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Shang Dynasty (Approx. 1600-1027 BCE)
River Valley Civilization
Inventions/Contributions
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Advanced bronze-casting methods
1500 BCE Aryans invaded India
Oracle-bones with characters scratched on them
1480 BCE Tuthmosis III conquered Palestine and
Walled cities (Anyang and Zhengzhou)
Syria
Human and animal sacrifices at ritual burials
1250 BCE Moses led Exodus out of Egypt
1200 BCE Trojan War
Celtic settlements in Britain
1050 BCE David King of Israel
Zhou (jow) Dynasty (Approx. 1027-211 BCE)
Warfare
Feudalism
Decentralization
Disunity
Confucius
Intellectualism
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Western Zhou (1027-771 BCE)
 Feudal-type divisions of land amongst
nobles
 Frequent wars with nomadic tribes in the
north
 Bronzeware reaches a technical and artistic 961 BCE Solomon built Temple in Jerusalem
814 BCE Carthage founded
peak
753 Rome founded
700 BCE Homer
Eastern Zhou (771-221 BCE)
Spring and Autumn Period (771-476 BCE)
 Iron replaced bronze as main metal for
560-483 BCE Buddha in India
implements and weapons
?500 BCE Zoroaster
 Slaves replaced by peasant farmers
530 BCE Roman Republic founded
 Confucius (551-479)
 Lao Zi (active 550)
Warring States Period (476-221 BCE)
 Metal coinage widespread
 “Hundred Schools of Thought”
 Legalists active
 Crossbows
 Writing-brushes
 Chopsticks in use
 Mencius (Meng Zi) (371-289)
 Zhuang Zi (365-290)
 State of Qin conquered all by 221 BCE
399 BCE Death of Socrates
428-347 BCE Plato
336-323 BCE Alexander the Great
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Qin or Chi’in (chin) Dynasty (approx.. 221-207 BCE)
Great Wall
Terra Cotta Soldiers
Legalism
First Emperor
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Huangdi proclaimed first emperor (first to rule
218 BCE Hannibal Crossed the Alps
China as a centralized, unified state)
212 BCE Death of Archimedes
Legalism
Standardized writing and language
Standardized money
Standardized system of measurement
Irrigation projects
Building of the Great Wall (linked existing walls)
Terra Cotta Army
Expanded network of roads and canals
Multiplication tables
Han Dynasty (approx.. 202 BCE – 220 CE)
Parallel with Rome
Great Classical Dynasty
Silk Roads
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Western Han (206 BCE – 24 CE)
54 BCE Caesar invaded Britain
 Silk Roads
 Revival of Confucianism
 Chinese Examination System (Civil
Service Exams)
Birth of Christ
Eastern Han (24-220 CE)
50 AD Nero
 Paper invented
 First records of Buddhism in China
70 AD Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem
 Zhang Heng (78-139 CE)
 Calculated pi to five decimal places
Period of Disunity (approx. 220-581 CE)
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The Three Kingdoms of Wei (221-265 BCE)
Wu and Shu struggled for supremacy
340 CE Rome adopted Christianity
Non-Chinese nomadic people became increasingly
influential
410 CE Visigoths sacked Rome
Buddhism spread rapidly
Population shift to Yangzi Valley
451 Attila the Hun defeated
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Sui (sway) Dynasty (approx. 581-618 CE)
Takes a while to reunify after the fall of Han
Grand Canal
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Porcelain
Block Printing
Grand Canal (1800 km, links Hangzhou and
Beijing)
Coinage Standardization
Tang Dynasty (approx. 618-907 CE)
Re-establishment of the Silk Roads
Buddhism popular
Muslims settle in China
China influences Japan, Vietnam, Korea
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Economy flourished with trade via Central Asia
571-632 Prophet Muhammad
expanding
Xuang Zang (602-664) walked to India to collect
673 Arab siege of Constantinople
Buddhist Texts
Wu Zetian was the only female ‘Emperor’ (690793 Viking raids on Britain began
705)
Tea
“Dark Ages” in Europe
Po Chu-I (poet)
Arabs defeated the Chinese armies at the Battle of
Talas (751 CE)
Buddhist monasteries dissolved (850 CE)
Frist dated printed book (868 CE)
Period of Disunity (907-960 CE)
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First paper money introduced
919 CE first military use of gunpowder
910 Abbey of Cluny founded
950 Foot-binding of girls introduced
Paper first made in Europe
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Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE)
Urbanization
Sophistication
Population Growth
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Northern Song (960-1127)
1096 First Crusade
 Magnetic compass for navigation
1155 Genghis Khan born
Southern Song (1127-1279)
1215 Magna Carta
 Neo-Confucianism
 Celadon porcelain
1220 Gunpowder introduced to Europe
 Mongols occupy Beijing (1215)
 Marco Polo’s journey to China (12711292)
Yuan Dynasty (AKA Mongol Empire) (Approx. 1279-1368 CE)
Mongols
Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
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Mongol rulers of China
Drama flourished
1347-51 Black Death
“Romance of Three Kingdoms” (classic novel, Luo
Guanzhong)
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE)
Rebellion by a commoner
Silver Collapse- Very Bad
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Voyages of Zheng He (1413)
1450 Printing in Europe
Frist Dalai Lama (1447)
1492 Columbus reached New World
Blue and white porcelain
1452-1519 Leonardo de Vinci
First British trade with Canton (1637)
1519 Cortes reached Mexico
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Quin (ching) Dynasty (Manchu rulers) (1644-1912 CE)
Manchus
Impose foreign rule
Great contact with the west… then exploitation
Opium Wars
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Chinese Empire reached its greatest extent (under
1642-17 Newton
Kang Xi and Qian Long)
1776 American Revolution
First Opium War (1840-42) forced China to accept
1789 French Revolution
Opium from British merchants (later treaties
opened many ports to western powers)
1809-1882 Darwin
Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
1818-1883 Marx
Japan defeated Chinese navy (1894)
1848 Communist Manifesto
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
1867-34 Marie Curie
Manchu rulers overthrown (1911)
1879-55 Albert Einstein
1904-05 Russo-Japanese War
Republic (1911-49 CE)
Decentralization
Japanese Invasions
Civil War
Inventions/Contributions
Sun Yat-sen, first president (dies 1925)
May 4th Movement (1919)
Chinese Communist Party founded (1921)
Chaing Kai-shek became leader of Nationalists
Massacre of Communists (1927)
Nationalist Encirclement campaigns (against
Communists) began (1930)
Japan occupied Manchuria (1931)
Communist Long March (1934-35)
Mao became leader of Communists
Sino-Japanese War (1937-45)
Civil War (1946-49)
Chang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan
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1914-18 First World War
1919 Treaty of Versailles
1933 Hitler become Chancellor of Germany
1938 Munich Pact
1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact (Nonaggression Pact)
1939-45 Second World War
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People’s Republic of China (AKA Mao Zeodong ) (1949-Present)
Communist China
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Land reform (1949-52)
Sino-Soviet Alliance (1950)
First Five-year Plan (1953-57)
Great Leap Forward (1958)
Tibetan Uprising (1959)
War with India (1962)
First Chinese atomic bomb tested (1964)
Cultural Revolution launched (1966)
Diplomatic relations with U.S. opened (1972)
Mao Zedong Died (1976)
Democracy Movement (1978-79)
War with Vietnam (1978)
Census shows over 1,000 million people in China
(1982)
China joins World Trade Organization (2001)
Olympic Games held in Bejing (2008)