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| 7280903208 | veneration | Shang practice of honoring their dead ancestors. | 0 | |
| 7280903209 | oracle bones | Ancient Chinese nobles sought to tell the future by writing on bone fragments or pieces of turtle shell and throwing those bones into a fire; the fortune seekers saw messages about the future in the cracks that formed. | 1 | |
| 7280903210 | bronze | An alloy of copper and tin; bronze weapons that gave Shang foot soldiers and charioteers a tactical advantage in combat. | 2 | |
| 7280903211 | Mythical Period | The very earliest period in traditional Chinese history when—according to legend—the Xia dynasty ruled China | 3 | |
| 7280903212 | Shang Dynasty | The first historically confirmed dynasty, supposedly began when the Shang overthrew the Xia sometime around 1760 BCE. | 4 | |
| 7280903213 | loess | Both banks of the Yellow River had massive amounts of a fertile sediment that allowed Shang-era farmers to grow a large surplus of food. | 5 | |
| 7280903214 | Zhou Dynasty | Overthrew the Shang Dynasty in 1046 BCE. | 6 | |
| 7280903215 | divination | Predicting the future using oracle bones. | 7 | |
| 7280903216 | I-Ching | The Book of Changes—was either written or compiled at this same time, around 1250 to 1150 BCE. It is a book of divination with roots going back to the fortune tellers of the rural areas and their oracle bones. | 8 | |
| 7280903217 | Yin Xu | Site near Angyang where excavations have revealed instruments from the Shang period such as the ocarina—a wind instrument—drums, and cymbals. | 9 | |
| 7280903218 | feudal system | The Shang a system in which duties are tied to land ownership, with sharp class divisions based on clan birthright | 10 | |
| 7280903219 | Anyang | Important city that was a seat of governmental affairs for the surrounding areas. | 11 | |
| 7280903220 | animism | Shang religion based on the idea that everything has a soul. | 12 | |
| 7280903221 | shamanism | The belief in shamans who have the ability to communicate with the spiritual world; ancestor worship; and divination. | 13 |
