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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. 1500-1050 BCE earliest known dynasty. Yellow River valley Earthenware Vases, Majiayao culture, Gansu Province, China, 3000-2500 BCE •Earthenware, stoneware, porcelain Fang Ding, Henan Province, China, ca. 1200 BCE •Tomb of Lady Hao, Royal burials at Anyang •Shamanistic culture •Taotie •Piece mold casting Fang Ding, Shang Dynasty, China, Ca. 1150 BCE •Taotie 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 Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi, Shaanxi Province, China, ca. 210 BCE