Ancient China

China is the world’s oldest civilization, and as the Chinese would say, the greatest civilization known to man. China’s Bronze Age beginnings go back to 4,000 BC, when farming communities along the Huang River Plane expose the rich soil and annual floods which produces a great crop yield. Along with the Huang river plane, All of China’s Capitals have a Lain.

By 3,000 BC, Chinese society had been organized and developed enough that levees, ditches, and canals began to be used in order to harvest the vast economic potential of this great river, along which towns and cities appear.

By 1,700 BC, the rich powerful and prosperous city-state of Shang Conquered the Huang river plane and established the first, of many, dynasties. The Shang rule their state from the capital Anyang.

The Zhou Dynasty

Shang rule in northern China comes to an end around 1,100 BC. The Zhou to the west of Shang, having been influenced by Shang Culture and better fighters due to the fact that they were constantly in war with Nomadic tribes from the steppes of central Asia, conquer Shang.

The Zhou rule China during the early centuries of the Iron age. After two centuries of centralized rule, a type of feudalized rule develops and china is governed in different territories by local strong men’s rulers who control a strong castle and the surrounding countryside while ‘officially’ ruling on behalf of the Zhou king.

These local rulers wage war against each other to antagonize their territory. this period of chinese history is called the ‘warring states’ period. this is also the period when King of Fuzi (Confucius) makes his Philosophical observations that will influence all of the subsequent generations of Chinese to the present day.

The Race of Qin, Shi Huang Di, and The Great Wall

The period of the warring states ends with Shi Huang Di, the King of Qin (pronounced as ‘Chin’) who conquered Zhou (the ’separate’ warring states) and unites all of China to Become the first Emperor.

Qin rule is assured by master of fighting on horse back using the composite bow learned war fare against the peoples steppes. all this in the 240’s BC.

Shi Huang Di is a strong rules, but cruel, superstitious, and tyrannical. He builds the Great Wall ( taking decades to complete). The Quin Dynasty does not outlast his own lifetime. upon his death a rebellion breaks out against his successor’s rule, led by Gaozu. this rebellion ends in victory for the Rebels.

Gauzu established the Han Dynasty (circa 200 BC – 200 AD) whose rule coincides with the great age of the Roman Empire.To consolidate his rule he draws on the educational against native abilities and talents of the Confucian Scholars.