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Military campaigns and territorial expansion under Shang rulers (c. 1600–1046 BCE)

1600 BCE - 1046 BCE

Legalist thought and its development across the Warring States (c.5th–3rd centuries BCE)

475 BCE - 207 BCE

Iconography and motifs in Shang art and ornamentation (c. 1600–1046 BCE)

1200 - 1976

Hegemony of Duke Huan of Qi and the interstate order (c.685–643 BCE)

685 BCE - 643 BCE

Funerary practices and major Shang tombs (c. 1300–1046 BCE)

1299 BCE - 2022

Formation and early expansion of the Shang state (c. 1600–1300 BCE)

1630 BCE - 1300 BCE

Evolution of writing: bronze inscriptions to early script in the Zhou Dynasty (c.11th–3rd centuries BCE)

1046 BCE - 300 BCE

Enfeoffment and the feudal order of early Western Zhou (c.1046–900 BCE)

1046 BCE - 900 BCE

Economic and agricultural change in Zhou states: iron, land use, and monetization (c.8th–3rd centuries BCE)

221 - 800

Eastern Zhou (771–256 BCE)

771 BCE - 249 BCE

Duke of Zhou: regency, campaigns and institutional reforms (c.1042–1000 BCE)

1046 BCE - 1035 BCE

Discovery and scholarly study of oracle bones (1899–present)

1899 - 2024

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