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Period: 1766 BCE to 1111 BCE
Shang Dynasty
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Period: 1111 BCE to 221 BCE
Chou Dynasty
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Period: 206 BCE to 221
Han Dynasty
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Period: 217 to 580
Era of Division
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Period: 217 to 419
Eastern Chin
Southern Dynasty -
Period: 219 to 316
Western Chin
Southern Dynasty -
Period: 221 to 206
Chin Dynasty
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Period: 221 to 206
Ch'in Dynasty
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Period: 386 to 532
Northern Wei
Northern Dynasty -
Period: 535 to 554
Western Wei
Northern Dynasty -
Period: 581 to 618
Sui Dynasty
Emperors:
-Yang Jian (r.581-604) Wendi
-Yang Guang (r. 605-617) Yangdi -
583
Wendi moved the capital
Wendi moved the capital to the newly built Changan named for a previous Han capital city to the northwest. It became the largest city in the world for its day as well as the largest in all of any walled Chinese city. Under the Tang Dynasty it was the most cosmopolitan city.
Sui Dynasty -
589
China is reunified
Wendi establishes the "Three Department" system
-Six ministries:
~Personal
~Revenue
~Rites
~War
~Justice
~Public Works -
605
Grand Canal
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607
Yangdi repaired and added portions to the Great Wall
Yangdi repaired and added portions to the Great wall. Over a million men undertook the construction. Working at an exhausting pace, it was complete in 20 days costing many lives. Both Wendi and Yangdi extended portions of the Silk Road.
Sui Dynasty -
Period: 618 to 906
Tang Dynasty
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635
Taizong
Taizong welcomed Nestorian Christians and allowed a church to be built.
Tang Dynasty -
660
Gaozong
Gaozong suffered a stroke. Empress Wu was given informal powers as regent.
Tang Dynasty -
683
Empress Wu gains power
Gaozong died. Empress Wu held power as regent through the reigns of her two sons Zhongzong and Ruizong.
tang Dynasty -
690
Empress Wu
Empress Wu usurped power for herself and became the only female emperor in Chinese history.
Tang Dynasty -
705
Chan Buddhism
Empress Wu was forced to abdicate at the age of 80.
Chan Buddhism introduced and became popular, known as Zen Buddhism in Japan.
Tang Dynasty -
Period: 907 to 960
Five Dynasties
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Period: 907 to 1128
Liao Dynasty
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Period: 960 to 1279
Sung Dynasty
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Period: 1260 to 1368
Yuan Dynasty
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1274
Kublai attacks Japan
Kublai sent fleets against Japan.
Yuan Dynasty -
1281
Kublai attacks Japan again
The second attempt was aborted by a typhoon's destruction of the fleet which was the Japanese regarded as the Godly intervention of the Kamikaze or divine wind.
Mongol rule was throughout Japan and was maintained by military occupation. the Mongols resisted assimilation into Chinese culture by retaining the Mongol language and yearly summer visits to Mongolia.
Yuan Dynasty -
1292
Kublai
Kublai sent a fleet to java to rebuke the reluctant leader, asserted Mongol control.
Yuan Dynasty -
1315
Civil Service Examination reinstated
The civil service examination was reinstated, but it required that half the degrees be awarded to Mongos and other non-Chinese regardless of their qualification.
The Mongols rebuilt the Grand Canal and extended it to beijing.
Yuan Dynasty -
1344
Taizu
Taizu became a monk at the age of 16 and was sent from his monastery to beg, wandering throughout east-central China -
1368
Taizu favored the poor over the rich
Taizu had policies that favored the poor over the rich; he confiscated great estates, and then the state rented thee lands to the landless. He abolished slavery and heavily taxed the rich.
Ming Dynasty -
Period: 1368 to
Ming Dynasty
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Period: to
Ching Dynasty
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Sino-French War
Qing Dynasty -
Sino-Japanese War
Qing Dynasty
