entity · geo_yellow_river_world_context
Yellow River world-context frame
Context location for the Shang-Zhou transition.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1100 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: range
highContextual record outside all or part of the primary interval.
- informs · contextualizes
China, 1046-256 B.C.: Western Zhou dynasty overview — The Metropolitan Museum of ArtProvides the orientation chronology.
Locator: Western Zhou overview
Research description
The transition marks a major political reorganization in early China. Included as broad reader orientation without asserting a Central Asian cause or direct awareness.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
China, 1046-256 B.C.: Western Zhou dynasty overview — The Metropolitan Museum of ArtProvides the orientation chronology.
Locator: Western Zhou overview