Ships that were narrow and could navigate thin waterways. These ships were called battering ships because they would ram into other ships to sink them.
First Zhou rulers believed that when someone overthrows a dynasty, the loser loses the dynasty and the winner is now in control. So when they overthrew the Shang, the Shang has lost china (dynasty) and the Zhous are now in control of the Dynasty.
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