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1600 BCE
The Shang Dynasty
The Shang Dynasties Invented the Oracle Bones which may be the inscriptions which were made out of bones in the earliest times -
Period: 1600 BCE to
The Chinese Dynasties (Shang - Ming)
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1046 BCE
The Zhou Dynasty
The Zhou Dynasty had many achievements during their time, which included as the longest reigning dynasty of all the Chinese history. They also invented what they call 'money' which used as a currency in their time. -
221 BCE
The Qin Dynasty
Taxation was first to be introduced in the reign of the Qin Dynasty and had the name "China" written from 'Qin'. They also had the most control of their aging reign -
206 BCE
The Han Dynasty
The Han Dynasty was in contact with the West, which the Chinese borders were expanded to include Vietnam and North Korea. -
220
The Disunity Dynasty
The Chinese were re-united by the Sui Dynasty: which lasted for only 37 years -
618
The Tang Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It is generally regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization, and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture.[4] Its territory, acquired through the military campaigns of its early rulers, rivaled that of the Han dynasty, and the Tang capital at Chang'an was the most populous city in the world. -
960
The Song Dynasty
This Dynasty succeeded the five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, coincided with the Liao and Western Xia Dynasties -
1279
The Yuan Dynasty
It was a Mongol Dynasty which means that it linked and ruled Mongolia. -
1368
The Ming Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang or Hongwu the emperor. They invented woodblock color printing, paper and the two-color printing process, Bristle toothbrush and shiprudders -
The Qing Dynasty 1644 - 1912
The Qing Dynasty is very powerful at a certain age of living - as the higher the qualities of lives are, the population began to grow more and more (1700), they kept their mandate of heaven really well. -
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The Qing Dynasty
The dynasty was founded by the Jurchen Aisin Gioro clan in Manchuria. In the late sixteenth century, Nurhaci, originally a Ming vassal, began organizing "Banners", military-social units that included Jurchen, Han Chinese, and Mongol elements. Nurhaci formed the Jurchen clans into a unified entity, which he renamed as the Manchus. By 1636, his son Hong Taiji began driving Ming forces out of Liaodong and declared a new dynasty, the Qing. -
The Chinese population doubled
When the Qing conquered China in the 1600's they restored peace and promoted the recovery of the agricultural economy - This would lay the foundation for the doubling of the Chinese population between 1650 and 1800. -
The Qing Dynasty - Fall (Lotus Rebellions)
The White Lotus Rebellion (1796–1804) was a rebellion initiated by followers of the White Lotus movement during the Qing dynasty of China. The rebellion began in 1794, when large groups of rebels claiming White Lotus affiliations rose up within the mountainous region that separated Sichuan province from Hubei and Shaanxi provinces. -
The Opium Trade
The Europeans traded opium for Tea and tried to make China addicted. -
The Opium War
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's sovereignty. The disputes included the First Opium War (1839–1842) and the Second Opium War (1856–1860). The wars and events between them weakened the Qing dynasty and forced China to trade with the rest of the world. -
The Boxer Rebellions
As foreign influence grew, so did nationalism and the foreign people took control over China and there it was, The Boxer Rebellions began. -
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Rise of Communism - China Republic
The China Republic turns into a communist - when communism rises. The beginning of the uprise of China, as a communist. The events started at 1911 to 1949. -
The Wu Chang Uprise - The beginning of revolution
The Wuchang Uprising was the Chinese uprising that served as the catalyst to the Xinhai Revolution, ending the Qing Dynasty – and two millennia of imperial rule. It began with the dissatisfaction of the handling of a railway crisis. The crisis then escalated to an uprising against the Qing government. Assisted by a new army coup. The Battle of Yangxia led by Huang Xing would be the major engagement in the uprising. -
The beginning of the Republic under Sun Yixian, the founder of the Republic and founder of KMT
Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese physician, writer, philosopher and revolutionary, the first president and founding father of the Republic of China. Hong Kong, Macau and the "forerunner of democratic revolution" in People's Republic of China (PRC). Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years leading up to the Xinhai Revolution. -
The Warlords Era, the Warlords fought for power.
The Warlord Era (1916-27) was a period when national authority in China disintegrated and the country broke apart into a jigsaw of regions, each controlled by powerful local leaders. Warlordism was to some extent a culmination of internal divisions that emerged in late Qing China. As Qing authority waned, local leaders moved to increase their own power. This fragmentation of political power continued during Yuan Shikai’s presidency. -
Jiang Jeishi takes control of the KMT
Chiang Kai-shek, also romanized as Jiang Jieshi and known as Jiang Zhongzheng, was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975. -
The Long March, The communists escape the Nationalists
The Long March (October 1934 – October 1935) was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army. There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west. The best known is the march from Jiangxi province which began in October 1934. -
World War II, The KMT and Communists fought the Japanese
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. -
The communists take power and the Nationalists escape to Taiwan
After the WWII has ended, the Communists took power and chased the Nationalists, until they fled to Taiwan -
The first 5 year plan
China is developing their country, there is rapid urbanization. The people migrated from the countryside to the city. The food and houses are highly demanded. Then these people complained about it. -
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The 5 year plan
The 5-year plan is for the people in the country to use a series of social to make economic development. -
The hundred flowers
Mao Zedong asked the people to criticise but when the 300-500 thousand did, they were sent back to be 're-educated' -
The great leap forward
This happened in 1958 - 1962 CE. Mao Zedong wanted to change China from agriculture to an industrial country. Which means that the communes would live together, share food together, are share homes together. This turned to be a failure and the economy dropped - there was not enough food, Eighteen to Forty-Five million people died which were starved and killed. -
The 2nd Five Year Plan
The Great Leap Forward was Mao’s attempt to modernize China’s economy.
One that, by 1988, would rival America.
Forced farmers to work in “communes” instead of for themselves -
The cultural revolution
Mao Zedong tried to gain power and there was very little freedom in China. Mao focused on the young people because the old people in the country can remember what had happened to them in the past. He formed the 'Red-Guards', which were the special army to keep track of the people who were 'Anti-Mao Zedong' and would kill them. He closed the schools and burnt down the historical events. The old people were sent to be 're-educated' again. -
Mao Xiaoping Died, Deng Xiaoping took power
After Mao died in 1976, Deng Xiaoping took charge.
Deng was also a member of the Communist Party, but he believed that China needed to be more like a market economy -
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The Modernizations
After Mao Xiaoping died, Deng Xiaoping took over the platform and controlled China -
Tiananmen square
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in China as the June Fourth Incident were student-led demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. More broadly, it refers to the popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests during that period, sometimes referred to as the '89 Democracy Movement. The protests were forcibly suppressed after the government declared martial law. In what became widely known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. -
Deng Xiaoping's Death
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese communist leader, the most powerful figure in the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s until his death in 1997.
