WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Zhou came into power by way of force, and after establishing their dominance brought China into a period of advanced technology that included using more iron to create better and stronger weapons. These years were the beginning of the Iron Age in China, which officially began around 600 CE.

Detailed explanation-2: -Trade was increased, towns grew up, coinage was developed, chopsticks came into use, and the Chinese writing system was created out of its primitive beginnings in the Shang period. There was also a great philosophical flowering: the schools of Confucianism, Daoism, and legalism developed in that period.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Zhou Dynasty made significant cultural contributions to agriculture, education, military organization, Chinese literature, music, philosophical schools of thought, and social stratification as well as political and religious innovations.

Detailed explanation-4: -What did the Zhou dynasty create with its new types of ironwork? They developed stronger weapons.

Detailed explanation-5: -Iron appeared in China toward the end of the period, during the Eastern Zhou dynasty.