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Can a Civilization Build Massive Public Works Without a Single Ruler? - Liangzhu and the Origins of Early Chinese Civilization | Sleepy Facts About History
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For four thousand years, no text remembered a society that built a massive walled city and an intricate network of earthen dams and canals in the wetlands of the lower Yangtze. This is the story of Liangzhu, a culture that flourished around five thousand years ago, a thousand years before the Shang dynasty. Without metal tools, wheeled carts, or a written language, the people of Liangzhu moved millions of cubic meters of earth by hand to manage water for rice agriculture and protect their…
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