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Chinese History

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  • 7000 BCE

    Evidence of simple farming

  • Period: 2205 BCE to 1766 BCE

    Start of the Xia Dynasty

    A time of transition from the stone-age to the bronze-age
  • Period: 1766 BCE to 1122 BCE

    Start of the Shang Dynasty

  • Period: 1122 BCE to 222 BCE

    Start of the Zhou dynasty

  • 563 BCE

    Birth of Buddha

    In this year Siddhartha Gautama was born
  • Period: 221 BCE to 9

    Start of the Western Han Dynasty

    The development of paper and porcelain and trade was established on Silk Road
  • Period: 9 to 25

    Start of the Xin Dynasty

    The Xin Dynasty was a brief period under the reformer Wang Mang
  • 220

    Separation Of the Han Dynasty into 3 separate kingdoms

    Han Empire divided into three separate kingdoms, and then into dynasties ruling the north and the south
  • 220

    Construction of the Great Wall begins

  • Period: 220 to 500

    Start of the Eastern Han Dynasty

    the Han were restored and remained in power until increasing corruption led to their collapse
  • Period: 221 to 206

    Start of the Qin dynasty

    Qin Shi Huang Di began his rule as emperor of China. He was the first emperor
  • 481

    Start of the Warring States Period

    This took place during the Zhou Dynasty
  • 551

    Birth of Confucius

  • Period: 589 to 618

    Start of the Sui Dynasty

    Re-establishment of Imperial rule over all of China
  • Period: 618 to 960

    Start of the Tang Dynasty

    Growth of cities and trade, Buddhism became an important religion
  • Period: 960 to 1279

    Start of the Song dynasty

    Start of the Song Dynasty re-unifies China after a period of rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty
  • Period: 1279 to 1368

    Start of the Start of the Yuan Dynasty

    Start of the Start of the Yuan Dynasty, after the Song Dynasty is overthrown by Kublai Khan, the leader of the Mongols
  • Period: 1368 to

    Start of the Ming Dynasty

  • Period: to

    Start of the Qing Dynasty

    The Qing Dynasty was China’s last Imperial dynasty under Manchu rule, which ended in 1911