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 BCE earliest known dynasty. Yellow River valley

Earthenware Vases, Majiayao culture, Gansu Province, China, BCE Earthenware, stoneware, porcelain

Chinese Calligraphy Bone ScriptBronze Script Regular Script, Calligraphy

Fang Ding, Henan Province, China, ca BCE Tomb of Lady Hao, Royal burials at Anyang Shamanistic culture Taotie Piece mold casting

Fang Ding, Shang Dynasty, China, Ca BCE Taotie

Qin Dynasty BCE Warring States Period ( 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