Ancient China

  • 1600 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

    The Shang dynasty or Yin dynasty, according to traditional historiography, decreed in the Yellow River valley in the subsequent millennium BC, achieving the Xia dynasty and accompanied by the Zhou dynasty.
  • 1122 BCE

    Zhou Dynasty

    The Zhou dynasty was a Chinese dynasty that accompanied the Shang dynasty and anterior the Qin dynasty. The Zhou Dynasty lasted longer than the other dynasties.
  • 1050 BCE

    The Bronze Age of Ancient China

    The Shang dynasty was accomplished
    by the people of Zhou, who came from farther up the Yellow River in the division of Xi’an in Shaanxi region.
  • 1046 BCE

    The Fall of Shang Dynasty

    In 1046 BCE, the Shang Dynasty was dispose at the Battle of Muye, and the Zhou Dynasty was accepted. The battle that producing with the Zhou, a theme people living in the western part of the kingdom, dispose the Shang Dynasty.
  • 475 BCE

    The warring States Period

    The 250 years between 475 and 221 BC is called the Warring States Period because the province of the Zhou Dynasty was separated between 8 states. These states had recurrent wars until 221 BC when Qin accomplished them all.
  • 221 BCE

    Qin Dynasty

    The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of regal China, lasting from 221 to 206 BC. The advantage of the Qin state was greatly expanded by the Legalist improves of Shang Yang in the fourth century BC, during the Warring States period.
  • 221 BCE

    The Warring States of Ancient China

    Qin, Han, Chu, Qi, Yan, Wei, and Zhao are all warring states of ancient China. Han was the weakest state when coming to war, yet Qin was one of the powerful states.
  • 220 BCE

    The Early Chinese Empires

    Lewis's work on the antiquity of the Qin and Han dynasties is a welcome donation to the study of early regal Chinese history. The propensity deviate after Emperor Wu's rule, producing mostly from Han agricultural strategies, which pushed rustic to heist money from the affluent. therefore, there came into being a sturdy landlordism.
  • 210 BCE

    Qin and Zhou Dynasties

    Rather than preserve the title of "king" born by the preceding Shang and Zhou rulers, he regulation as the Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty from 220 to 210 BC.
  • 206 BCE

    Han Dynasty

    The Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220) was accepted when Prince of Han, Liu Bang, crushed the regal Army of Qin in Wei Valley. The vanquish was initially a part of a service revolt that arose after the demise of the First Qin Emperor.