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Bronze Age China Vocabulary • Anyang Shang Dynasty • Earthenware • Calligraphy • Shaman • Taotie Lost Wax Method Piece Mold Casting

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Page 1: Bronze Age China Vocabulary Anyang Shang Dynasty Earthenware Calligraphy Shaman Taotie Lost Wax Method Piece Mold Casting

Bronze Age China

Vocabulary

• Anyang• Shang Dynasty• Earthenware• Calligraphy

• Shaman• Taotie• Lost Wax Method• Piece Mold Casting

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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

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Earthenware Vases, Majiayao culture, Gansu

Province, China, 3000-2500 BCE•Earthenware, stoneware, porcelain

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Fang Ding, Henan

Province, China, ca. 1200 BCE

•Tomb of Lady Hao, Royal burials at Anyang•Shamanistic culture•Taotie•Piece mold casting

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Fang Ding, Shang

Dynasty, China, Ca. 1150 BCE

•Taotie

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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

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Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi, Shaanxi Province, China, ca. 210 BCE

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