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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