What were the key factors that led to instability during the period of the Warring States in Zhou China? Which of these factors were most significant, and why?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Factors of Instability
1. as Zhou supremacy spread, the realm became increasingly decentralized
2. the impossibility of using magic to manage the state undermined royal authority
a. rituals to appease the gods became ever more elaborate
B. Longer-term problems more significant
1. wealth from Zhou trickled outward as a result of trade and outlying states grew more powerful and insubordinate
a. former empire transformed into jostling states
b. leadership among them was usually determined by war and, within states, by assassination and massacre
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