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Originally Posted by Zankou
Right, once you get to the Han empire you start getting some good written sources for history -- following the Qin burning of the books. Prior to that, however, you've got very little, and even what did remain of genuine Zhou era texts ... like the Zhou-yi ... was horrendously misunderstood by the Han, who were coming to it many centuries later, producing the hybrid abomination known as the I-Ching.
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Not all history are base on written down texts. There are plenty of artifacts that traced back to Xia dynasty and remains of their settlements. The Terra Cotta Warriors showed the world far more about the Qin than any written down text.