History of ancient China
China history
Ancient China was one of the oldest civilisation in our history. The history of ancient China can be traced back over 4000 years ago what is now the territory of China was inhabited by early hominids more than a million years ago studies show that some stone tools dated to 1.3 million years ago.
Early evidence of proton Chinese agriculture dated to about 7,000 BC and it seems that the earliest evidence of cultivated ROIs is from 8,000 years ago. Farming was the main reason for the growth of cultures and population in China. Farming gave the rice to the gyaku culture. Which developed a Chinese proton-writing and the Pearl rivers, provided the necessary fertile lands for agriculture because of this many other cultures were created and expanded.
In this area large communities flourish from five to three thousand BC with evidence of agriculture constructed buildings and burial of the dead. In late Neolithic times the Yellow River began to establish itself as a centre of youngish culture and the first villages were founded. Later yangshao culture was superseded by the longshan culture which was also centred on the Yellow River from about 3000 BC to 2000 BC. in the Bronze age artefacts have been found mythology begins to appear in the Yangtze Valley.
In the 6th century BC the history of ancient China, the organised society could start with Axia dynasty which is believed to be the first. This dynasty was considerate mythical by historians until some excavations were made and after some research is believed that it existed the Xia dynasty and then after the Battle of Mintel between them and the Shang tribe which resulted in a shank victory. The shang dynasty ruled China for about 600 years. The Zhu dynasty was the longest lasting dynasty in Chinese history.
The spring and autumn period is marked by filling a part of this central power. China broke up in hundreds of small states in time. The larger and more powerful states annexed and claims to serenity. The small ones big personalities like on futures or soon to lived in this period ruled by instability known as the barring States. The Qin Dynasty unified these states and created a Great Wall of China the Han Dynasty was a period of economic growth stability and prosperity for Chinese people. The Han dynasties named the Golden age in Chinese history by building the foundation of China as a unified and powerful state. Science art and culture all advanced as it wasn't seen before in this part of the world.
One example mathematical innovations the dynasty named Han had been taken as the name of the Chinese people. We know today as Han Chinese the Han expanding to the west and the Silk Road was opened the three kingdoms by the second century. The Empire declined and three kingdoms were born they shoe and vous in 266. The Jin dynasty over to the way and later unify the country in 280. But for a short period of time northern China divided into a series of independent kingdoms. Most of which were founded by CEO no zombie GA da and Shang rulers which were ethnically speaking Hmong goes Turks or Tibetan.
This period is known as the sixteen kingdoms period and it's marked by instability. In the early 5th century China entered the period known as the northern and southern dynasties in which many regimes ruled the northern and the southern halls of the country. In the south the Jin gave way to the live song southern Qi Liang and Chen while in the northern nomadic people called Sam Bay will unify the kingdoms with the name of northern wei. The northern wei eventually split into eastern and western way. These regimes were dominated by CM bay or Han Chinese who had married in tocsy Ambe families.
From this one we can learn that the marriage between royal families could change Porter's or regimes pretty much as in medieval. Europe during this time the GMB will be assimilated by the Han people. Buddhism spread through the land of China despite the division of the country. Sui dynasty unified China again ending the three centuries of political division. sui China was known for its numerous mega construction projects intended for grains shipment and transporting troops.
The Grand Canal was constructed linking the capital stack Singh and Luo yang to the wallet East Southeast region and in another route to the northeast border. The Great wall was also expanded while series of military conquests and diplomatic manners were made. However the massive invasion of the Korean, Peninsula failed and that led to the fall of this dynasty. Most Chinese regard the tang dynasty as the high point of imperial China. The tang dynasty was founded by Emperor Gaozu on 18 June 618. It was a golden age of Chinese civilisation and one of the most prosperous period of China with significant developments.
Cheng and the capital is believed to be the largest city in the world during its time due to internal revolt. China will break up again the period is known as Five Dynasties and ten kingdoms. The period of political disunity lasted from 907 to 965 regimes Liang Chun Jean Han and to rapidly succeeded one another in the control of the Empire most stable and smaller regimes of mostly ethnic. Han rulers coexisted in southern and western China over the period of ten kingdoms worse dominated in northern China and there were mus southward migrations in 960.
The Sung Dynasty was founded by Emperor Tai zu. The Sung Dynasty unified most of China but there are two more kingdoms in the north western xia and liao sungket actually offers some territories closer the Great Wall. The campaign was a failure and Liao imposed heavy annual tributes from the south Treasury. The liao Empire some tribes revolted against their overlords to establish the Jin dynasty in 1115 which fought the sung and took the northern provinces.
The era will end with a Mongol invasion was the Messiah fell in 1227 the Jin dynasty in 1234 and finally the southern Sung Dynasty fell in 1279. The new Mongol dynasty the yuan was formally proclaimed in 1271, won the Great Khan Kublai Khan one of the grandson of Genghis khan assumed the additional title of the Emperor of China. In this period the Grand Canal was reconstructed and Kwang soo and hyung zu emerged as the largest ports in the entire China. The contact of the West happened Marco Polo settled in China and then inspired other Europeans to reach the Far East.
In this dynasty the paper was used as a method of currency for the first time. This was the father of our banknotes. Some Chinese didn't want to be under a Mongolian regime and some revolts happened and the Ming Dynasty will form in 1368. Before Mongolian invasions Chinese dynasties reported 120 million people living in China. Afterwards reporting just 60 million people due to invasion killing plagg and maybe failure to record exact numbers verbalization increased. As the population grew again China became a power once more, making contact with the outside world, Japan states from Indochina and exploring the Indian Ocean and even the east coast of Africa and Arabia.
This was the exploration of Shanghai the Manchurian proclaimed the qin dynasty which ruled all of china and was the last imperial dynasty. Chinese defeated a new power in the region Russia and establish a border in the north by the end of the 18th century. China was a world power one-third of the world's population existed in Chinese Empire and they had the largest economy in the world. But after this it was a collapse again for the Chinese. China was defeated by British in the First Opium War losing Hong Kong Tran wars and rebellions religious wars.
All made the empire weaker and weaker channel losing millions of people in these years. The Western powers sought to claim some territories in these regions. At the end of the 19th century China lost the first Sino-Japanese war against Japan. The new power on the East seeing all the struggles failing of reformation and instability. The dynasty was over too and the Republic was proclaimed in 1912 and in 2000 years of dynastic rule over China. At the end of the First World War a large wave of dissatisfaction hit China because at the treaty of Versailles.
The German territories in China were given to Japan instead after the war many communist revolts started in China and thoughts happened between government and communist revolutionaries which tried to make like a Chinese Soviet country. But when the second Sino-Japanese war started the nice foreign and united front against their common enemy.
The second Sino-Japanese war is part of the world war two where Japanese forces tried to invade China but they failed. After 1945 when Japanese forces surrender a civil war happened in China and the Communists had established control over most of the country. In the final the nationalist government retreated to Taiwan on 1st October 1949.
Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China from that time on a large growth of population happened from 500 million people to 1.3 billion. Today China started to build industries and factories and building up its economy. It was accepted as the real China in 1972 and was admitted to the United Nations in place of Republic of China.
Today's day 1 the Communist China took a different step than the other communist countries making more liberal reforms and opening their market by doing so the economy grew rapidly with more than 10 percent per year for more than 20 years. Today China is a war power as it was back in the time and I really think China as a country has one of the most richest history in the entire world.
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