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| 13702719651 | horse | domesticated in East Asia circa 3000 BC | 0 | |
| 13702721702 | Shang Dynasty | (1600 BC - 1046 BC) Eastern Chinese dynasty led by Tang who conquered their neighbors, introduced ancestor veneration, and pictographs | 1 | |
| 13702753576 | Zhou Dynasty | (1046 BC - 256 BC) longest standing Chinese dynasty who introduced China's first Golden Age, the Mandate of Heaven, feudalism, and iron technology | 2 | |
| 13702795199 | Laozi | founder of Daoism circa 500 BC | 3 | |
| 13702807354 | Confucius | founder of Confucianism circa 500 BC | 4 | |
| 13702820272 | Qin Dynasty | (221 BC - 207 BC) brief yet powerful Chinese dynasty led by Qin Shihuangdi who expanded the Chinese empire, standardized Chinese script, and built canals and roads | 5 | |
| 13702848898 | Han Dynasty | (206 BC - 220 CE) Chinese dynasty led by Han Wudi who introduced the civil service examination, the Silk Road, and paper | 6 | |
| 13702875465 | Sui Dynasty | (581 CE - 618 CE) Chinese dynasty who revived East Asia following the fall of Han China, had successful military expeditions, and introduced the Grand Canal | 7 | |
| 13702888683 | Tang Dynasty | (618 CE - 907 CE) Chinese dynasty who expanded into Central Asia, Manchuria, and Vietnam; introduced the Middle System, kowtow, and spread Buddhism | 8 | |
| 13702915644 | Heian Japan | (794 CE - 1185 CE) period of time in Japan in which the emperor became a figurehead; introduced the Tale of Genji, samurai, and developed feudalism | 9 | |
| 13702931589 | Song Dynasty | (960 CE - 1279 CE) Chinese dynasty where the bureaucracy gained power and a scholar gentry developed | 10 | |
| 13702950515 | Yuan Dynasty | (1271 CE - 1368 CE) Chinese dynasty led by Kublai Khan who instituted a policy of religious tolerance | 11 | |
| 13703023420 | Ming Dynasty | (1368 CE - 1644 CE) Chinese dynasty who assumed power following the Yuan Dynasty's fall, promoted Confucianism and other Chinese traditions, expanded China into Mongolia and Central Asia, and sent Zheng He on expeditions | 12 | |
| 13703078363 | Tokugawa Shogunate | (1600 CE - 1868 CE) new temporary rule over Japan that promoted feudalism, limited the power of the daimyo, led to the decline of samurai, and introduced the haiku | 13 | |
| 13703173155 | Manchu Empire/Qing Dynasty | (1644 CE - 1911 CE) the last imperial dynasty of China characterized by opium trade, the Taiping Rebellion, the Self-Strengthening Movement, civil service reform, the Boxer Rebellion, and more | 14 | |
| 13703209720 | Opium War | (1839 CE - 1842 CE) war stimulated by British resentment over Chinese bans on opium, causing spheres of influence in China | 15 | |
| 13703226423 | Taiping Rebellion | (1850 CE - 1864 CE) revolt in China led by workers, peasants, and other Chinese citizens who opposed Qing rule; led to deaths of 20 million people | 16 | |
| 13703238146 | Meiji Japan | (1868 CE - 1912 CE) time period in Japan in which isolation ended, the shogunate collapsed, industrialization started up, and imperialism rose | 17 | |
| 13703240254 | Boxer Rebellion | (1899 CE - 1901 CE) uprising led by the the Righteous and Harmonious Order of Fists against any foreigners inside China | 18 | |
| 13703287045 | Russo-Japanese War | (1904 CE - 1905 CE) naval war in which Japan defeated Russia, forced them to withdraw from Manchuria, and moved into China | 19 | |
| 13703317504 | Republic of China | (1912 CE - 1949 CE) time period in which China became a Republic after the Qing Dynasty was overthrown; under the rule of Sun Yat-sen | 20 | |
| 13703381097 | Chinese Civil War | (1927 CE - 1950 CE) ongoing civil war between Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong and Chinese Nationalist Party leader Sun Yat-sen | 21 | |
| 13703416402 | Pearl Harbor | Japan's surprise air attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor in 1941 that resulted in the U.S. declaring war | 22 | |
| 13703431817 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | U.S.'s atomic bombing on the Japanese cities in 1945 that caused the Japanese to surrender | 23 | |
| 13703441181 | People's Republic of China | (1949 CE - Present) China under Mao Zedong | 24 | |
| 13703465622 | Korean War | (1950 CE - 1953 CE) war fought to prevent Communist North Korea from conquering South Korea | 25 |
