1. Art and Education
1.1. Sumerians
1.2. Shang/Zhou
1.2.1. The Shang were skilled workers in bone, jade, ceramics, stone, wood, shells, and bronze.
2. science and Technology
2.1. Sumerians
2.2. Shang/Zhou
2.2.1. Bronze
3. Government and Leaders
3.1. Sumerians
3.2. Shang/Zhou
4. Social Structure and Family Life
4.1. Sumerians
4.2. Shange/Zhou
5. Geography and Agriculture
5.1. Sumerians
5.2. Shange/Zhou
5.2.1. The Shane, internally, Han dynasty rule has been the most tranquil period in the history of ancient China, but externally the Chinese empire has expanded greatly.
5.2.2. The Zhou villages surrounded around by small farms.
6. Religion
6.1. Sumerians
6.2. Shang/Zhou
6.2.1. Shang dynasty was polytheistic, meaning the people worshiped many gods. Ancestor worship was also very important to the Shang, it was thought that the success of crops and health were based on the happiness of dead ancestors.
7. Economy and Trade
7.1. Sumerians
7.1.1. Shang/Zhou
7.2. Shang/Zhou
7.2.1. •The Eastern Zhou period was one of political fragmentation with the power of the Zhou in decline; it is divided by historians into two sub-periods knows as the Spring and Autumn Period (770-c.480 BCE), named after an historical chronicle kept during the period, and the Warring States Period (c.480-221 BCE). Confucius was alive at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and argued for a restoration of the social and political order of the earlier Western Zhou period