the Huang Ho River valley. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       Shang-type remains are stratified on top of Longshan occupation levels at many places in northern China. These Shang remains indicate a much simpler material culture, a more enlightened spiritual environment with a complementary lack of warfare. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       The fortification of Ao, the Shang capital, was so large that it would have taken 10,000 workers laboring 330 days a year for no fewer than 18 years to erect the fortification alone. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       One nearly egalitarian feature of Chinese nobles was the practice of living in the same "neighborhood" as their feudal serf population. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Just like the early American civilizations (e.g., Maya), the Chinese civilization of the Shang era had not developed the wheel and thus had to rely on human power for all traction, including plowing. [Hint]

 
 






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