The Shang Dynasty

honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the spirits of the dead

• bronze

• oracle bones

• Anyang

• ancestor worship

location where ruins were found from the Shang dynasty, China’s first civilization

• Anyang

• bronze

• clans

• designs

a strong metal alloy made from copper

• chapter

• bronze

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• military

one section of a book

• designs

• oracle bones

• clans

• chapter

one of the first Chinese dynasties, ruled from 1700 to 1122 B.C.E.

• Xe Dynasty

• Shang Dynasty

• Zao Dynasty

• Han Dynasty

a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king’s ancestors

• oracle bones

• whale bones

• zebra bones

• sea shells

relating to the army

• clans

• military

• designs

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to grow larger

• military

• clans

• chapter

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a pattern that is used for an artistic purpose

• ancestor worship

• Anyang

• designs

• bronze

a large group of family members and friends

• clan

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• military

• Shang Dynasty