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The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese ...
- Shang Dynasty, Confucius
- The Silk Road, Paper and Guns
- The Opium Wars
• 1600-1050 B.C.: Shang Dynasty -The earliest ruling dynasty of China to be established in recorded history, the Shangwas headed by a tribal chief named Tan. The Shang era is marked by intellectual advances in astronomy and math. • 551–479 B.C.: Confucius -The teacher, politician and philosopher was raised in poverty by his mother. He entered polit...
• 125 B.C.: The Silk Road -Following capture and escape during a mission for Emperor Wu, Zhang Qian returned after 13 years with a map of the ground he had covered. Reaching as far as Afghanistan, his maps were accurate and led to the international trade route the Silk Road. • 105 A.D.: Paper and books -Cai Lun developed paper by pounding together ...
• 1840-1842: The First Opium War -Great Britain flooded the country with opium, causing an addiction crisis. The Qing Dynasty banned the drug, and a military confrontation resulted. British forces shut down Chinese ports, and Hong Kongwas handed over to them. • 1851-1864: The Taiping Rebellion -Self-proclaimed prophet Hong Xiuquan revoltedagainst t...
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- Prehistory. Well before the advent of recognizable civilization in the region, the land was occupied by hominids. Peking Man, a skull fossil discovered in 1927 CE near Beijing, lived in the area between 700,000 to 300,000 years ago, and Yuanmou Man, whose remains were found in Yuanmou in 1965 CE, inhabited the land 1.7 million years ago.
- The First Dynasties. From these small villages and farming communities grew centralized government; the first of which was the prehistoric Xia Dynasty (c.
- The Zhou Dynasty. Around the year 1046 BCE, King Wu (r. 1046-1043 BCE), of the province of Zhou, rebelled against King Zhou of Shang and defeated his forces at the Battle of Muye, establishing the Zhou Dynasty (1046- 256 BCE).
- The Spring & Autumn Period & The Warring States. During the Spring and Autumn Period (c. 772-476 BCE and so called from the Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the state at the time and an early source mentioning General Sun-Tzu), the Zhou government became decentralized in their move to the new capital at Luoyang, marking the end of the 'Western Zhou' period and the beginning of 'Eastern Zhou'.
551 BCE - 479 BCE. Life of Confucius. 512 BCE - 506 BCE. The Wu Chu wars in China between the States of Wu and Chu. 506 BCE. The Battle of Boju at which the Wu forces under Sun-Tzu defeated the Chu. c. 500 BCE. Life of the Chinese Relativist Philosopher Teng Shih (probable date of death 522 or 502 BCE). c. 500 BCE.
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Aug 4, 2022 · The Republic of China is usually referred to as the first democratic republic in China after the 1911 (Xinhai) Revolution. It lasted from 1912 to 1949 in Chinese mainland; basically the transition time between feudalism and modernization. Quick Facts About the Republic of China. Chinese Name: 中华民国 (/jong hwaa min gwor/) Founder: Sun Yat-sen
Jul 29, 2019 · A chronology of key events in the history of China. 221-206 BC - King Ying Zheng of Qin for the first time unites much of the Chinese heartland, becomes the first ruler to use the title "emperor ...
Feb 6, 2024 · I am glad you insist on the early history of the Republic of China because this period is often overshadowed in the historiography by the Nanking decade (1928-1937) and the Sino-Japanese war (1937 ...
