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The Zhou ruled China for 800

years with the help of a
bureaucracy. How might giving
authority to local bureaucrats
weaken the Zhou kings?

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Answer:

In ancient China, the perennial challenges of ruling a very large territory , keeping cohesion and unity were already present and due to technological limitations, they were even bigger than they are today. In the kingdoms of ancient China, the feudal local lords, rich and powerful, had the real political power despite any sworn loyalty to the kings. The Zhou kings were kings but they did not control the feudal lords effectively, they were politically weak.

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