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a timeline about Ancient China
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The Shang state was a bronze Age civilization which emerged around 1600 BCE in the plain of north China
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Shang Kings communicated with their ancestors through sacrificial rituals using bones and through divination. The shells and bones would crack and the cracks were interpreted are the ancestors' answers to questions posed by the Shang Kings
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who lived around 1200 BCE, was wife of Shang king Wu Ding. Very unusually, she was also a military leader. Most of the information we have about Fu Hao comes from oracle bone inscriptions.
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was a state based in the Wei River valley in Northwest China, near today's city of Xi'an. In early texts, three great Zhou rulers are said to have made the Zhou
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is a legendary figure, who is thought of as the founder of Daoism. Laozi is usually thought to have lived in the sixth century BCE, in the Spring & Autumn period
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was a man from an ordinary background who founded the Han dynasty.
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emperors needed to secure order in China, but avoid the harshness of the Qin regime that preceded it
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n the third century BCE, a great confederation of nomadic tribes persistently raided China.
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documents were normally written on bone or bamboo strips, sewn and rolled together into scrolls.
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When the First Emperor of Qin, Qin Shihuangdi died in 210 BCE, Qin institutions fell apart.
