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Agriculture in China developed gradually, with initial domestication of a few grains and animals gradually expanding with the addition of many others over subsequent millennia. [9] The earliest evidence of cultivated rice, found by the Yangtze River, was carbon-dated to 8,000 years ago. [10]
This is a timeline of Chinese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in China and its dynasties. To read about the background to these events, see History of China. See also the list of Chinese monarchs, Chinese emperors family tree, dynasties of China and years in China.
China China Periods: Paleolithic c. 1.36 million years ago Neolithic period c. 10,000 – 2100 BCE Ancient China c. 2100 – 221 BCE Imperial period c. 221 BCE – 1911 CE Modern period. Americas North America North America: Lithic/Paleo-Indian (pre 8000 BCE) Archaic (c. 8000 – 1000 BCE) Woodland (1000 BCE to 1000 CE) Mississippian (800 CE to ...
Archaeological excavation carried out in the trenches at Dhaba in the upper Son river valley found stone tools and other evidences of human occupation in this area 80,000 years back. [18] Asia, East Asia: China, PRC: 80: Fuyan Cave: Teeth were found under rock over which 80,000 years old stalagmites had grown. [19] Africa, North Africa: Libya ...
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. (2001) Schulz-Forberg, Hagen, ed. A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860–1940 (2015) Smith, Alan K. Creating a World Economy: Merchant Capital, Colonialism, and World Trade, 1400-1825 (Routledge, 2019). Von Glahn, Richard. The Economic History of China (2016)
The Summary. The "altar stone" at the center of Stonehenge likely originated in present-day Scotland, a study found. That's more than 450 miles away, raising questions about how ...
~500–1000: The Radhanites were medieval Jewish merchants who dominated trade between the Christian and Islamic worlds during the early Middle Ages and travelled as far as Tang-dynasty China. ~550: Byzantine traveler and author Cosmas Indicopleustes completes his work Christian Topography describing geographical features gleaned from his own ...
On the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico, on Aug. 13, 1521, the documentary "499" from Rodrigo Reyes tackles colonialism's shadow.