1. Chinese history A quick access to 《史部》史：記事者也。从又持中。中，正也。
《世本》黃帝始立史官，倉頡沮誦居其職。
Chinese history

2. Geographic Map of China

3. Prehistoric China Yuanmou Man: c. 1.7 million yrs ago
Unearthed (2 teeth) in 1965 (Yunnan)
First hominid known to control fire
New finds (
Lantian Man: c. 1 million yrs ago
Remnants found in (Shaanxi)
Stone tools & animal bones also found
Peking Man: c. 710k-230k yrs ago
A complete skullcup found in 1929 (Beijing)
Traces of fire and stone tools found later

4. Prehistoric China Upper Cave Man: c. 80k-10k yrs ago
3 skulls and other fossils found (Beijing)
Along w/ carbon dust, stone & bone tools
Hemudu Culture: BC
Lower Yangtze River (Zhejiang)
Paddy rice & cultivating tools
Lacquerware found in 1978 (wooden bowl coated with red lacquer sap)

5. Prehistoric China Origin of pottery: 4800-2900 BC
Yangshao Culture in Shaanxi
Dawenkou Culture: BC
Painted potteries with inscriptions
Acupuncture emerged
Hongshan Culture: BC
Livestock: pigs, cattle, sheep
Jade artifacts

6. Ancient China
Yellow Emperor (ancestor of humanity) & Yan Emperor: BC
Sericulture & silk reeling
Land & water transportation
Music
Medicine
Math & calendar
Writing system
《刀部》初：始也。从刀从衣。裁衣之始也。
《徐曰》禮之初，施衣以蔽形。《書·禹謨》率百官若帝之初。
黃帝居于軒轅之丘，而娶于西陵之女，是為嫘祖為黃帝正妃，生二子，其後皆有天下：其一曰玄囂，是為青陽，青陽降居江水。 顯示全文
Huangdi lived at Xuanyuan hill, and married a woman of 'Western range' land called Leizu, who was his principal wife, and bore him two sons, both of whose descendants held Imperial sway. The eldest, named Xuanxiao, or Qingyang, dwelt on the Jiang stream.

7. Yao-Shun（-YU）
Legendary leaders (last 3 of the 五帝 5 Di’s) who passed their power to the worthy
Yao: decided 366 days in one year, and 29 or 30 days in a month; and using leap month(s)
Shun: Defeated rebels, and killed Yu’s father Gun, who failed to put flood under control
Yu the Great: succeeded in controlling the flood, and set nine zhou’s (or provinces)

8. The Xia dynasty
Yu The Great passed the power to his son, Qi (启, which means “start”), and started the hereditary system
The first dynasty of China was established, with 16 kings over 400+ years (c.2200 BC – 1700BC)
The Xia Calendar (夏历) becomes the basis for now

9. The shang (or yin) dynasty
Reigned during 1600BC-1046BC
Created the Oracle Bone scripts
Highly developed in making bronzeware, architecture, etc.

10. The Zhou Dynasty
Traced by to Hou Ji, served as agriculture leader during Yao’s reign
Lasted some 800 yrs. (1046BC-256BC), which is the longest in Chinese history

11. The Falling of the Zhou The Spring-and-Autumn period (770BC-476BC)
The Zhou royal house lost control
Five Powers became leaders of their allies
The Warring State period
Even more chaotic wars between some 140 vassal states, leading to the end of most of them
The “Hundred Schools of Thought”

12. The Qin Dynasty
The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221BC and titled himself HuangDi
Unified writing to the “small seal” script
Unified measurement and wheel distance of carts

13. the Han Dynasty
2,000-year-old ROYAL TOMBS of Marquis of Haihun in China

14. Three kingdoms period Romance of the Three Kingdoms