Objectives:

-Examine how the Chinese explained their early history.

-Describe how the Shang government and economy were organized.

- Identify the religious beliefsn held by the Shang.

- Explain why the Shang dynasty collasped.

Yu established the Xia over the Huang Riverregion starting in about 2200B.C.

Little evidence

Great advances Improved methodsof agriculture.

Written symbols

1750B.C. and 1500B.C. The Shang invaded theHuand River Valley

China’s 1st dynasty

Introduced Irrigation system

Flood control system

Across 40.000 square miles

Capital near the city of Anyang

Complex bureaucracy

War chariots

Bronze weapons

Based on agriculture (millet and rice crops)

Domestic animals (pigs and chicken for meat)

Raise silkworms

Wove silk cloth

Merchants and Artisants

Artisants worked in bone, ivory and jade

Ceramic Art

Kaolin, white clay for pottery.

Based on the SUN

Based on the movements of the MOON

Record private and public events

Birth of a child

Death of a ruler

Lunar month about 29 days long

12 lunar month made 1 year

Animism

Dragons

Natural Gods

Shangdi

Sacrifices

Priests

Oracle bones

Dialects

Symbols

Ideographs

Shang rulers

Calligraphy

Gobi desert and the Tian Shan foothills

China Proper

Di Xi

Zhou

DEFINE AND IDENTIFY

Bureaucracy:

Animism:

Oracle bones:

Dialects:

Calligraphy:

Xia:

Shang:

Zhou:

SUMMARIZING. Create a written description

of the calendars, economy, government,

religion and forms of writting that developed

during the Shang dynasty.

SHANG DYNASTY

CALENDARS

ECONOMY

GOVERNMENT

RELIGION

WRITING