The most important accomplishments of the Yangshao include silk production, the erection of walled cities, and unpainted pottery made on wheels. Unlike Yangshao pottery, Longshan creations were simple polished black but because of the use of the wheel their design and durability represent technological progress in neolithic China. The erection of packed earth city walls with moats surrounding some of them shows that Longshan society became more urban in character and in need of protection against nearby villages. Cities also suggest social hierarchies, role distinction and possibly income disparity. One of the hallmarks of Yangshao culture was the organized, systematic cultivation of silkworms for the production of one of the products that would soon characterize Chinese culture and economy. The Shang represent one of the first known Chinese dynasties, and therefore demonstrate the step-by-step development of ancient Chinese society from more simple to more complex social, political, and economic...

Also located along the Eastern part of the Yellow River, the Shang dynasty period signals the first development of the Chinese written language. Pictographic characters were etched mainly into turtle shell and animal bones. Bronze was developed during the Shang dynasty period: between 1600 and 1100 BCE. During the Shang dynasty methods of divination using animal bones and religious cosmologies also emerged, representing key developments and accomplishments in Chinese society.
Ancient Chinese history reveals a chronological development of societies that grew increasingly more advanced technologically and more sophisticated socially and intellectually. Remnants of tools and artifacts such as pottery shows how the cultures lived and worked. Agriculture and the tools used to cultivate crops also reveals a lot about the stages of development in a specific region. Finally, the evolution of written language, methods of divination, and of religion is generally associated with increased…