Ancient China
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Ancient China is a very old civilization. People wrote about the history of China 3500 years ago. China is one of the world's oldest continuous (still alive) civilizations. Turtle shells with writing like ancient Chinese writing from the Shang Dynasty (商朝) have been carbon dated to about 1500 BC. They say that China began as city-states in the Yellow River valley. Many people say that China became a big Kingdom or Empire in 221 BC. The Qin (秦) emperor in the 3rd century BC made everyone write the same way. He also had ideas about the state which he based on Confucianism in the 2nd century BC. This began what we call the Chinese civilization. Ancient China fought wars and Civil wars and was sometimes conquered by other people. This means that it has parts of cultures from many places in Asia.
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- Stone Age - 50,000-2000 BC
- Shang Dynasty - 1766-1122 BC
- Chou Dynasty -
- Western Chou -1122-771 BC
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- Eastern Chou-
- Spring and Autumn period -771-481 BC
- Warring States period -481-221 BC
- Eastern Chou-
- Ch'in (Qin) Dynasty -221-206 BC
- Han Dynasty -206 BC-AD 220
- Three Kingdoms - 220-581 AD
- Sui Dynasty - 581-618 AD
- T'ang Dynasty - 618-907 AD
- Sung Dynasty - 960-1279 AD
- Mongols - 1279-1368 AD
- Ming Dynasty -1368-1644 AD
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