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| 12690869862 | Shang Dynasty | 1st Chinese Dynasty Oracle bones Bronze metallurgy | 0 | |
| 12690869863 | Zhou Dynasty | 2nd Chinese Dynasty Mandate of Heaven Lost control of empire Warring States Period | 1 | |
| 12690869864 | Qin Dynasty | Legalism Began building Great Wall. Terracotta Army | 2 | |
| 12690869865 | Han Dynasty | Spread of Buddhism Confucianism Civil Service Exam Foreign Expansion Tributary System Spread of Buddhism | 3 | |
| 12690869866 | Sui Dynasty | Reunited China Buddhism and Confucian Civil Service Exam Grand Canal | 4 | |
| 12690869867 | Tang Dynasty | TAXES Completed the Grand Canal Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism Declined as higher taxation created tensions | 5 | |
| 12690869868 | Song Dynasty | Foot-binding Reestablished the Tribute System. Most powerful navy in the world- magnetic compasses. Military threats and nomadic invasions led to fall. | 6 | |
| 12690869869 | Yuan Dynasty | Mongols First time China was under foreign rule. Strong Centralized government. No civil service exam Welcomed merchants and foreigners (increased trade) Nomadic | 7 | |
| 12690869870 | Ming Dynasty | Age of Exploration Expeditions led by Zheng He Taken over by peasant army Brought back culture like Confucianism and civil service exams | 8 | |
| 12690869871 | Qing Dynasty | Manchus Expanded their rule through military conquest. Forbade intermarriage Forced Chinese men to wear the queue, or a braid Wars and Rebellions weakened empire | 9 | |
| 12691144740 | Nationalists/Republic | End dynastic system Fought Chinese Communist Party Japanese invasion of Manchuria leads to WWII | 10 | |
| 12691174965 | Mao Zedong/Communists | led the Communists in China against the Nationalists - eventually led the People's Republic of China when the Communists won | 11 | |
| 12701681495 | Dynasty | ruling family | 12 | |
| 12703362492 | Confucianism | The system of ethics, education, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents | 13 |
