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"In the Shang Dynasty (about 2000 BC), the earliest period we know much about, people in China worshipped a lot of differentgods - weather gods and sky gods - and also a higher god who ruled over the other gods, called Shang-Ti. People who lived during the Shang Dynasty also believed that their ancestors - their parents and grandparents - became like gods when they died, and that their ancestors wanted to be worshipped too, like gods. Each family worshipped their own ancestors..."

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