Shang dynasty
China's first fully authenticated dynasty, c. 1500–c. 1066 BC, which saw the start of the Bronze Age. Shang rulers dominated the Huang He (Yellow River) plain of northern China, developing a complex agricultural civilization which used a written language.
| The dynasty's existence was verified in the 1920s by the discovery of inscribed oracle bones (‘dragon bones’) at its capital situated at Anyang, northern Henan. |
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