Timeline of Ancient China
3000 B.C.: Ancient Chinese civilizations Emerge. Early Chinese people had built their homes near the Huang river valley.
2000 B.C.: Xia or legendary period started. The legendary period is the time when Chinese stories about heros and gods enriched life.
1700 B.C.: Xia period ended.
1500 B.C.: The shang dynasty began around this time. during this dynasty was the bronze age, when people used bronze for a lot of things such as, cups, tools, and weapons.
1027 B.C.: a Zhou (pronounced JO) army had taken over China and the last Shang legions. The Zhou dynasty lasted more than 800 years. The first part of the dynasty is called Western Zhou dynasty.
770 B.C.: The Zhoue dynasty prospers and changes from western Zhoue dynasty to Eastern Zhou dynasty.
221 B.C.: The Zhou dynasty ends, and the new dynasty comes in, the Qin dynasty [Learn more in the early dynasties page]
220 B.C.: Han dynasty began after Qin died
206 B.C.:han dynasty ended
141 B.C.: Wu Di becomes China's new emperor.
87 B.C.: Wu Di is no longer China's emperor.
200 A.D.: China uses the Silk Route to trade with other nations.
1899 A.D.: people near a town called Anyang had found Dragon bones or oracle bones. The bones were placed over a fire and had a question written on them, the fire would crack the bone and determining on the cracks the bones had predicted the answer.