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The Xia dynasty is said to be the first to irrigate, produce cast bronze, and build a strong army.
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The Shang Dynasty's accomplishments and characteristics include bronze work, military technology, including horse-drawn chariots, writing, a calendar, and religion, which featured ancestor worship and oracle bones.
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Chinese society developed new agricultural practices, invented coinage, standardized their writing system, and developed iron tools.
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Gunpowder, paper, printing, and the compass are sometimes called the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China. Kites were first used as a way for the army to signal warnings. Umbrellas were invented for protection from the sun as well as the rain.
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The Hans invented many things including the magnetic compasses, loom, paper, the silk road, wheelbarrow, cast iron, hot air balloon, and the seismograph.
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Among the many accomplishments of the Unified Silla Kingdom is the first known example of printing.
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At its peak of power, Goguryeo controlled most of the Korean peninsula, large parts of Manchuria and parts of the Russian Far East and eastern Mongolia.
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In the Baekje Kingdom, the emperor declared Buddhism the official religion of the state in 384.
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The Sui Dynasty also invented Block Printing which was used into the early 19th century as a means of typesetting. Block printing as a type set reduced the number of workers that it took to produce printed works.
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The Tang dynasty of ancient China witnessed many advancements in Chinese science and technology, with various developments in woodblock printing, timekeeping, mechanical engineering, medicine, structural engineering, cartography, and alchemy.
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invention of the metal movable type attest to Goryeo's cultural achievements.
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During the Nara Period the government officially supported Buddhism and a succession of large temples were built at important parts of the capital to protect the emperor and the state.
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The Goryeo dynasty was a period of intense religious fervor. Its people, from the rulers to their lowest subjects, were ardent believers in Buddhism. This dynasty had a unique beginning. Its founder, Wang Geon, embraced his former rivals and brought them into the fold of his new dynasty.
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Printing, paper money, porcelain, tea, restaurants, gunpowder, the compass, the number of things that Chinese of the Song Dynasty gave to the world is mind-boggling.
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Kamakura period, in Japanese history during which the basis of feudalism was firmly established.
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Many developments in economy, science, engineering, mathematics, printing, astronomy, medicine, painting, poetry, calligraphy and other forms of art took place during its reign.
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In the late Muromachi period, ink painting had migrated out of the Zen monasteries into the art world in general.
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They made the great wall of china. The Ming Dynasty is also remembered for its drama, literature and world-renowned porcelain.
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Joseon was the last dynasty of Korea and its longest-ruling Confucian dynasty. During its reign, Joseon encouraged the entrenchment of Chinese Confucian ideals and doctrines in Korean society. Neo-Confucianism was installed as the new dynasty's state ideology.
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A number of other administrative innovations were instituted to encourage commerce and stabilize society.
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the final period of traditional Japan, a time of internal peace, political stability, and economic growth under the shogunate (military dictatorship) founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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China discovered gunpowder long before the Qing Dynasty took over the throne. However, during the dynasty's rule, the first machine gun was invented.
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The Meiji period that followed the Restoration was an era of major political, economic, and social change in Japan. The reforms enacted during the Meiji emperor's rule brought about the modernization and Westernization of the country and paved the way for Japan to become a major international power.
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It followed the Meiji period and represented a continuation of Japan's rise on the international scene and liberalism at home.
