In this episode, the Shang Dynasty falls and the Zhou Dynasty rises to take its place. But being the faction at the top is harder than it looks, and over time the Zhou suffer a gradual decline. However, the political and philosophical ideas which they nurtured continue to influence East Asian thought today.
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08/06/20 • 13 min
A History of Japan - The Mandate of Heaven, Part 1
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Last season we talked about the Shang Dynasty and how they consolidated power through the belief that their ancestors had a special connection to Di, the principle deity in the ancient Chinese pantheon.
There are mountains of things we don’t know about the Shang Dynasty, and until fairly recently a lot of historians believed that the Shang were, themselves, little more than myth. This means that I don’t have a handy list of things that happened th
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