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East Asian History Timeline
East Asian History Timeline
The Rising Emperors
Democracy for Mongolia
The Great Wall
Starting around 1800BC, China began to be ruled by a series of emperors and their dynasties who each contributed to the military and cultural development of the nation. They also built roads and canals to facilitate trade and economic growth.
A Great Leap Forward?
Mongolian Empire
After a peaceful revolution in 1990, Mongolia became a democratic country with a market economy.
Mongolian Independence
In 220 B.C., Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of a northern defensive wall to protect China from its enemies, such as the Mongols. It took 1 million laborers (300,000 of whom died on duty) and ten years to build and fortify the original 3,100-mile barrier to withstand a full-force invasion.
Goodbye Taiwan
Mao introduced a plan for economic development known as "The Great Leap Forward," which called for increased steel production. Mismanagement of labor resources led to decreased agricultural production and severe food shortages, causing widespread famine and the death of 30–40 million people from 1958–1962.
Genghis Khan united many nomadic tribes in modern-day Mongolia, north of China. In A.D. 1211, he successfully invaded China and created an empire that extended across most of central Asia and parts of eastern Europe.
After a brief conflict called the Sino-Japanese War from 1895–1894, China lost Taiwan to Japan.
Mongolia's communist leaders won independence from China in 1921.
1800BC–1000BC
1990s
500s BC
1976
221BC–207BC
AD 960–1279
1958
1949
AD 1206–1368
AD 1368–1644
1911
1921
1895
Philosophical Foundations
A New Leaf
A "Powder"ful Invention
Ming Dynasty Rules
When Chairman Mao died in 1976, Deng Xiaoping rose to power and began reforms that eventually opened international trade and moved China toward a market economy.
Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism all began in the 500s BC, based on the teachings of Confucius, Lao-tzu, and Siddhartha Gautama respectively.
A Communist Government
The Chinese developed gunpowder during the Song dynasty (AD 960–1279), first for use in fireworks and later for weapons.
A Chinese Revolution
During this time, the Forbidden City was built and many improvements were made to the Great Wall, including bringing it closer to its current length of 13,171 miles. In the 17th century, China was invaded and taken over by a nomadic group called the Manchus.
China's last dynasty, the Qing, fell in 1911 as revolutionaries took power and installed Dr. Sun Yixian as the interim president of China's new republic. The change in government was followed by almost 40 years of fighting between Nationalists and Communists for control of the country.
After almost 40 years of unrest, Communists led by Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) won the civil war and established a Communist government in 1949.