Concepts of ulitmate reality evolving, Shang Ti to T'ien	Erh-li-t'ou
Oracle Bones	City of Chen-chou
Human slaughter for  Grave accompaniment
Jade Carving	Capital at Anyang in Honan Province
Bronze sculpture
Yih King
Shu King
Chou State Rituals develop	Capital at Changan
	771 Chou capital Moves East near to  Luoyang
Analects, Spring and Autumn Annals
Yin & Yang and
the 5 Phases
Tao te King
Wu Wei Doctrine	221-206 Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi builds Great wall of China by repairing and linking former defence lines. and has himself buried with terracotta army; Capital t Hsien Yang in Shensi
Silk Road Trade begins to develop	Capital at Changan
	Tall Towers popular feature during Han Period
c. 50 AD Buddhism reaches China
c.105 AD Paper Invented by Cai Lun  c. 120 Zhang Heng invents the Seismograph	Capital at Luoyang
184-205 Rebellion by Yellow Turban Sect weakens Han Dynasty
North South Division in China	489 Large Buddhist temples built in China
580's Wen Di, the first Sui Emperor reunites divided China	520 Songyue Temple in the Henan Province
Civil Service exams 626 Tang court adopts Buddhism;	605-10 Chinese build Grand Canal to link the Yangtze with Chang'An; Lesser Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi'an, Shanxi province.
	Capital at Changan
845 Buddhism banned in China; 868 The Diamond Sutra, the oldest printed book is produced by wooden block printing	850-860 Fo Kuang temple near Mount Wu T'ai Shansi; Husan-Toang Pagoda Tomb at Changan (Sian Shensi province)
c. 995 Printing with wooden movable type invented; 983 1000 Chapter encyclopedia Taiping Yulan produced
Footbinding introduced; c. 1000 Gunpowder used in warfare; c. 1090 Mechanical clock driven by water built in Kaifeng	Kaifeng capital city of China; 984 Kuan Yin Hall, Tu Lo Temple at Ch'i-hsien near Hopei erected under Liao Dyn. Tianning Temple Pagoda; 1056 Shi Chia pagoda at the Fo Kung Temple at Ying-hsien near Shansi
	1131-62, Bao'en Temple Pagoda at Suzhou
Increased State Control of Religion	1241-52 Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda at Quanzhou
c. 1211 Mongol Hordes invade China and cross the Great Wall. 1215 Mongols capture Zhongdu, later called Peking or Beijing 1271 Marco Polo visits China	1271 The White Pagoda at the temple of Miaoying at Beijing.
Mongols driven out of China Zhu Yuanzhang founds Ming Dynasty; 1403-9 the Yongle dadian an encyclopedia of 20,000 chapters produced; c. 1460 Pottery exported	Tiantan Shrine with Temple of Heaven or Huanqiutan, Qiniandian and Zhaigong Groups of temples, Peking 1420, rebuilt many times. Forbidden City: Hall of Taihedian 1406-1420 Lingen Memorial Hall; 1424
Period of Great Painting and Pottery	Ming Tombs north West of Peking. Esp. Ting Ling tomb of Wan Li built in 1584. Ow Gardens at Soochow neart Kiangsu, South China
Yongzheng comissions largest encyclopedia ever printed with 36,000 volumes; Population grows dramatically	1750 Qianlong expands Summer Palace using Jesuit Christian Missionaries to design buildings in a European Style restored 1888 and 1903
1839-42 Opium War with Great Britain; 1850-64 Taiping Rebellion almost brings down Manchu dyn.	1860 Summer Palace looted by British and French
1900 Boxer Rebellion in China 1911 Manchus defeated in National Revolution
1934 Mao Zedong's Long March