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Patterns: The Fall 1. Leadership crisis: Government becomes corrupt. Leader may be distant, incompetent, insulated by attendants or uninterested. 2. There are foreign threats. This may take the form of mass immigration or military threat. 3. Economic collapse – inflation, depression, money devaluation, disruption of vital trade routes. 4. Through time, wealth becomes consolidated. The gap between rich and poor widens. The tax burden is shifted to the lower classes. Tension between classes increases. 5. Empire breaks up into smaller political units
Pattern 1. Leadership royal line broken 8 th cen. BCE power of the Zhou court gradually diminished King Zhou Pingwang’s (770 BCE) reign onwards, the Zhou kings ruled in name only true power lying in the hands of regional nobles declaring themselves to be independent kings Crisis
Page 1: Rise Great Leader Achievements Fall
Page 4: “The Enduring Zhou” Early Zho
Page 9 and 10: Pattern: The Rise 1. Great Leader
Page 11 and 12: Rise of the Zhou Trade networks --
Page 14 and 15: II. Great Leader of the Zhou
Page 16 and 17: Mandate of Heaven The take over of
Page 18 and 19: III. Apex of the Zhou
Page 20 and 21: Pattern 1. “Pax” of the Perman
Page 22 and 23: Pattern 3. Bureaucracy Corvee labo
Page 24 and 25: Limited contact with other cultures
Page 26 and 27: Confucianism Starts during Zhou d
Page 28 and 29: Source: Big-time Agriculture Ferti
Page 30: Pattern 6. Lingua Franca Chinese ch
Page 33 and 34: The Enduring Zhou System: nobles o
Page 38 and 39: Qin people Pattern 2. Foreign Migr
Page 40 and 41: Pattern 4. Gap between Large popul
Page 42 and 43: nobles did not even bother to symbo

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