The Shang Dynasty
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The Shang Dynasty1766 BCE – 1027 BCE
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Writing • The Shang Dynasty was
the first dynasty in China to communicate with writing.
• Some Chinese writing evolved from pictographs created during the Shang Dynasty period.
• About 4500 characters have been found, and 1000 can be connected to Chinese writing today.
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Society • The Shang people
were ruled by a king who was believed to be a descendant of the supreme god, Shang Ti.
• As the son of god he was thought to have the divine right to rule; this was called the “mandate of heaven”.
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Society• The king made many
of his decisions by casting oracle bones. The question would be written on a piece of ox bone or tortoise shell and cracked using high temperatures. The cracks would be read as saying: yes, no, lucky, or unlucky.
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Society• Shang society was
divided into classes: the king (also religious leader), nobles (war leaders and land owners), crafts people and merchants, and farmers (the largest amount of people), and finally slaves.
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Society
• Farmers provided food for the country, helped by working on the great buildings of the kingdom, and were soldiers during times of war.
• Slaves were often prisoners of war, and they worked under threat of death.
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Society • Crafts people worked with
bronze and jade. They were skilled at making weapons, tools, jewellery, pottery, and fine silk cloth.
• Merchants used rice or cowrie shells as money. Metal coins were invented in the 5th century BCE. At first they were long and thin, but later made round with a hole in the middle to string on belts.
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Bronze
Jade
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Bronze weapon from Shang Dynasty.
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Food• The basic food of the
Shang people was millet (a type of grain). Barley and wheat were also grown.
• Vegetables and beans were grown in gardens, fish were caught from the rivers, and animals such as deer and bears were hunted on the plains.
• By the Shang dynasty, the Chinese had domesticated pigs, dogs, goats, sheep, water buffalo, and some fowl.
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Food
• With the unpredictable river flooding or causing drought, the Chinese often experienced famine and starvation.
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Food
• People in Asia have been drinking tea for centuries.
• According to Chinese mythology, tea was invented in 2737 BCE, when the Chinese emperor was sitting beneath a tea tree and leaf fell into his boiling water.
• Tea became one of Chinas most valuable trading product between English traders and the Chinese.
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Tea? Or tea?
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Loose Leaf Tea
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Food
• Shang people used chopsticks for eating and cooking; they boiled, steamed, or stir fried their food.
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