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Where does our knowledge of China come from?
Sources for China
Two kinds of source
1. Written records
Officials recorded events
Example:
Historiographers
2. Oracles
Bones heated till they crack
Example:
Animal bones
Tortoise shells
Source
What it gives us
Historical records
China has a
very large number
of historical records, because officials whose job was to write history -
historiographers
- recorded events
Oracles
The
earliest source of information
about China
- A historiographer is an official appointed to write history.
- Abundance means a very large quantity.
