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Building the Chronology of Early Chinese History - Coggle Diagram
Building the Chronology of
Early Chinese History
If a culture was existed for many years, the interest of knowing what happened here in the past helps us to learn and reflect
Chinese civilization is a civilization that advances faster than others
The birth of Chinese civilization has been in question for more than two thousand years, a project was created to create a credible hypothesis for the public.
By making a group of 200 specialists in history, astronomy and archeology, a great investigation was carried out on a theory from 2070 B.C. was criticized by media and people specialized in china
the project had to demonstrate that this theory was supported by historical progenies and furthermore to discuss the principles of the debates on the theory
This theory is intertwined with politics such as trying to lie by saying that it is older than it is or minimizing its great history.
all the dates put in the hypothesis have foundations but these foundations are not confirmed, these are made of archaeological and historical elements
historical and archaeological data are two very different types of data that sometimes do not match the dates
The archaeological data help them to substantiate their hypothesis since with them they can detect which years with a little margin of error
Technological innovation helped his research a lot but even so these two types of sources are completely different for research
The collaboration between different areas is something very beneficial for the project and also the dates seem to be justified according to what we know.
The shiji was a historical record compiled by Sima Qian at the end of the Han era that is used for records and research today.
Sima Qian admits that he could not get the entire chronology due to the lack of material, so he could only count the duration of the reigns and some kings
The students have tried to solve what Sima Qian could not, such as the conquest of Shang by Zhou, which was one of the most important events in China.
The government commissioned a project to investigate the Xia-Shang-Zhou eras to generate dates. The supervisor of this project, Song Jians, was interested in early Chinese civilization. He agreed to the government members to investigate.
Thanks to him, a research group of early china revising texts and anything that mentions the topic
After much research and effort, they published the chronological table that resolved the basic places in the original
That chronological table, according to current data, is the most accurate up to now, although some believe that it is due to politics and position, according to the information, it is not a political case.
when creating a nation it is important to know the beginning of the nation or the past of it
the study of the past does not have to be influenced by nationalism in the investigation of the past of china many people affirm that they propose this hypothesis because of politics or nationalism
Nationalism in Europe helped some archaeologists to study more thoroughly in different towns, making the investigations more accurate.
after realizing that politics and science are connected, we could not sue the investigation since they are connected although some do not notice it
political interference is not as common today as it used to be so we would not believe that it is influenced
history and archeology are different subjects as history is about dates, people and places while archeology is about time patterns
For example, the fuhao-a tuba, thanks to history and archeology, they were able to learn a lot from that individual.
the information data on early china was arranged in a way that the early chinese invented
Modern Chinese historians analyze and compare if the sources and information supporting the chronology are real.
Chinese historians challenged the perspective with which the chronology is viewed
Gu Jiang-el mentions that "It is curious that the later the epoch, the longer the legendary period of early history will be"
the historian mentioned that Chinese history is told from person to person up to the present
Some documents that have been passed down for generations are erroneous so they have been erased but the confirmed ones are kept in bronze tablets
At first the chronology was like nationalism and hidden as something necessary because of the pain they felt when they saw that the Egyptians had an exact chronology.
the country was behind with the chronological studies of its early sivilisasion, it was good to investigate this as it helps to foster interest in asia china in addition to other benefits that come with it
anthropological archaeology, allows us
broad narrow historical moments towards fuller explanations.
In the ancient texts there were descriptions of Xia, Shang and Zhou as being three great states in China, but they did not specify what it was like or what date it was.
The duty of archeology in Chinese chronology is to verify classical documents and complement history, and that was what contributed and helped the proposed dates.