Transcript Chinese history: The Shang dynasty

Chinese history: The Shang
dynasty
By Siara Frazier
Questions & Answers
Q: What year did they choose
the the king?
A: 1,800 B.C
Q: How did they unite China?
A: They split up the rich and the
poor, some slaves were there
and many men were in the king’s
army.
Q: What were the writing
techniques called?
A: Sumerian and Egyptian
Shang dynasty’s history
 About 50,000 B.C modern day people came
from China who lived in caves and wore
leather.
By 4,000 B.C then they started to farm rice and
kept sheep and chickens.
By around 3,000 B.C they were using pottery.
By 2,000 B.C the shang dynasty had entered the
bronze age and had begun to use writing.
By about 1,800 B.C the shang dynasty most of
China and ruled it under one emperor.
About 1,100 B.C the Chou dynasty took over
Shang dynasty’s
architecture
About 1,500 B.C the shang dynasty built
buildings that look like the ones in China today
that you could tell they weren’t from West Asia
or Africa.
In the cities people lived in in rows of
rectangular houses laid out in rows, built out of
wood and rammed Earth.
In the middle of the city there was a big temple
or palace (architects aren’t sure if it is one or
the other) on a high platform.
An-yang was a big hall of pillars all the way
around it that was the size of a football field!
Shang dynasty palace
at Erilitou (picture from
www.kidpede.com)
Construction of the
shang palace or temple
of Panlongcheng
(picture from
www.kidepede.com )
Shang dynasty’s art
By about 2,000 B.C, people in China had
learned how to make bronze out of copper
and tin from people of the West Asia
Soon people began to make a lot of jars and
plaques (better known as flat pieces)
Some jars were plain
Some jars had a lot of fancy designs sticking
out of them.
Towards the end of the shang dynasty
around 1,200 B.C people began to write
messages on these jars and cups.
Shang bird (picture from
www.kidpede.com )
Shang elephant art
(picture from
www.kidpede.com )
Thanks for watching my
slide show!!!