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Why Did Shang Kings Continuously Rebuild Their Palaces? - The Dispersed Capital of the Late Shang Dynasty | Sleepy Facts About History
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Three thousand years ago, the most powerful court in East Asia governed not from a walled city but from a broad river valley where kings moved between scattered palace platforms, bronze foundries, and burial grounds. This was Yinxu, the late Shang royal center near modern Anyang, and understanding how it functioned requires setting aside modern assumptions about what a capital ought to look like. There was no continuous curtain of fortifications, no dense grid of streets, and no single…
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