Simplified Chronology

           China                                       Chinese Culture                       Western Europe Paleolithic 500,000-5000BC              Stone Tools                             CavePaintings

    L’antien Man                                                                                   (Altamira, Lascaux)

    Peking Man

    Homo Sapiens

 

Neolithic 5000-1000BC                      Metallurgy in Bronze               Megaliths, Pottery

    Yungshao Culture                            Pottery, Jade Carvings          (Stonehenge, Carnac)

    Lungshan Culture                                                                             Minoan Culture

    Liang-chu Culture

 

Shang Dynasty c.1480-1050BC           Bronze vessels, Writing          Bronze Age

     Tomb building                                Divination (Scapulamancy)     Urnfield Culture

     Ritual sacrifice                               Statuettes                                 Mycenaean Culture

 

Chou Dynasty c.1122-221BC              Book of Songs                         Iron Age

     Western Chou                                 Confucius (6^th Cent.)               Hallstatt  Culture

     Spring and Autumn Period             Lao-Tzu                                   La Tène Culture

     Warring States Period                    Mencius                                   Phoenicians

                                                                                                            Classical Greece

                                                                                                            Roman Republic

                                                                                                            Alexander the Great

 

Ch’in Dynasty 221-206BC                  Unified empire                        Second Punic War

                                                            Great Wall                                  (218-201BC)

Centralisation 

Regularised script

                                                            F’eng shui (Geomancy)                                  

 

Han Dynasty 202BC-220AD               Buddhism 65AD                      Defeat of Carthage

     Emperor Wu-ti (r.141-87BC)        Ssu-Ma-Ch’ien (historian)             (146BC)

     Warfare against the Huns               (c.145- c.86BC)                      Fall of Roman Rep.

     Silk Road trade with the West                                                        Imperial Rome

     Ch’ang-an established

 

Period of Division 220-581AD          T’ao Ch’ien (365-427AD)      Late Roman Empire

     Disunity and internal warfare         Expansion of Buddhism           Early Byzantium

     Kingdom of Wu (222-280AD)                                                       Attila’s invasion

     Kindom of Shu (221-263AD)                                                         Barbarian migration

 

Sui Dynasty 581-618AD                     Grand Canal, Road system      Mohammed

     Re-unification of the Empire          Rebuilding of Ch’ang-an         (570-632AD)

 

T’ang Dynasty 618-907AD                 Ch’an Buddhism                      Middle Byzantium

     Empress Wu (c.627-705AD)         Wang Wei (699-759AD)         Rise of Islam

     Hsüan-tsung (685-761AD)           Li Po (701-762AD)                 Kgdm. of the Franks

     reigned 712-756AD                       Tu Fu (712-770 AD)               Langobard Kgdm.

     An Lu-shan rebellion 755AD         Po Chü-Yi (772-846 AD)       in Italy (568-774)

     Flight of Emperor 756 AD                                                             Jutes,Angles,Saxons

     Loss of Central Asian terr.                                                             invade England.

     Weakened dynasty to 907                                                               Battle of Tours 732

                                                                                                            (curbs Islamic exp.)

 

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

    ( 907-959AD)                                

 

Northern Sung 960-1126AD               Neo-Confucianism                  The Normans

B. of Hastings 1066

                                                                                                            First Crusade

Southern Sung 1127-1179AD              Landscape painting                  Second Crusade                                                                                                         

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