The Shang were skilled builders, artists and craftsmen, and one of the best ways to discover how they lived is by studying the artefacts they made. Just as ancient objects enable us to step back into the world of the people who made them, the stories people told can reveal what they thought about their world. This book combines facts about the ancient Chinese with photographs of the artefacts they left behind and the stories they shared with each other to present a full picture of life at the time.

 

This book is part of a book series called Facts And Artefacts .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-11 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .

Tim Cooke is the author of National Geographic's Ancient Aztecs: Archaeology Unlocks the Secrets of Mexico's Past and Concise History of World Religions: An Illustrated Time Line .

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: The Shang Dynasty
• 2: Fertile Land
• 3: Shang Society
• 4: Bronze
• 5: Shang Religion
• 6: Shang Warfare
• 7: Dragons
• 8: Silk
• 9: Trade
• 10: Writing
• 11: Grave Goods
• 12: Story: Yu Tames the Flood
• 13: Timeline of the Shang Dynasty
• 14: Glossary
• 15: Further Resources
• 16: Index