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| c. 500,000 years ago |
| | Peking man shelters in caves south of modern Beijing, leaving many scraps of evidence of his way of life | |
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| c. 500,000 years ago |
| | Fire is used in China by Peking man, and may have been in use much earlier in Africa | |
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| c. 2850 BC |
| | The Chinese discover that the cocoon of a certain worm can be unwound, spun as thread and then woven - thus creating silk | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | Rice is by now grown in the Indus Valley civilization, in the region of Lothal in modern Pakistan, and in parts of China and Korea | |
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| c. 1600 BC |
| | The characters written in Chinese documents of the Shang dynasty are directly related to those still in use today | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | The Chinese develop a form of scroll, made of strips of bamboo threaded together and rolled up like a wooden blind | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | The Great City Shang, on a site later known as An-yang, develops as the capital of China's first dynasty | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | Chopsticks are in use in China, with bronze versions featuring in Shang tombs | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | Ancestor worship, a central theme of Chinese history, is practised by the royal family and high nobility in Shang times | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | China produces superb bronzes, in the ritual vessels for sacrifices to the ancestors | |
| | Shang bronze Fotofile CG
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