Public Works
The Shang dynasty were advances in many ways, they had excellent defense systems, advanced farming mechanisms and great method for organizing the city.
- The Shang were able to develop a device that would make an ox pull plows, they also had carts that would be pulled by a horse to make transportation faster.
- For their defenses, they had cities with walls around them, they also had organized armies, composed of people on horse- drawn chariots, spear men, foot soldiers, and some with lots of armor made of bamboos.
- Their city was organized in a grid system, and had road ways, market places and temples with the king in the middle of it all. The buildings were built on a platform with layers on top of each other with tightly compacted dirt to make it impenetrable from robbers,