p3ch5states

Name: matthew forsberg

 * **Themes** || **How does this theme apply to your civilization?** ||
 * Political Structures and forms of governance || * Shang rulers relied on a large corps of political allies.* The shang state rested on vast networks of walled towns whose local rulers recognized the authority of shang kings.* During the course of the dynasty the Shang kings may have controlled one thousand or more towns. ||
 * Empires || * As agriculture population expanded and villages and towns fluorished throughout the yellow river and yangzi valley.
 * Originally the the settlements looked after themselves and organized local states that maintained order in small teritories ||
 * Nations and nationalism || NA ||
 * Revolts and revolutions || * The rulers fought to control the peasents
 * The chinese and the nomadic peasents always had tense relations.
 * They offten engaded in bitter wars ||
 * Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations || NA ||