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Zhou kings governed China much like Shang rulers.

The king led the government, ruling with the help of a(n)

___________. The king divided the kingdom into

___________. He assigned loyal ___________ to

govern each of the territories. These positions were

____________ —when an aristocrat died, a son or another

member of his family governed the territory.


Zhou kings introduced a new idea to Chinese government.

They claimed that the king’s right to rule came from the

___________. This is called the ___________. The

king must rule by the proper “Way,” known as the ___________.


Under Zhou kings, the Chinese developed new systems to

___________ the land. With a better water supply,

farmers were able to grow more crops than ever before.

China’s trade also expanded.__________ have found

pieces of Chinese silk in central Asia and as far away as

Greece. Their findings suggest that Chinese ___________

reached many different areas of the world.


Over time, the ___________ who ruled the territories of

the Zhou kingdom grew more powerful. These rulers began to

fight one another for power. These wars began in the 400s

B.C. and went on for nearly 200 years. Because each

aristocrat formed his own state, this time in China’s history is

called the “_____________.”