was toppled by a new dynasty, the Zhou. The Zhou came from the west - from the steppes of central Asia. Like the Kushites of Sudan who conquered Egypt at roughly the same time, the Zhou were a ...

By the 1100s BCE, the Shang Dynasty was facing encroachments from several states to the west, the most formidable of which was the State of Zhou. The initiator of the Zhou conquest of Shang was Ji ...

is set during the transition between decline of the the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) and the rise of the Zhou dynasty (1600–256 BC). This epic work blends historical events with Chinese ...

was toppled by a new dynasty, the Zhou. The Zhou came from the west - from the steppes of central Asia. Like the Kushites of Sudan who conquered Egypt at roughly the same time, the Zhou were a ...