The Shang and Zhou dynasties shared an interest in education, domestic family structure and socioeconomic segregation but differed in their academic interests and approaches to government. While the Shang dynasty encouraged the arts and humanities, the Zhou family promoted science and mathematics. The Shang clan ruled with a system of central governance, while the Zhou established independent feudal states, vesting power in local rulers instead.
Because they were tolerant of different beliefs and encouraged trade between different cultures along the Silk Road, ensuring the safety of traders traveling along the trade routes.
The Agrarian Era is one of the most important points in the human history and development. In this era, the humans changed their lifestyle from nomadic to settled one because they were able to produce surplus of food. This resulted in great and rapid development and progress of the human societies. As the humans had much more spare time, they started to occupy themselves with lot of other things, such as science, arts, building, resulting in an explosion of inventions and advancements in a very short period of time, and the process was constantly accelerating and the human kind was moving forward quicker and quicker.