| Description | |
| 1271- 1368 CE, Mongols, Reunified China, Mongols adapted to Chinese ways, revived the Silk Road | |
| 618-906 CE, Tributary system, Grand Canal, heavily involved in Indian Ocean trade, involved in Silk Road trade, sponsors of culture, collapse due to military disasters and peasant | |
| 206 BCE- 220 CE, Silk road emerges, efficiently governed, mass expansion, tributary system, road system, collapsed due to outside invaders | |
| 221-206 BCE, Shi Huangdi, highly centralized, Great Wall | |
| 89- 618 CE, reunified China and expanded its borders in a burst of military conquest, short lived | |
| 1750 BCE to 1027 BCE, were involved in trade, beleived in things such as orcale bones, developed a writing system | |
| 906-1279 CE, collapse due to outside invaders, urbanization, Silk Road trade, high level of technology, compass, gunpowder, block printing, Neo-Confucianism, civil service exams | |
| 1368-1644 CE, Forbidden City, one of the longest lived, expanded borders, Zheng He, Confucianism and Buddhism | |
| 1027 BCE- 221 BCE, Mandate of Heaven, Confucianism Daoism and Legalism emerge. | |
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