China Chinese Culture Western Europe
Paleolithic 500,000-5000BC Stone Tools CavePaintings
L’antien Man (Altamira, Lascaux)
Peking Man
Homo Sapiens
Neolithic 5000-1000BC Metallurgy in Bronze Megaliths, Pottery
Yungshao Culture Pottery, Jade Carvings (Stonehenge, Carnac)
Lungshan Culture Minoan Culture
Liang-chu Culture
Shang Dynasty c.1480-1050BC Bronze vessels, Writing Bronze Age
Tomb building Divination (Scapulamancy) Urnfield Culture
Ritual sacrifice Statuettes Mycenaean Culture
Chou Dynasty c.1122-221BC Book of Songs Iron Age
Western Chou Confucius (6th Cent.) Hallstatt Culture
Spring and Autumn Period Lao-Tzu La Tène Culture
Warring States Period Mencius Phoenicians
Classical Greece
Roman Republic
Alexander the Great
Ch’in Dynasty 221-206BC Unified empire Second Punic War
Great Wall (218-201BC)
Centralisation
Regularised script
F’eng shui (Geomancy)
Han Dynasty 202BC-220AD Buddhism 65AD Defeat of Carthage
Emperor Wu-ti (r.141-87BC) Ssu-Ma-Ch’ien (historian) (146BC)
Warfare against the Huns (c.145- c.86BC) Fall of Roman Rep.
Silk Road trade with the West Imperial Rome
Ch’ang-an established
Period of Division 220-581AD T’ao Ch’ien (365-427AD) Late Roman Empire
Disunity and internal warfare Expansion of Buddhism Early Byzantium
Kingdom of Wu (222-280AD) Attila’s invasion
Kindom of Shu (221-263AD) Barbarian migration
Sui Dynasty 581-618AD Grand Canal, Road system Mohammed
Re-unification of the Empire Rebuilding of Ch’ang-an (570-632AD)
T’ang Dynasty 618-907AD Ch’an Buddhism Middle Byzantium
Empress Wu (c.627-705AD) Wang Wei (699-759AD) Rise of Islam
Hsüan-tsung (685-761AD) Li Po (701-762AD) Kgdm. of the Franks
reigned 712-756AD Tu Fu (712-770 AD) Langobard Kgdm.
An Lu-shan rebellion 755AD Po Chü-Yi (772-846 AD) in Italy (568-774)
Flight of Emperor 756 AD Jutes,Angles,Saxons
Loss of Central Asian terr. invade England.
Weakened dynasty to 907 Battle of Tours 732
(curbs Islamic exp.)
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
( 907-959AD)
Northern Sung 960-1126AD Neo-Confucianism The Normans
B. of Hastings 1066
First Crusade
Southern Sung 1127-1179AD Landscape painting Second Crusade
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