The Shang Dynasty: Bronze, Jade and Oracle Bones

Categories: History, Key Stage 2
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About Course

Travel back more than 3,000 years to ancient China. Children find out who the Shang were, how archaeologists rediscovered them through ‘dragon bones’, what oracle bones tell us about early Chinese writing and beliefs, and what treasures such as bronze dings and Fu Hao’s tomb reveal.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Place the Shang Dynasty on a timeline of the earliest civilisations
  • Explain how oracle bones were used and why they are important evidence
  • Describe Shang bronze and jade objects and what they tell us
  • Think like an archaeologist about sources and what they can and cannot tell us

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • Who Were the Shang?
  • Oracle Bones and the First Chinese Writing
  • Bronze, Jade and the Tomb of Fu Hao

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