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- -- Emperor Yu
- -- Land reclaimed, bronze weapons made, grain cultivated
- -- First use of written symbols
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- -- First historic dynasty
- -- Agricultural society with class system
- -- First Chinese calendar
- -- Age of bronze casting
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- !3
- -- Classical age
- -- Laws in place
- -- Money economy
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- !9
- -- Rule by Shi Huang-ti
- -- Unification of country begun
- -- Feudalism replaced by bureaucratic government
- -- Large part of Great Wall built
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- !10
- -- Bureaucratic state based on Confucianism
- -- Buddhism introduced
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- !11
- -- Divided into three states, Wei, Shu, and Wu
- -- Increased importance of Buddhism and Taoism
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- !13
- -- Founded by Wei general
- -- North China ruled by series of barbarian dynasties
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- !14
- -- Country reunified and central government established
- -- Canal system constructed
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- !15
- -- Period of territorial expansion
- -- Buddhism suppressed
- -- Age of great poets, sculptors, and painters
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- !16
- -- Period of hardship with wars and official corruption
- -- First printing of paper money
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- !17
- -- Great changes socially and intellectually
- -- Confucianism supersedes Taoism and Buddhism
- -- Central bureaucracy reformed
- -- Cultivation of tea and cotton on a large scale
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- !18
- -- Founding of Mongol dynasty by Kublai Khan
- -- Confucianism out of favor
- -- End of dynasty in South China
- -- Riots in Mongolia
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- !20
- -- Decline of central authority
- -- Increase in European trade
- -- China divided into spheres of influence by foreign powers
- -- Last Chinese monarchy
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- !27
- -- Decline of central authority
- -- Increase in European trade
- -- China divided into spheres of influence by foreign powers
- -- Last Chinese monarchy
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- !30
- -- Mongols expelled
- -- Confucianism reinstated
- -- Porcelain production flourishes
- -- Great developments in architecture, the novel, and drama
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