Ancient China

This is a list of the most important ancient Chinese inventions for people of the modern world.

Learn about ancient Chinese accomplishments and technological progress made beginning in the neolithic period. This covers Ancient China from roughly 12,000 B.C. through the 6th century A.D.

About the ancient script of the ancient Chinese, its legend and history, and its position vis a vis the other inventors of writing in the ancient world.

These are approximations of the population figures for periods of ancient China.

Giles describes the Chinese Yellow Emperor as having "built a temple for the worship of God, in which incense was used, and first sacrificed to the Mountains and Rivers. He is also said to have established the worship of the sun, moon, and five planets, and to have elaborated the ceremonial of ancestral worship."

An explanation of Chinese footbinding, an archaic rather than ancient practice thought to enhance the allure of Han Chinese girls.

Emperor Chin is the Chinese king who unified the Warring states to create a Chinese empire.

The history of China from the Library of Congress, as documented in ancient writings, dates back some 3,300 years.

The I Ching is a book of divination from ancient China.

A step-by-step look at ancient China, with photos and pictures.

Susan Wise Bauer tells ancient (political) history as an entertainingly detailed story. Her approach to the civilizations of the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and China is unusual, because instead of covering one civilization through time, she shows what each was doing during a given period. It is a great read for people who want...

Confucianism is a major religion or way of life that started in ancient China. Find out about its slow start and how long it took.

The Chinese invented chopsticks and were using them by at least the Zhou Dynasty.

Peking Man is a homo erectus who was known as Sinanthropus pekinensis.

Herbert Giles was a British diplomat to China and linguist who modified the Chinese transliteration system of Thomas Wade into what is called the Wade-Giles transliteration system.

LOC data on the climate of China.

The archaeology of ancient China takes us back to roughly 2500 B.C. The first dynasty, largely legendary, but attested to by radiocarbon dating, is from the Bronze Age, the Xia dynasty. The first three dynasty are sometimes combined together as the three holy dynasties. Like Egyptian chronology, with its "kingdoms" interlaced with intermediate...

"About five kilograms of light green rice wine were found in the western China city of Xi'an Friday afternoon when Chinese archaeologists unearthed a bronze wine jar shaped like a phoenix head. The wine, which was believed to date to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-24 AD), was the best-preserved and largest quantity ever found."

A comparison of two roughly equivalent empires, the Han Chinese and the Roman with information on the very limited studies made to date.

History of China to the present. Sites relevant to Ancient History include Historical Setting, Imperial Dynasties, and Ancient Dynasties. Links to timeline and map.

From The History Channel, this graphic timeline shows what was happening in America, Europe, Middle East, Egypt, India, China, Japan, and Africa for 500 years starting in 500 BC.