According to Chinese tradition, Chinese civilization is 5,000 years old, though the ancient China of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou ...

The Shang Dynasty had seen the growth of ... which was to become a central idea in Chinese political history. The Zhou are the first to formalise the idea of the Mandate of Heaven: the Chinese ...

Those ancient sections date back to the late Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). Researchers believe that the joining of regional walls to create a single defensive structure against northern invasions ...