I. Themes

complex urban societies in river valleys: lost and found: myth of origins *

II. Lost and Found

• myths of origins
  
  
• archaeology
• map*
• Shansi province: Xia artifacts
  
  
• Neolithic artifacts: Yangshao and Longshan pottery
  
  
• Anyang artifacts Shang dynasty
  
  
• source link for images
  
  

III. Chinese Culture

• Environment
• agriculture
  
• regional diversity
  
• ancestors and elites: Book of Songs
  
  
• Socio-political Development
• complex urban society
  
  
• family, society and patriarchy
  
  
• government:
• Mandate of Heaven (T`ien)
  
  
• Zhou Temple of Heaven *
  
  
• Beliefs and Values

Heaven, Earth, and Man Dao Yang and Yin animism ancestors, oracles: Shang oracle bones feng shui, I-Ching

IV. Comparisons

• issues:
  
  
• mind-map
• for next week: T&E ch. 6 Americas and Oceania, Encounters Popol Vuh (ch. 2) and online Kumulipo