Shang China Maida Zahid Ebele Obigbo Kierra Ward

Shang China Maida Zahid, Ebele Obigbo, Kierra Ward, America Resendiz,

Specialized Labor In Shang China Women and Men were relatively unequal. -Men spent most of their days in the fields, hunting, or fishing. Women work included indoor activities like wine making, weaving, and cultivation working of silkworms. -Women were known to be lower than men and subjected to worn and men were to marry multiple women to bring family clans together. -At the top of the Social pyramid we'd the elite and royalty. At the bottom were the peasants. The royalty and elite were buried with bronze and ritual vessels on special occasions the peasants that built the tomb would be buried alive with the royalty.

Complex Institutions -Believed in May Gods with one supreme God, Shangti. Shanti was a “great ancestor” The people of Shang China found meaning of life through ancestors and so they followed their footsteps. - Religion did change many times through dynastic cycle -Land produced more food than needed, which was used for enterprise.

Record keeping -influenced by intellectual leaders -Tang Dynasty (618 -907 CE) known as the greatest imperial dynasty in ancient Chinese history , established the Shang dynasty (1600 -1046 BCE)

Advanced technology -worshiped Oracle bones, which were from a shoulder blade of an oxen; then people would use them for divination. People wrote questions in the bone, then as it cracked in fire the answers would appear

Cities The farming of millet, wheat, rice, and barley crops provided the major sources of food, but hunting was not uncommon. The trade routes of Shang are mainly around the capital and around the major rivers, the Yellow River and Yangtze River. Traders rarely traded internationally due to the fact that they avoided foreigners. Also they traded items made by artisans and sculptors. Many of these items were made out of bronze. When building their cities they used a technique used Hangtu which involves compacting soil into a hard base upon and were then built up using the same process used for walls. One city that followed this technique is Erligang in Zhengzhou.

Art/Monument Building In the center of the city there was a big palace or temple on a high earth platform. The bronze zun elephant is a very ancient and well known piece of art. The zun is a large and wide cup. It is made out of bronze working because at the time bronze was common. Also, the elephant is a symbol of prudence, wisdom, and strength.