According to Chinese tradition, Chinese civilization is 5,000 years old, though the ancient China of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou ...

A noteworthy new discovery, years in the making ... from roughly 1600 to 1046 B.C., when the rebelling state of Zhou conquered the dynasty at the Battle of Muye and established the Zhou dynasty.

In China the Shang Dynasty, which had been in power for over 500 years, was toppled by a new dynasty, the Zhou. The Zhou came from the west - from the steppes of central Asia. Like the Kushites of ...