HISTORY'S STORIES 1. CHINA

Each breath we exhale is history. 

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The Story of HistoryMaps

Once upon a time, I loved reading picture books at the local library. Today, I'm still fascinated about stories that happened "a long, long time ago" from "lands far, far away". When I decided to study History again, I wanted to create something to help me. This was how HistoryMaps started.

History is Fun

Learning History involves remembering dates, places, people, and events (who, what, where and when). Remembering things for the sake of remembering is boring! I thought that there must be a better way to learn, remember what I've learned...and make it fun!

History is a Story

Most history websites prioritize SEO over providing meaningful educational content; they are just awful! Wikipedia is the only relevant online History resource out there, but its thematic organization can make it challenging to follow a narrative sequentially. To understand the full context, you must navigate across various pages. I craft each story by curating events in a chronological timeline so it has a clear beginning, middle and an end.

Learn History Visually

When you show a map or a timeline, you know where things fit, both in time and place. Adding images and videos brings these stories to life; Visual Learning is intuitive, retentive and engaging!

Comparative History

History is frequently taught as separate modules, like the history of Europe or the history of Asia, making it difficult to see how these different histories intersect and influence each other. With features like World History Timeline, you see events on a global timeline map. What events were unfolding in Japan when the Ottoman tribes were conquering Anatolia? Did you know that when the Romans invaded Britain in 43 CE, the Trung Sisters were establishing independence for Northern Vietnam from the Han Dynasty of China? Some of these events have no causal links, but some do.

Connect the Dots

Exploring history is like being a detective where you connect the dots between events, trace their causes and effects, and find patterns to uncover a story larger than the sum of its parts. Histograph is an AI-powered tool that helps you understand how historical events are interconnected, revealing how they can be both causes and effects of each other. For example, did the Battle of Varna have anything to do with the Partition of Poland? Or is the Haitian Revolution connected to the Louisiana Purchase?

History for All

The site is available for free in 58 languages to make it accessible to as many people as possible. It's satisfying to see the content read in languages such as Uzbek, Vietnamese, and even Amharic (Ethiopia). Additionally, the site accommodates for the blind and visually-impaired users.

我们呼出的每一次呼吸都是历史。

每天用来自世界各地的 57 种语言阅读（全球覆盖率 94%）。

HistoryMaps 的故事

从前，我喜欢在当地图书馆阅读图画书。今天，我仍然对“很久很久以前”发生在“遥远的地方”的故事着迷。当我决定再次学习历史时，我想创造一些东西来帮助我。这就是 HistoryMaps 的起源。

历史很有趣

学习历史需要记住日期、地点、人物和事件（谁、什么、在哪里和何时）。为了记住而记住事情很无聊！我认为一定有更好的方法来学习，记住我学到的东西……并让它变得有趣！

历史是一个故事

大多数历史网站优先考虑 SEO，而不是提供有意义的教育内容；它们太糟糕了！维基百科是唯一相关的在线历史资源，但它的主题组织可能会使按顺序跟随叙述变得具有挑战性。 要了解完整的背景，您必须浏览各个页面。我通过按时间顺序排列事件来制作每个故事，以便它有明确的开始、中间和结束。

视觉学习历史

当您展示地图或时间轴时，您知道事情在时间和地点上的位置。添加图像和视频使这些故事栩栩如生；视觉学习直观、易记且引人入胜！

比较历史

历史通常作为单独的模块来教授，例如欧洲历史或亚洲历史，因此很难看出这些不同的历史如何相互交叉和影响。借助世界历史时间轴等功能，您可以在全球时间轴地图上查看事件。当奥斯曼帝国部落征服安纳托利亚时，日本正在发生什么事件？您知道当罗马人在公元 43 年入侵英国时，忠姐妹正在为北越从中国汉朝建立独立吗？其中一些事件没有因果关系，但有些有。

 连接点

探索历史就像是一名侦探，你需要连接事件之间的点，追踪它们的因果关系，并找到模式来揭示一个大于各部分总和的故事。 Histograph 是一款人工智能工具，可帮助你了解历史事件是如何相互关联的，揭示它们如何既是彼此的因果关系，又是彼此的因果关系。例如，瓦尔纳战役与波兰分治有什么关系吗？海地革命与路易斯安那购买案有关吗？

面向所有人的历史

该网站以 58 种语言免费提供，以便尽可能多的人访问。看到内容以乌兹别克语、越南语甚至阿姆哈拉语（埃塞俄比亚）等语言阅读，令人欣慰。此外，该网站还为盲人和视障用户提供便利。

HISTORY OF CHINA TIMELINE

Start ~ 

~ End  ●  Event

■Prehistory

-10k     ● Neolithic Age of China

-3.1k ~

~ -2.7k  ●Bronze Age of China

■Ancient China

-2.1k ~

~ -1.6k ●Xia Dynasty

-1.6k ~

~ -1k  ●Shang Dynasty

-1k ~

~ -256  ●Zhou dynasty

-770 ~

~ -476  ●Spring and Autumn Period

-551   ●Confucius

-475 ~

~ -221   ●Warring States Period

-400  ● ☯️ Tao Te Ching

-400   ●Legalism

-221~

~ -206  ●Qin Dynasty

■Imperial China

-206 ~

~ 220  ●Han Dynasty

-50  ● ☸️ Buddhism arrives in China

105  ●Cai Lun invents Paper

220 ~

~ 280  ●Three Kingdoms

266 ~

~ 420 ●Jin Dynasty

304 ~

~ 439  ●Sixteen Kingdoms

351~

~ 394  ●Former Qin

420 ~

~589  ●Northern and Southern Dynasties

581~

~618  ●Sui Dynasty

618~

~907  ●Tang Dynasty

907  ●Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

916~

~1125  ●Liao Dynasty

960~

~1279  ●Song Dynasty

1038~

~1227  ●Western Xia

1115~

~1234  ●Jurchen Dynasty

1271~

~1368  ●Yuan Dynasty

1368~

~1644  ●Ming Dynasty

1636~

~1912  ●Qing Dynasty

1839~

~1842  ●First Opium War

1850~

~1864  ●Taiping Rebellion

1856~

~1860  ●Second Opium War

1894~

~1895  ●First Sino-Japanese War

1899~

~1901  ●Boxer Rebellion

■Modern China

1912  ●Republic of China

1927~

~1949  ●Chinese Civil War

1937~

~1945  ●Second Sino-Japanese War

1949  ●People's Republic of China

History of China Timeline

The Neolithic age in China can be traced back to about 10,000 BCE. One of the defining traits of the Neolithic is agriculture. Agriculture in China developed gradually, with initial domestication of a few grains and animals gradually being expanded by the addition of many others over subsequent millennia.

The earliest evidence of cultivated rice, found by the Yangtze River, is carbon-dated to 8,000 years ago. Early evidence for proto-Chinese millet agriculture is radiocarbon-dated to about 7000 BCE. Farming gave rise to the Jiahu culture (7000 to 5800 BCE).

At Damaidi in Ningxia, 3,172 cliff carvings dating to 6000–5000 BCE have been discovered, "featuring 8,453 individual characters such as the sun, moon, stars, gods and scenes of hunting or grazing". These pictographs are reputed to be similar to the earliest characters confirmed to be written Chinese. Chinese proto-writing existed in Jiahu around 7000 BCE, Dadiwan from 5800 BCE to 5400 BCE, Damaidi around 6000 BCE and Banpo dating from the 5th millennium BCE.

With agriculture came increased population, the ability to store and redistribute crops, and the potential to support specialist craftsmen and administrators. The cultures of the middle and late Neolithic in the central Yellow River valley are known respectively as the Yangshao culture (5000 BCE to 3000 BCE) and the Longshan culture (3000 BCE to 2000 BCE). During the latter period domesticated cattle and sheep arrived from Western Asia. Wheat also arrived, but remained a minor crop.

● Bronze artifacts have been found at the Majiayao culture site (between 3100 and 2700 BCE). The Bronze Age is also represented at the Lower Xiajiadian culture (2200–1600 BCE) site in northeast China. Sanxingdui located in what is now Sichuan province is believed to be the site of a major ancient city, of a previously unknown Bronze Age culture (between 2000 and 1200 BCE). The site was first discovered in 1929 and then re-discovered in 1986. Chinese archaeologists have identified the Sanxingdui culture to be part of the ancient kingdom of Shu, linking the artifacts found at the site to its early legendary kings.

Ferrous metallurgy begins to appear in the late 6th century in the Yangzi Valley. A bronze tomahawk with a blade of meteoric iron excavated near the city of Gaocheng in Shijiazhuang (now Hebei province) has been dated to the 14th century BCE. An Iron Age culture of the Tibetan Plateau has tentatively been associated with the Zhang Zhung culture described in early Tibetan writings.

●2070 BCE JAN 1 - 1600 BCE

XIA DYNASTY

Anyi, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

 ●The Xia dynasty of China (from c. 2070 to c. 1600 BCE is the earliest of the Three Dynasties described in ancient historical records such as Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals. The dynasty is generally considered mythical by Western scholars, but in China it is usually associated with the early Bronze Age site at Erlitou that was excavated in Henan in 1959. Since no writing was excavated at Eritou or any other contemporaneous site, there is no way to prove whether the Xia dynasty ever existed. In any case, the site of Erlitou had a level of political organization that would not be incompatible with the legends of Xia recorded in later texts. More importantly, the Erlitou site has the earliest evidence for an elite who conducted rituals using cast bronze vessels, which would later be adopted by the Shang and Zhou.