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Shang Dynasty

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Shang dynasty economy and long-distance trade networks (c. 1600–1046 BCE)

1046 - 1600

Royal lineage and reign chronology of Shang kings (traditional and archaeological) (c. 1600–1046 BCE)

1600 BCE - 1046 BCE

Religious rites, ancestor worship, and divination practices in the Shang (c. 1600–1046 BCE)

1600 BCE - 2006

Relations between the Shang and neighboring polities (c. 1600–1046 BCE)

1600 BCE - 1046 BCE

Oracle bone divination at Anyang (Yin) (c. 1250–1046 BCE)

1300 BCE - 2006

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

1600 BCE - 1046 BCE

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

1200 - 1976

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

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

1899 - 2024

Development of early Chinese script: oracle bones to bronze inscriptions (c. 1250–1046 BCE)

1300 BCE - 1993

Collapse of the Shang and the Zhou conquest (c. 1075–1046 BCE)

1100 BCE - 1039 BCE

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