Idle Ages / Ages / Shang Dynasty
Shang Dynasty is age 9 on the Idle Ages ladder, set in 1250 BCE. You unlock it with coins the ages below it earned. From there it produces on its own cycle, with its own upgrade costs and its own four heroes.
| Position | Age 9 of 40 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1250 BCE |
| Legendary | Fu Hao |
| Automation | Needs Tang at level 5, after which the age produces with the app closed for up to 8 hours |
| Heroes | Fu Hao, Wu Ding, Tang, Daji |
Fu Hao raises every age you own at once. The other three raise this one. All four carry a piece of written history that unlocks as you level them.
Legendary
Fu Hao, queen of the Shang dynasty around 1200 BCE, led armies of 13,000 into battle as China’s earliest known female general - and served as high priestess besides. Her untouched tomb, found in 1976, held over 100 bronze weapons that confirmed the oracle bones: she really did command.
Raises output in every age you own, and most of all in their own. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
King Wu Ding raised the Shang to its height around 1250 BCE, and under him his wife Fu Hao led armies of thousands. His long reign is the first in Chinese history confirmed by written oracle-bone records.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Rare Manager, level 5
Cheng Tang overthrew the tyrant Jie to found the Shang dynasty around 1600 BCE. He is remembered as a just king who ended a cruel age and, in legend, offered himself in prayer to break a seven-year drought.
Raises the production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add. Levelling Tang to 5 is what automates Shang Dynasty.
Common
Daji, favored consort of the last Shang king, became the archetype of the beauty who topples a dynasty. Legend blames her for cruel entertainments that turned the people against the throne before the Zhou conquest.
Raises the output of their own age. Every level multiplies what they add by 1.6.
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