Landscape and Power in Early China
Subtitle: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045771 BC
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 4, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780521852722
Subjects: Asian archaeology; World history; Prehistory; Gardening/Plants; Gardening; Archaeology / Anthropology; China; Archaeology; Social Science / Archaeology; Landscape; History; Power (Social sciences)
First sentence: In the first month of 1045 BC, the Zhou troops and their western allies, after a long march east from the Zhou base in the Wei River valley, smashed the Shang army at a place called Muye and subsequently occupied the Shang capital in present-day Anyang.