Years Period China World
5,000-2,000 BCE Neolithic Beginning of agriculture: painted pottery Catal Huyuk
Ziggurats
Lyre of Puabi
Pyramids in Egypt
Pictographs and invention of Cuneiform
Sargon of Akkad
Stele of Naram-Sin
Tell Asmar
c1700-221 BCE Bronze Age
Xia
Shang dynasty; 
Chou (Zhou) dynasty
Warring States Period		 Shang dynasty; 
  • Chou (Zhou) dynasty
  • development of writing
  • bronze casting
  • Confucius c551-479 (Analects) Filial Piety, Reciprocity
  • Developed philosophies leading to Taoism Lao Tzu (Codified Writings)
  • Chuang Tzu (Chuang Chou) Butterfly
  • Iron Tools
 Code of Hammurabi
Olmec in America
Golden Age of Perikles
Parthenon
Rome Begins
c221- 206 BCE Qin  (Chin) dynasty

  • Unification 
  • Centralized Bureaucracy
  • standardized money, written language, 
  • clay figures, 
  • Great Wall
  • Legalism introduced
  • Shan Yang c360 "Man is by nature evil"
  • Han Feizi c233 codified the system
 Rome Begins
206 BCE-220CE  Han dynasty
  • Silk Road 
  • Daoism
  • Confuciunism made state philosophy
  • Buddhism Introduced
 Pantheon
Colosseum
Rise of Christianity
220 - 579 CE Six Dynasties
Sung, 
North, East and West Wei, 
Liang, 
Chen, 
Chi
Chou		 Nomad Invasions,
Buddhism Grows
Rock Cut Caves
Monumental Buddhas		 Birth of Muhammad
Edict of Milan
Hagia Sofia
Separation of Churches
568 - 617 CE Sui Reunification of China
618-907 Tang dynasty Repression of Buddhism
960-1279 CE Song (Sung) dynasty Neo Confucianism
Mongols
Landscape Painting Develops

Early Chinese Art: Qin to the Tang Dynasties


Shang, Bronze standing figure
(c. 1300-1100 B.C.)H 262 cm
From Pit 2 at Sanxingdui, 
Guanghan, Sichuan Province
Excavated in 1986  Sanxingdui Museum, 
Guanghan
(apotropaic)
Qin, Soldier in Robes 221-207BCE
from the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi 
(The First Emperor of Qin)


Pit #1 Foot Soldiers



 
 
 
 
 
 

Pit #1 Calvary


Pit #3 Officers 
(Decorated like a tent)