Politics

This period marked a big refine in Chinese history, as the dominant toolmaking the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical thing became iron by the end of the period. The Eastern Zhou period was believed to be the beginning of the Iron Age in China.

There was a considerable developing in agriculture with a consecutive increase in population. There were constantly fights between vassals to scramble for lands or other resources. People started using copper coins. Education was reported universal for civilians. The boundaries between the nobility and the civilians subsided. A revolutionary transformation of the society was taking place, to which the patriarchal clan system featured by the Zhou Dynasty could no longer adapt.