The Zhou Period - China's Descent Into War And The Ensuing Intellectual 'Cambrian Explosion'

Time to meet the people who took over after the Shang. The Western Zhou dynasty starts us off with a brief period of unifiication before cracks started appearing at the seams as states grew more independent. Then we'll explore the Eastern Zhou period, which is the time period across which China fell into all out war and incredible minds put to words ideologies of lifeways and governance that have etched paths in many psyches to this day. We'll meet many of these characters who are credited with articulating the basic forms of thought that have sustained and fructified greatly ever since.