Trade

1. traders travelled by following the rivers.

2. they made many stops

3. they travelled long ways.

Mesopotamian artifacts are found in Indus Valley and Indus Valley artifacts are found in Mesopotamia.

SEA:religion

1. The southeast asians learned sanskrit from the Hindus.

Ashoka stopped using warfare to conquer places and sent missionaries to other countries to teach Buddhism. The religions made the nations peaceful.

2. Hinduism and Buddhism was spread by missionaries who travelled to other countries to teach their religion. The people had adopted the religions.

shang dynasty homework

RELIGION

The people of the Shang dynasty believed in a lot of different gods: weather gods, sky gods and a higher god(shang ti) that ruled over the gods. They also believes that when a person dies, he/she becomes a god too so they also worship them as they think they want to be worshipped.

this is a sculpture that is a person kneeling down like he is worshipping the gods.

this is an oracle bone.

WHAT HAPPENED IN 1150 BCE?

there was this capital called the zhou who's power became so great that it took over shang dinesty

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