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Dates of the Shange Dynasty. The Shang dynasty is thought to have run from c. 1600 - c.1100 B.C. It is also called the Yin Dynasty (or Shang-Yin). Tang the Great founded the dynasty. King Zhou was its final ruler. The Shang kings were linked to the rulers of the areas around who paid tribute and provided soldiers for military operations.
Yet contrary to historiography, where the Shang are described as a single dynasty ruling over China, the Shang were but one of many states, albeit the most powerful one. In the eleventh century the Shang kingdom was conquered by the Zhou, a family ruling over the western fringes of the Shang kingdom.