Shang

2. Their written sources cannot be taken seriously because they were written a long time ago.
 * 1) The fall of the Shang dynasty was much like that of the Xia dynasty, the last king was a cruel tyrant. Instead of the people overthrowing the king, he was killed by a king from a rival kingdom, the Chou kingdom. The Chou dynasty was part of the Shang kingdom; its civilization was a combination of the Shang culture and that of non-Chinese civilizations.

3. They left behind written records and sources so we can't get much information on them.

4. Becasue they don't have a lot of written records, archeologists can't even say that the Shang dynasty even existed.

5. Their ruler was said to be evil and was overthrown because the Heavens didn't want him to rule anymore. 6. The common people mostly lived outside the palace cities but the people that didn’t lived in pits and cellars 7. The nobility spent much of their time hunting or in warfare. Game and captives were treated equally by nobility. They sacrificed their captives to the gods.