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Period: 2100 BCE to 1600 BCE
Start of China's first dynasty. The Xia Dynasty.
The estimated time of the start of China's first dynasty, the Xia Dynasty. -
563 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama is born
Siddhartha Gautama (later known as Buddha) is born. His teachings will form Buddhism. -
Period: 481 BCE to 221 BCE
Start of the Warring States.
The start of the warring states lasting 260 years. An almost continuous conflict for the rule of China. -
Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
Start of the Qin Dynasty.
Start of the rule for the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. -
220 BCE
The start of the Great Wall of China.
Qin Shi Huang begins work to build the Great Wall of China. -
100 BCE
Steel comes to China.
The manufacture of steel begins in China -
220
The Kingdom is divided.
End of Han dynasty. Kingdom is divided into 3 parts which all want to take over China. -
Period: 1271 to 1368
Start of Yuan Dynasty.
The first foreign dynasty to rule over China. Established by Mongol leader Kublai Khan. -
1279
Mongols have complete control of China.
Fierce nomadic people known as Mongols gain control of China through new Dynasty. -
Start of Qing Dynasty
Last Dynasty of China and a period of rule by an ethnic minority.