KS2 History - The Shang Dynasty

This film is from the series Lost Lands available on BBC Teach.

In this animated film we follow Li, a farmer’s son, and his father as they deliver ox bones to the Shang Emperor’s palace.

These bones will become oracles that are used to foretell the future. They are one of our main sources of information about the Shang Dynasty, which ruled part of China about three thousand five hundred years ago.

Other artifacts that tell us about life under the Shang Dynasty have also been found in tombs. They tell us that, among other inventions, the Shang developed a form writing which helped them with finance and administration and that this Bronze Age society developed a powerful army using bronze weapons.

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