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Shang Dynasty
Question | Answer | ||
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Government | Had a Monarch/ king | Used shells as currency | Shang kings had to have strong armies |
Religions | Performed human sacrifices when a new royal house was built | Human sacrifices were a part of burials | They used oracle bones to speak/ or ask for advise from their ancestors |
Stable Food Supply | Shang kings were buried with or near bronze vessels containing food | farmers worked small plots of land growing millet, wheat, barley, fruit, rice, and nuts. | |
Writing | inscriptions on oracle bones | used logographs which are characters that stand for words | |
Art & Archetecture | There were artisans whom worked with bronze, pottery, stone, and jade | The palace in Shang Capital City was built with mud-plastered walls and held up by wood posts | Had sculptures, ornaments,animal masks |
Technology | They had weapons and armor made from bronze and shells and they also had chariots | they had bronze workers who made the weapons and such | |
Social Structure | They had nobles, craftspeople, traders, farmers, and slaves. | They had six social classes that they where divided into |