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  • The reorganization of the élite in late western Zhou (ca. 850 BC)
  • Distinctions of rank and gender within territorial ruling lineages (ca. 1000-650 BC)
  • A north Chinese community (ca. 800-450 BC) : demography and ranking
  • Clan differences within the Zhou culture sphere (ca. 1050-500 BC)
  • Ethnic contrasts within the Zhou culture sphere (ca. 1050-350 BC)
  • An expanding society (ca. 1050-250 BC)
  • The eastern Zhou religious transformation (ca. 600-221 BC)
  • The separation of the higher and lower élites (ca. 750-221 BC)
  • The merging of the lower élite with the commoner classes (ca. 600-221 BC).