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For most of its history, China was organized into various dynastic states under the rule of hereditary monarchs.Beginning with the establishment of dynastic rule by Yu the Great c. 2070 BC, [1] and ending with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor in AD 1912, Chinese historiography came to organize itself around the succession of monarchical dynasties.
Imagined portrait of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of a unified China. Depiction from the Qing dynasty. The Chinese monarchs were the rulers of China during Ancient and Imperial periods. [a] The earliest rulers in traditional Chinese historiography are of mythological origin, and followed by the Xia dynasty of highly uncertain and contested ...
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.
The final and most important move was to Yin during the reign of Wu Ding c. 1250 BC. [30] ... In 979, the Song dynasty reunified most of China proper, ...
It was also the capital city of two major dynasties in Southern and Northern dynasties period: Eastern Wei dynasty (534–550), and the Northern Qi dynasty (550–577). Yinchuan was the capital of the Western Xia from 1038 to 1227, when it was called Xingqing ( simplified Chinese : 兴庆 ; traditional Chinese : 興慶 ; pinyin : Xīngqìng ).
Military history by Imperial Chinese dynasty (8 C) People by Imperial Chinese dynasty (21 C) F. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (28 C, 30 P) K. House of Koxinga (8 P) Q.
Dynasties in Chinese history 907–960 Succeeded by. Song dynasty Liao dynasty This page was last edited on 11 August 2023, at 04:56 (UTC). Text is ...
Dynasties had/have assumed power in various types of monarchical entities, from loose hereditary tribal units to multinational dynastic empires. While most dynasties were/are reckoned through the male line, the relatively uncommon cases of dynasties formed through matrilineal succession, such as the Rain Queen dynasty, are also listed.