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Period: 1700 BCE to 1027 BCE
Shang Dynasty
Record of the first Chinese walled cities.
The start of Chinese writing and was part of the bronze age.
Silk was popular.
Ruled by 31 different emperors.
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Period: 1027 BCE to 250 BCE
Zhou Dynasty
Known as the longest Chinese Dynasty.
Science, economy, and trade expanded.
King Zhou was known as an evil leader.
Divided into two timelines: the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Confucianism and Taoism formed. -
Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
Qin Dynasty
Taxation was introduced.
The Great Wall of China was built. -
Period: 220 BCE to 206 BCE
Han Dynasty
Interest of art, literature, and technology were rising. Writing paper was invented.
Buddhism appeared from India. -
Period: to
Qing Dynasty
The final imperial Dynasties of China.
This was a period of knowledge and prosperity.
However; the defeat by the west during the First Opium war in 1842 caused the Qing court to lose control over foreign immigrants entering the country.
European and American influences would also see the end to the Chinese Dynasty. -
Period: to
White Lotus Rebellion
The White Lotus Rebellion started as a sectarian rebellion in 1796 in central China when the Qing Dynasty underwent a transition from the Qianlong emperor to his son, the Jiaqing emperor.
In suppressing the rebellion, the Qing military commanders proactively took advantage of the war to serve their own interest, making the campaign a long-lasting and extremely costly one. -
Opium Trade
The traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries, mostly Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China. The British used the profits from the sale of opium to purchase such Chinese luxury goods as porcelain, silk, and tea, which were in great demand in the West. -
The Boxer Rebellion
It was also called The Boxer Uprising.
A Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. -
A New China
The Qing Dynasty has fallen.
Sun Yixian (Sun Yat Sen) takes over as President.
The Warlords of Tribal China.
Foreign Powers trying to take power.
Eventually the Army (Koumintang -KMT) took control. -
Wu Chang Uprising
The beginning of revolution -
The beginning of the Republic under Sun Yixian
The founder of the Republic and founder of KMT -
Period: to
The Warlord Era
Warlords fought for power. -
Jiang Jeishi (Chiang Kai-shek)
Jiang Jeishi took control of the Nationalist Party (the Kuomintang -KMT) and smashed the Warlords – his aim was to unite China.
He needed the Chinese Communist Party to help. -
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was a member of the Communist Party from the farming communities. He believed that China’s strength was with the peasant/farming population. He soon became a leader of the party. -
Jiang Jeishi takes control of the KMT
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A Civil War
Jiang Jeishi turned his Nationalist troops against the Communists – their growing support was a threat to his power. -
Period: to
The Long March
The NATIONALISTS continually attacked the Communists who retreated.
During the Long March Mao enforced strict discipline - his soldiers were told to treat people with respect and pay for food and not to damage peoples crops.
The communists were made welcome.
The Nationalists treated people harshly. -
Period: to
WW2
The Chinese were united in their battle against Japan –the invading foreigners. The civil war was forgotten. After WW2 – Communism grew in Eastern Europe and support for the Chinese communists grew, more and more Chinese joined the communist party. -
The COMMUNISTS and MAO had control of China.
The Communists defeated the Nationalists.
The Nationalists escaped to Taiwan to set up their own Nationalist government. -
The communists take power and the Nationalists escape to Taiwan
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Mao Zedong died
Mao Zedong, who had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease and other health problems, dies in Beijing at the age of 82. The Communist leader and founder of the People’s Republic of China is considered one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
