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By 100 AD, Chinese shipbuilders invented the stern post rudder and watertight compartments for ship's hulls
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Silk Road is Inaugurated
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The mechanical belt drive, with a large wheel and small pulley, was first mentioned by the Han Dynasty author Yang Xiong (53–18 BC) in 15 BC, used for a quilling machine that wound silk fibers on to bobbins for weavers' shuttles
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Huns are defeated by the Chinese
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Chinese invent the magic lantern
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(Wu-di) Wu's Reign
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One of the major developments of the ancient Chinese agriculture was the use of the iron moldboard plows. Though probably first developed in the 4th century BC
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The Seed Drill is used to plant seeds into the soil at a uniform depth and covers it
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By the first century BC the Chinese had developed the technology for deep drilling boreholes
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Han dynasty begins in 206 B.C.
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Western Han Dynasty 206 B.C.to 8
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Qin,China's first unified feudal dynasty, was established by Emperor QinShi Huang. The weights and measures and characters for the whole of China were first standardized then. However, the dynasty only lasted for 15 years due to later tyranny.
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Ch'In Dynasty from 221B.C.to 207B.C.
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As the name implies,this period saw a divided China and was an era of continual conflict between seven major vassal states: Qi, Chu, Y an, Han, Zhao, Weiand Qin.
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Qin extinguishes the Zhou Dynasty Royal House
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The Chinese developed a lodestone compass to indicate direction sometime in the 4th century BC
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As the first half of Eastern Zhou,a hundred schools of thought including Confucianism contendduring this period.Many vassal states,especially those led by the fivemajor overloads,struggledfor the reign.
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Confucius exiled from Lu
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The Chinese started planting crops in rows sometime in the 6th century BC
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Daoism begins
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Li Erh born in 560B.C. He isthe founder ofthe Taoists school of thought
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Confucius lived
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Invention of gun powder
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In 722 B.C.the Spring and Autumn Dynasty begins
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Zhou state collapses to Eastern Zhou
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In 1000 B.C.the Shang Dynasty ends
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Era recalled asGoldenAge of Peace and Stability 1000 B.C.to 800 B.C.
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Traditional date of Confucius' death
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Tang Dynasty united China
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