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Year Date Event 500 BC: Cast iron was first invented in China. 486 BC: The Wu king King Fuchai of Wu ordered the building of the Han Canal. 484 BC: Wu Zixu died. 482 BC: The Yue king King Goujian of Yue captured the Wu capital in a surprise assault. 479 BC: The generally agreed upon date of Confucius' death. 477 BC: Ji Gai died. 475 BC
Similar expressions such as "5000 years of Chinese history" have also emerged and become popular in China, including the People's Republic of China period. For example, the popular history books on Chinese history compiled by mainland Chinese writers Lin Handa and Cao Yuzhang were published under the title of " Five Thousand Years Up and Down ".
The Neolithic Age in China is considered to have begun about 10,000 years ago. [8] Because the Neolithic is conventionally defined by the presence of agriculture, it follows that the Neolithic began at different times in the various regions of what is now China.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
By 1000 AD per capita income in China was higher than the Europe average at the same time [citation needed]. Divergence took place in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries as the European economy grew faster. From 1250 to 1900 China saw a fourfold increase in population whilst maintaining an average per capita income more or less stable.
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 ...
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)
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.