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While Moses was getting commandments on stone, China's Shang Dynasty was writing prophecies on animal bones
The Shang Dynasty in China was using oracle bones — turtle shells and ox scapulae inscribed with questions to ancestors and deities — for divination during this exact period. These are the earliest substantial written records in Chinese history. It's wild to think that on opposite sides of the world, civilizations were independently developing writing systems and wrestling with questions about the divine. Global context hits different.
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