Where we’ve been and where we are going

Chapter 17: Racial and Cultural Beginnings

Homo subspecies of China
Northern Mongoloid Race
The Effect of Climatic Changes upon Human Evolution
Recent Ice Ages
Mongoloid Race develops in isolation
Lake Baikal
Ice age cultures survive on lower coastal plains
Beringian culture spreads south
Cultural collision with indigenous

Chapter 18: Neolithic China, the Yangshao

Painted Pottery Culture: 5000-2500 BC
Early agriculture 5000 BC
A sudden emergence, no antecedents
Neolithic Culture-Complex of Eurasia
Invasion & Eastward Migrations
Cultural Diffusion from the West
External Stimulation, Internal Development
The Yangshao: a Classic Neolithic Agri-Culture
Neolithic Pottery motifs
Specifically Yangshao
Decline of painted pottery

Chapter 19: The Longshan

Black Pottery Culture: 2500 BC-1000 BC
Archaeological evidence
Longshan culture, an indigence emergence?
Longshan nomadic invaders or local development
China and outside influence
Questions
Our Answers
The following Shang culture, a continuation of Longshan

Chapter 20A: Mythical and Legendary China

History of legendary history
Written down in the Chou dynasty 2000 years after the fact
Discovery of historic Shang gives credence to legends
Chou point of view
Longshan culture the beginning of traditional Chinese culture

20B: Mythical god-kings

P’an Ku, first man, first ruler
Followed by legendary emperors, Suî Jên & Fu Hsi
Shên Nung, the Divine Farmer, introduced agriculture
Huang Ti, the Yellow Emperor
The Three Sovereigns

20C: Legendary dynasties

The Xia dynasty (2205-1765 BC?)
The Shang dynasty (1765-1122 BC?)

20D: Quotes