Chinese timeline review

China began as a small group of hunters and gatherers that settled around the Yellow River which over the course of thousands of years grew into one of the world’s greatest powers. As the first dynasties were created after Neolithic China, people began to gain reliable food sources and could start focusing on governments, emperors, exploration and land. The people began creating new things such as tools and other inventions that made life easier for them to live.

China’s early dynasties developed religions and philosophies such as Confucianism and Buddhism. Dynasties of China started having wars with the Nomads and Mongols in the north because their society and culture was developing and coming out with new things that they wanted. In the Third Dynasty they used iron and bronze metals for the first time. They started to create weapons made of metal that no one else in the world knew how to make. That gave them a powerful army, and with their strong army they began to expand their borders west, discovering new kingdoms and people. That brought about the creation of the Silk Roads which stretched from East China to the Middle East. The Silk Roads were a trade route which the Chinese people traveled on to obtain exotic spices and other goods that they did not have in their region. China was trading with the Western World (Europe), as well, through the Silk Roads and many cultures, religions and inventions were being mixed together.

China’s history reaches back thousands of years, which has given them a lot of time to evolve and expand their knowledge of the world to become one of the most economically advanced cultures of our modern world.