Early China

• 5000 - 2700 BC: Yangshao culture

  • 5000 BC: Evidence of rice cultivation, basketry
• 3500-2000 BC: Longsham culture

  • 3000 BC: Domestication of sheep, cattle and water buffalo
• 2205-1818 BC: Xia dynasty
• 1523-1027 BC: Shang dynasty
• 1027-771 BC: Zhou dynasty
• 770-256 BC: Later Zhou

  • b. 604 BC: Lao-tse
  • 511-479 BC: Kung Fu-tse
• 403-221 BC: Warring States Period

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Secondary Sources