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200
China's first emporer conquered much of eastern China.
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202
China's milatary power grew stronger, and Chinese culture spread into Southern China
B.C -
500
500s B.C- Taoism originated in China
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May 23, 700
700s A.D- Japan began to develop a unique political system.
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May 18, 1200
Mongol invaders led by Genghis Khan overthrew the Sung dynasty
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May 23, 1200
1200- The Thais migrated from the Southern China into the Khmer regions.
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May 23, 1274
1274 & 1281- Mongols tried to invade Japan but the Japanses put aside their rivalries
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May 18, 1279
Mongol invaders ruled China
A.D -
May 18, 1500
The Europeans influences reached China by sea
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May 23, 1500
1500s - Portuguese traders arrived in Japan
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May 23, 1500
1500s - Europeans came to Southeast Asia
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May 18, 1577
The portuguese arrived and set up a trading colong at Macao
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1600s - The Japanese frove out European traders and missionaries
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1600-1800- Japan remianed largely cut off gtom the world
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The water buffalo was tamed and irrigation systems were dug.
B.C -
China lost several wars
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1900- The British and French ser up plantations for growing export crops.
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1842- China lost Hong Kong to the British
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1853- U.S Navy ships under Commodore Matthew C. at Tokyo Bay
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1890- Japan had a constitution and parliamentary system of government
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1895- Japan captured Taiwan
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1895- The Japanese took the island of Taiwan from China
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1905- Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese war.
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1910-Japan annexed Korea
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1912- Rebels under the leadership of Sun Yat-Sen formed the republic of China
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1920- Japan empire also included many islands in the North Pacific
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1930- Japan took ovr Manchuria
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1937- Japan invavded eastern China
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1937- Japan invaded the rest of China
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1945- After Japan's defeat, the Nationalists and the Communists fought for control of China
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1949- The Nationalists retreated to the island of Taiwan and set up a rival government,
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1949- The soviet and U.S occupation forces withdrew.
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1950- North Korea invaved South Korea
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1953- North & South Korea signed an armistice, or truce, to end the fighting.
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1958- China's economy, Mao launched the Great Leap forward
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1976- Xiaoping came to power.
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1989- The government continues to defend actions it took to end pro-democray demonstraition ub Beiging
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1989- Curma changed its name to Myanmar
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1996-97- The CUltural Revolution delayed China's economic devekopment and brought chaos to the country.
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108 B.C- The Chinese invaded Korea
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1868- A group of sumurai demanding reforms overthrew the last shogun.
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1945- The U.S dropped atomic bobms on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Chinese unity was restored
A.D -
800 A.D- The Khmer what is now Combodia
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An organized society lived in a small farming villages along the Hunag River
B.C -
Chinese people began farming along the Chang River