Practice Mesopotamia 1
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- Intellectual/Artistic
- Could you tell me abt the Shang Dynasty's intellectual side?
- Yeah, sure. They created a writing system that consisted of pictures called caligrapgy,
- Artisans used kaolin to make pottery, and the Shang also raised silkworms to weave thread into silk cloth.
- Wait...like the bug?
- Yep! And, their tombs were furnished with jade, stone, and bronze.
- Wow, thanks for telling me that. I'll tell you a little about the Chou Dynasty.
- Philosophy was taught, and the type was Confucianism. Some of Confucius's early works were put into works called the Five Classics.
- Oh, I had no idea. I'll also tell you some what the Han Dynasty did.
- The Han Dynasty wrote the first dictionary. They also performed martial arts, instruments, danced, and told stories on mythology.
- Wow, I never heard any of this. i've got one last dynasty for you called the T'ang Dynasty.
- The T''ang Dynasty had painters and sculptures who created new styles of expression. They also had scholars who wrote more encyclopedias and histories.
- Oh yeah, and I heard they created printing which helped the production of more books.
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