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History of China, ~Tanti K~ - Coggle Diagram
History of China
Xia Dynasty
(2070 BC - 1600 BC)
Qi (Yu's son)
1st King
start hereditary system
Shang Dynasty
(1600 BC - 1046 BC)
Capital: Yin in Anyang, Henan
Oracles bone inscription
100,000 tortoise shells/cattle bones
5000 different characters
recording
worship of ancestors/deities
wars/battles
apptm of officials
construction of cities
fortune telling by divination
Pre-Xia
Yao
Shun
Yu
Zhou Dynasty
(1046 BC - 256 BC)
7th-3rd BC
Classical era in Chinese philosophy
Confucianism
Confucius
Lun Yu (Analects)
Legalism
Taoism
Lao Zi
Dao De Jing
(Classic of the Way and Virtue)
Others
Military strategist
Sun Wu
Bing Fa
(Art of War)
Mohism
Theory of the Five Elements
Qin Dynasty
(221 BC - 206 BC)
1st united empire by Qin Shi Huang
Feudal gov structure
subsequently followed over 2000y
system of prefectures and counties
system of regulations and decrees
standardize
written scripts
weights and measures
currency
initiated
Building of the
GREAT WALL
thoroughfare leading to the northern grassland
QSH own huge mausoleum
TERRACOTTA ARMY
Han Dynasty
(206 BC - AD 220)
Emperor Wu
(156 BC - 87 BC)
dispatch Zhang Qian
(? - 114 BC)
strengthened contacts and tradings with Central Asia
138 BC: 1st to Dayuezhi, an ancient tribal state in western regions
119 BC: 2nd time to western regions
extended Silk Road to western region and as far as Europe
1st General history, Shi ji (100 BC) by Sima Qian (145 BC - 87 BC)
from Yellow Emperor to 122 BC
Biographies form
Invention of paper-making
Cai Lun (? - 121)
from tree-bark, fishnets, rags and hemp
~Tanti K~