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Han emperor Wu Di extends the Great Wall into western desert to protect trade along the Silk Road and to subdue the Xiongnu.
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Beginning of the reign of the Han dynasty. At the end of the qin dynasty one of the leaders liu bang created a new dynasty called the han dynasty. Han dynasty was divided into two periods. Western han with the capital Changan and the easten han dynasty with the capital Luoyang. Even today people still consider that the han dynasty was one of china's goldern ages.
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Qin Dynasty Ended
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End of Han dynasty
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Reign of China's first emperor qin Shi Huangdi. The first Great Wall is built under General Meng Tien's command
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Qin Dynasty Began. He invented the title Huangdi meaning emperor. He also called himself QinShihuangdi meaning First emperor. He controlled the country with strict laws and hard punishments. The emperor not only ruled china but ruled other places and made them change all their ways of doing things including their writing weights and measures.
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Warring Stated Period, during which China is a collection of hostile separate kingdoms.
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Mongol leader Genghis Khan breaks through negelcted Great Wall; conquers China in 1215.
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Mongol leader Genghis Khan breaks through negelcted Great Wall; conquers China
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Kublai Khan becomes Mongol emperor of China and nearby areas.
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Rebellion led by Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming emperor, edns Mongol occupation of China
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Rebellion led by Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming emperor, edns Mongol occupation of China.
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MIng Dynasty Began. The ming dynasty was the last native chinese dynasty. the emperor assumed that he was the supreme leader and that everyone should obey him. He made people kill hundreds and thousands of people to death for not believing what he had told them.
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Rule of Ming dynasty, when the Great Wall is rebuilt
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The earliest Chinese cities are built and fortified with protective walls.
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Rule of Ming Emperor Wanli, the period when the Great Wall took its present form
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Ming Dynasty Ended
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The Manchu conquer China.
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The Manchu rule China, and the Great Walll ceases to serve as a defensive border.
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Communists led by Mao Zedong come to power.
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During the Cultural Revolution, artifacts are destroyed, including parts of the Great Wall.
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Den Xiaoping orders restoration of the Great Wall.
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Early people in China develop agriculture, which results in their settling in villages, often surrounded by protective walls
