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600 BCE
Confucianism is Founded
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600 BCE
Daoism is Founded
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Period: 600 BCE to 500 BCE
Confucianism is Founded
Confucius created an idea of social harmony through moral example. -
Period: 600 BCE to 300 BCE
Daoism is Founded
Withdrawal from the world into contemplation of nature, simple living, and end of striving. -
500 BCE
Chinese Warring States Period
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Period: 500 BCE to 221 BCE
Chinese Warring States Period
Before an empire was formed under the Qin, China was just a compilation of states that fought each other in an effort to gain territory and power -
221 BCE
China's Qin Dynasty
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Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
China's Qin Dynasty
The Qin dynasty was the first Chinese empire, though it only lasted for ten years. It followed a line of legalist thinking, which meant rewards and harsh punishments. -
206 BCE
China's Han Dynasty
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Period: 206 BCE to 220
China's Han Dynasty
After the fall of the Qin dynasty, different philosophies emerged including confucianism, which led to the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty was focused less on rules and more on being respectful and fitting into society -
184
Yellow Turban Rebellion in China
The Yellow Turban Rebellion was a major peasant revolt, where the peasants wore yellow scarves around their heads. Featured supernatural healings, collective trances, and public confessions of sin. -
220
Collapse of Chinese Han Dynasty
The Han Dynasty go too big, too expensive, and too overextended to be sustained by the available resources, and no fundamental technological breakthrough was available to enlarge these resources.
