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Period: 2000 BCE to 1700 BCE
Xia Dynasty
1.Originated on Huang He(Yellow River)
2.Developed written language
3.Use of Oracle Bones
4.Developed metal-casting process
5.Developed silk weaving
6.Developed porcelain -
Period: 1700 BCE to 1000 BCE
Shang Dynasty
1.Originated on Huang He(Yellow River)
2.Developed written language
3.Use of Oracle Bones
4.Developed metal-casting process
5.Developed silk weaving
6.Developed porcelain -
Period: 1028 BCE to 221 BCE
Zhou Dynasty
1.Set up an agricultural system
2.Mandate of Heaven originates
3.Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism develop
4.Built roads and expanded trade
5.End:Start of warring states period
6.Created cavalry
7.Nobles Take over
8.Invented iron plows -
Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE
Qin Dynasty
1.Start: End of Warring states Period
2.Unified China
3.Strong Centralized Government
4.Legalism(Harsh)
5.Used forced labor
6.Shi Huangdi builds the great wall
7.Qin Shi Huangdi("First Emperor of China")
8.Mandate of Heaven
9.Uniform system of writing
10.Standardized coinage
11.Develops system of weights and measurements
12.Terracotta Army -
Period: 207 BCE to 220
Han Dynasty
1.Silk Road trade is established
2.Strong Centralized Government:Bureaucracy
3.Established a civil service system
4.Educational academies taught Confucianism
5.Pax Sinica
6.Sima Qin writes the first history of China
7.Wudi expands the Empire
8.Zhang Qiang explored lands to the west
9.Paper, sundial, wheelbarrow
10.Buddhism introduced
11. Empress Lu takes control
12.Encouraged Chinese assimilation
13.Mandate of Heaven -
Period: 589 to 618
Sui Dynasty
1.Built the Grand Canal
2.Emperor Wendi rebuilds the Great Wall
3.End of 350 years of conflict
4.Mandate of Heaven -
Period: 618 to 907
Tang Dynasty
1.Start of China's "Golden Age"
2.Restored and expanded civil service system
3.Emperor Tang Taizong reconquered lost territory
4.Aristocratic power fades
5.Gentry upper-class begins to rise
6.Expanded Roads and canals
7.Block printing, porcelain, mechanical clock
8.Empress Wu - first and only Empress of China
9.Capital city at Changan
10.Status of women declines(foot binding) -
Period: 960 to 1271
Song Dynasty
1.Continuation of China's Golden Age"
2.Improved rice cultivation(faster growing rice)
3.Emphasis on education and mathematics
4.Compass, gunpowder, typography invented
5.Foreign trade flourishes
6.Largest Population in the world(100 million)
7.Gentry Upper-class holds power
8.Neo-Confucianism is made official religion
9.Development of acupuncture
10.Poetry and art based on nature
11.Status of women declines(foot binding) -
Period: 1271 to 1368
Yuan Dynasty
1.Protected Silk road
2.First non-chines people to rule China
3.Mongols assimilate into Chinese culture
4.Mongols rule under Kublai Khan
5.Mongols vs. Chinese people -
Period: 1368 to
Ming Dynasty
1.Completion of The Great Wall
2.Voyages of Zheng He
3.Mandate of Heaven returns to Chinese people