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Learning Chinese history is just another one of many Chinese customs for kids because they need to know what happened in the past so they do not repeat it in the future. It also makes China a better country for everybody living there, past present and future.

Researchers have found artifacts that date back to either the third or the fourth millennium B. C., which is when people first started making tools for accomplishment.

Chinese history is broken down into different periods thusly:

The Origin of the Chinese Civilization

• This period of time is from 2200 B.C. to 221 B.C.

• The people of the Shang Dynasty (1766 - 1122 B.C.) are known for their ancestor worshiping, armies that were highly organized, bronze, horse-drawn chariots and jade.

• Then when Sage Confucius (551 - 479 B.C.) came to be, everything changed in the code of ethics. It changed to where it over powered the cultures and the Chinese thought patterns for next 25 centuries.

The Early Empire Phase

• This period of time was from 221 B.C. and 589 A.D.

• This is when the Terra Cotta army and the Great Wall of China was built

Second Empire

• This period of time was from 589 - 1644 A.D.

• During this time, especially between 618 and 917, China was the most civilized and richest country in the world for that frame of time.

The Birth of Modern China

• This period of time began in 1644 and continues today.

• Between the 19th and the early part of 20th century, China was irrepressible to the verge of a collapse.

• Then in 1912, Cantonese Dr. Sun Yatsen managed a rebellion to end the Quing Dynasty (1644 - 1911), which is when the Chinese Republic was established.

There have been many different highs and lows throughout Chinese history. That is why it is important for kids to learn their culture's history because they will be able to learn from the mistakes that other people have made in the past, and hopefully not repeat the same horrible mistakes. While at the same time, take the triumphant times that have happened and use them in the future with modern items. 