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  • buddhism
    100

    buddhism

    linkTwo Buddhist monks arrived from iIndia into China in 68 AD. They then read many texts of Buddhism to many of the Chineese people. That's Buddhist religion spread from there.
  • Chinese Pottery
    200

    Chinese Pottery

    linkWhile some cultures had started making more ceramics and the Neolithic cultures were using jade, most of the chinese were still using regular clay and stone with their pottery. Nearly all of the Chinese pottery were jars and bowls that were handmade. These were nearly all painted with red and black. In about a 1000 more years, the Chinese started doing mostly geometric designs on this type of pottery.
  • China and Tea
    220

    China and Tea

    linkLinkTea begins to start becoming very popular. They later began to produce soy milk and tofu. After this they figured out how to get ginger. Tea spread more off from this.
  • Qin Dynasty
    221

    Qin Dynasty

    Quin Dynasty
    Its founding emperor was known as Qin Shi Huang. During the Quin Dynasty, trade increased, and agriculture and military protection were also increased. The central government then had a lot more control of the people, and having access to a much larger workforce. This allowed for the construction of more projects, such as a wall on the northern border, now known as the Great Wall of China. The picture is of a armed general.
  • Invention of Crossbow http://ancientstandard.com/2007/06/29/a-brief-history-of-the-crossbow-ca-4th-c-bc-â-onward/
    300

    Invention of Crossbow http://ancientstandard.com/2007/06/29/a-brief-history-of-the-crossbow-ca-4th-c-bc-â-onward/

    As one of the deadliest projectile weapons known to man, the creators of the crossbow must have had some very intense warfare in mind as they developed this weapon. In fact, there is quite a bit of uncertainty over when and where the crossbow was first created and used, but evidence for its use first appears around the 4th century BC in China.
    The earliest definitive evidence for Chinese crossbow use comes from manuscripts dating to the 4th and 3rd centuries BC in China, associated with the foll
  • Invention of Compass http://www.sacu.org/greatinventions.html
    400

    Invention of Compass http://www.sacu.org/greatinventions.html

    The fourth of the Great Inventions is the magnetic compass. Whilst mining for ores and producing copper and iron by smelting, the Chinese came upon a natural mineral, magnetite, which attracted iron, and also always pointed north if suspended. With development the round compass came into being. The compass was probably invented in the Qin Dynasty (221-206BC) by Chinese fortune-tellers who used the lodestones to construct their fortune telling boards. But they eventually realised that the loadst
  • Islam
    Jan 1, 651

    Islam

    LinkChinese records say that during the period 651 to 798, Arabian envoys visited China, and more and more Arabian and Persian traders came to China to do business for silk. The frequent friendly exchanges between the governments and the frequent commercial intercourse, on the one hand, promoted the existing traditional friendship between China and the Arabic world, and on the other, provided good conditions for Islam to spread within China.
  • Judiasm
    Jan 1, 700

    Judiasm

    Judaism started in China when settlers from Jewish decent in the 7th century arrived in China. After this judaism began to slowly grow over time. This then has grown after hundreds of years.
  • Invention of Gunpowder 12th Century
    May 2, 1100

    Invention of Gunpowder 12th Century

    http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/focus/inventions.htm
    In Chinese, gunpowder is called huo yao, meaning flaming medicine. Now, the Chinese had no intention of making gunpowder. They Accidently discovered it while trying to make an elixir of Immortality. Gunpowder is a mixture of sulphur, saltpeter and charcoal.
  • Zhou Dynasty
    Nov 15, 1110

    Zhou Dynasty

  • Discovery of Alcohol
    Feb 12, 1116

    Discovery of Alcohol

    http://www.orientalbalance.com/metanavigation/topnav/blog/discover-the-beauty-of-china-the-invention-of-alcohol With years of research, it has proven that the Chinese had alcohol 1000 years before the people Arabian peninsula, previously believed to be the first brewers.China, alcohol is known as Jiu and is considered to be a spiritual food which played an important role in their religious life. Research shows that ordinary beer, with an alcoholic content of 4%.
  • Chinese and the tradition of art
    Jan 1, 1507

    Chinese and the tradition of art

    linkStarting in the Five Dynasties, the dynasties would set up a academey unique to that era. The main guy would bring together the best painters in all of China, and the painters would have some salaries and would ware uniforms. The painters would paint and draw pictures of nobles and the wealthy to help explain their lives. These practices were very successful and were carried over to the Imperial era.
  • Shang Dynasty

    Shang Dynasty

    http://iis-db.stanford.edu/docs/117/ShangDynasty.pdf
    The Shang Dynasty was created during the 1600 created by a man name Cheng Tang. Who dethroned an evil king of the legendary Xia. The Shang Dynasty consisted of 20-30 kings and lasted around 600 years. The Shang Dynasty ended around 1050 when the Zhou Dynasty attack and conquered them.
  • Economy Destroyed

    Economy Destroyed

    wiki
    In 1949 China's economy was suffering from the effects of the war with Japan. Agriculture was disrupted, and food production was about 30 percent below its pre-war peak level.Transportation, communication, and power systems had been destroyedd because no one fixd them after they were destroyed.The main goal or the government for the 1949-1952 period was simply to restor
  • First National Flag

    First National Flag

    LInk The red color of the flag symbolizes revolution. The yellow, AKA the stars, symbolizes the unity of the Chinese people and the communist party. It resembles the leadership of the communist party in China. If the chinese people didn't unite they killed them.
  • Enonomics in the Shang Dynasty

    Enonomics in the Shang Dynasty

    The Shang Dynasty is the first recorded history in China. According to Shang Dynasty college student argue about whether the Shang Dynasty was the mid-18th to the mid-16th century B.C.E.. The people were skilled workers in bone, jade, stone, wood, shells, and bronze, as proven by the discovery of shops found on the outskirts of old palaces. The people of the Shang dynasty lived off of the land, and as time passed, settled permanently on farms instead of wandering as nomads.
  • Economy of china today

    Economy of china today

    Wiki
    China's socialist economy is the worlds second largest economy.Most of China economic growth is created from Special Economic Zones of the People's Republic of China. The Special Economic Zones of the People's Republic of China (SEZs) are special economic zones located in mainland China.
  • Geat Wall of China

    Geat Wall of China

    WIKKIThe great wall of China is built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China. It was made to protect the Chinese Empire against any outside forces hat would be a potential threat. Hundreds o thousands died creaing the wall. It is about 8,851.8 km long. It took around 2000 years to build.
  • Christianity

    Christianity

    this is a linkThe most widely accepted record of the earliest existence of Christianity in China is a stone stele dated 781 A.D. that detailed Christian missionaries’ activities and the propagation of the religion in China. Since being unearthed in Xi’an by accident in 1625, this stele has stood firm as the most authoritative piece of evidence relating to the earliest presence of Christianity in China.