Bronze AgeWorld atlas

entity · pol_western_zhou

Western Zhou dynasty

Major East Asian world-timeline polity beginning with the Zhou conquest in the mid-eleventh century BCE.

Evidence confidence: high
Awaiting expert reviewSouthern Arabia and Horn of Africa expansion for the Bronze Age Systems Atlas
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.

Preferred assertion

1046 BCE–771 BCE

Precision: range

  • informs · contextualizes
    Ritual Vessel, Western Zhou Dynasty — Metropolitan Museum of Art (2026)

    Provides broad world-timeline orientation.


    Locator: Object record; Western Zhou date and conquest context

Research description

The polity is included only as a selective major-world orientation event. No contact with Southern Arabia or the Horn is asserted.

Evidence and sources

  • informs · contextualizes
    Ritual Vessel, Western Zhou Dynasty — Metropolitan Museum of Art (2026)

    Provides broad world-timeline orientation.


    Locator: Object record; Western Zhou date and conquest context

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