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Bronze Age China
Vocabulary
• Anyang• Shang Dynasty• Earthenware• Calligraphy
• Shaman• Taotie• Lost Wax Method• Piece Mold Casting
Ancient China •Neolithic China: Yellow River, 5000 BCE
–Use of jade and clay for artistic works–Earliest creators of pottery–No evidence of metals–Some domestication of animals
•Bronze Age China: Territory divided into smaller states
•Shang Dynasty: ca. 1500-1050 BCE earliest known dynasty. Yellow River valley
Earthenware Vases, Majiayao culture, Gansu
Province, China, 3000-2500 BCE•Earthenware, stoneware, porcelain
Fang Ding, Henan
Province, China, ca. 1200 BCE
•Tomb of Lady Hao, Royal burials at Anyang•Shamanistic culture•Taotie•Piece mold casting
Fang Ding, Shang
Dynasty, China, Ca. 1150 BCE
•Taotie
Qin Dynasty 221-206 BCE
• Warring States Period (475-221 BCE): between the Zhou Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty. Time of political and intellectual upheaval.
• Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of China and Qin Dynasty leader, controlled all rival states
• Commissioned the Great Wall which defended China against nomadic people of the north, the Huns
• Standardized writing, measures, coinage, centralized bureaucracy
• Repressed schools of thought that contradicted Legalism: enforced obedience to the state and upheld strict laws and punishments
Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi, Shaanxi Province, China, ca. 210 BCE