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Title: Shang Dynasty (The Bronze Age)


1
Shang Dynasty (The Bronze Age)
2
Quick Review
  • What continent is China located on?
  • Name the two major rivers.
  • What isolated China from the rest of the world?

3
Shang
  • It was the first dynasty
  • Established by the 1500s BC
  • Lasted 700 years
  • 30 different kings ruled during this dynasty
  • Strongest in the Huang He Valley
  • Ruled a broad area of Northern China
  • They moved their capital numerous times to avoid
    floods or attacks by their enemy
  • Known for human sacrifices

4
Cities
  • Had protective walls that were 30 ft high, 65 ft
    thick and 4 miles long
  • Inside the walls lived the Royal Family, priests
    and warriors
  • Artisans lived outside
  • the walls in mud houses
  • that were built up against
  • the wall
  • Farmers lived in villages
  • outside the walls

5
Shang Social Order
  • Shang had an organized social order
  • 1. Royal Family and Nobles
  • 2. Warriors
  • 3. Artisans
  • 4. Farmers
  • 5. Slaves

6
Top level-1
  • The King-Was at the center of Shang political and
    religious life
  • Lived in large homes made of
  • Mud and wood
  • Hunting was a favorite past-
  • time

7
1
  • Nobles- job was to advise the
  • king, they owned a lot of land
  • that they passed down to their
  • Sons
  • Lived in large, brick homes with tiled roofs
  • Homes were lavishly decorated and furnished

8
Level 2
  • Warriors-fought for the
  • dynasty
  • Wore bronze armor
  • Used chariots made of
  • bronze and wood
  • Each chariot had a driver,
  • spearman and an archer
  • Carried daggers, spears,
  • and axes

9
Level 3-Artisans
  • Lived in groups outside the city walls
  • Made weapons, pottery, tools, clothing

10
Level 4 Farmers
  • Most people were
  • farmers
  • Worked long hours and had little money
  • Most of the money they made had to be paid to the
    government in taxes
  • They didnt own the land
  • Had to give the nobles part of the food they grew

11
Level 5 Slaves
  • Lowest rank
  • They were an important
  • source of labor

12
Advances
  • Came up with Chinas first writing system-a lot
    of the
  • symbols used today
  • in Chinese language
  • come from those
  • made during the
  • Shang Dynasty

13
Oracle Bones
  • Priests carve
  • questions about the
  • future on bones
  • They put the bones over a fire and the bones
    crack
  • The priests thought they could read the cracks
    to predict the future

14
Advances
  • Beautiful bronze
  • containers for cooking and religious ceremonies
  • Axes
  • Knives
  • Ornaments from jade
  • War chariots
  • Bow
  • Bronze body armor
  • Calendar based on the cycle of the moon

15
A tradition that is still practiced today
  • Ancestor Worship-worshiping and praying to family
    members who are deceased
  • Offer gifts, such as meat or wine to ancestors to
    show respect
  • If you didnt offer gifts, natural disaster would
    occur
  • Would often build temples for ancestors
  • Inside the home their was and altar to pray to
    their ancestors
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