Transcript shang dynasty

PREHISTORIC CHINA
Yangshao
• Began 10,000 B.C.E
• Settled near the Huang He (Yellow) River
in north central China.
• Were farmers in China
• Had houses built partially underground
with plastered floors and roofs supported
by wooden beams
• Created painted pottery with geometric
designs on it They used a kiln but no
potter’s wheel
Yangshao
Lungshan
• About 3000 B.C.E
• Settled near the Huang He (Yellow) River in
northeast China.
• Farmers that raised cattle, sheep, pigs, and
dogs and grew wheat and millet
• Eventually settled in southern China to grow rice
• Leaders arose to complete projects to control
flooding
• Created black pottery using a kiln and a potter’s
wheel
• First to harvest silk from silkworms to weave
fabric which became a major export of China
Lungshan
Xia
• Last of the Prehistoric settlements around 2000 B.C.E.
(ruled for about 300 years)
• Settled near the Huang He (Yellow) River in north central
China.
• Know about them from legends and eventually what
archeologists have found
• Had bronze weapons and tools
• Were farmers
• Made pottery
• Rulers communicated with spirits for help and guidance
• Defeated by the Shang, China’s first dynasty
Could eventually become China’s first dynasty when
and if more evidence is found about them
Xia
The Shang Dynasty
A Shang dynasty tortoise shell with pictographs. The Shang dynasty is
the earliest Chinese dynasty supported by archeological and written
evidence.
The ruins of Yin date back to the Shang dynasty. A number of tombs
were discovered at this site, but only one, that of Fuo Hao, was
undisturbed.
A jade carving discovered in
Fuo Hao's tomb. Fuo Hao
was a wife of King Wu Ding
during the Shang dynasty
and is reported to have
served as a military leader.
Her tomb was untouched
when discovered in 1976.
Evidence of human sacrifice is common in elite tombs of the Shang
dynasty.
A Shang dynasty bronze zun or wine vessel, shaped in the form of an
elephant with uplifted trunk.
A Chinese archeologist works at a newly discovered pit of chariots and
horses in the ruins of Yin. Five of the seven pits are arranged in a line,
with chariots and horses facing eastward.
SHANG DYNASTY
1) 1700-1050 BCE
2) On the Huang He River in the North China Plain
3) The Shang dynasty is important because . . .
CHINA’S FIRST DYNASTY
4) A series of rulers from the same family
5) From the tombs and artifacts we have found
ZHOU DYNASTY
1) farmers
lived in the Wei Valley on the
Huang He River
2) In 1050 BCE Wu the Martial and the Zhou
conquered the Shang
3) China’s longest lasting dynasty
4) Tian – impersonal power (heaven) worshiped
by the Zhou that demanded right behavior and
good government
Mandate of Heaven – getting heaven’s (tian)
support if you ruled well
KING
owned all of the land and granted Nobles complete
control of the land given them, protects and defends the
land and people, govern in the interest of the people
NOBLES
PEASANTS
controls the land given to him from the king which
consisted of a walled town and the farms around it, must
give the king a portion of what the peasants produce from
his land, must send the king soldiers in times of war
work the farmland and give the noble some of what
they produce/make, are the soldiers
6) Dialects are different forms of the same language
7) Communication from region to region was difficult
because people could not always understand each
other when they spoke
8) Expanded the use of writing so no matter how
a word was pronounced in the different regions
of China, its written form would be the same and
understood. This allows China’s culture to grow
and spread.