c.10,000 | POTTERY begins in China. It is represented in more than 1,000 excavated sites in Honan and Kansu provinces, with hand-molded red, black and gray pottery painted with pigments. See Mesopotamia 7000 | 18,000 wikPtr 16-15,000 Copilot 10,000 mxfld |
c.10,000 | HOABINHIAN culture in Viet Nam from 12,000 ends. BAC SON culture begins in Viet Nam until 8000. It has more edge-ground cobble artifacts. | 10,000 hifiVN, wikBS, wikSV |
c.9000 | ![]() |
20,000 Copilot 10-8000 wikXC, 9000 PW 12 |
c.8500 | ![]() |
8700 wikNnz 8500 wikLNC |
c.8500 | DOGS V, domesticated in Asia from 40-30,000, evidenced at Nanzhuangtou. See Asia 3800 | 8700 wikNnz |
c.8500 | MILLET V: Broomcorn and foxtail millet first cultivated in China in the Yellow River valley. First evidence found at Cishan. See Asia 6000, Africa 6000. | 8700 wikIDNC 8000 wikCsn 83-6700 Copilot 7000 wikHC |
c.8000 | ![]() |
8500 u2HWEY timelapse, wikHC 8000 wikHC, 7000 smhiNC |
c.8000 | With the ice melting, JAPAN is cut off from the mainland. | 8000 mxfld |
c.8000 | LANGUAGE: 2 cultures survive in Japan, each with its own language - Siberians in the north will become Ainu, and speak a distant relative of some tongue of the Siberian tundra. The southern language, will become modern Japanese. | 8000 mxfld |
c.8000 | ![]() |
8000 u2HWEY timelapse, wikJsn, wikKor |
c.8000 | JOMON period in Japan from 12,000 ends. Subsists on hunting, fishing, and gathering, and had pottery but not metal. | 8000 mxfld |
c.8000 | AGRICULTURE, mostly RICE V, developed in China. | 8000 wikHAg |
c.8000 | Sea level rises, creating more islands and coastline in Southeast Asia. | 8000 PW 13 |
c.8000 | Small bands of hunter-gatherers are widely scattered from Vietnam to Sumatra and east-west from Burma to the Gulf of Tonkin. SPIRIT CAVE excavations have shown deer, pigs, monkeys, bamboo rats, otters, flying squirrels, and from the sea - carp and crabs. Nuts, beans and melons are also available. | 8000 mxfld |
c.8000 | Wild BEANS first eaten in Thailand. See Argentina 8000. | 7000 Copilot |
c.8000 | BAC SON culture in Viet Nam from 10,000 ends. QUYNH VAN Culture begins until 6000. | 8000 hifiVN, wikSV |
c.8000 | Neolithic PRE-AUSTRONESIAN people migrate from China to Taiwan island. See 4000. | 10-6000 wikAst |
c.7700 | ![]() |
map: Uwe Dedering 7700 wikLNC 7500 wikNnz |
c.7600 | PIGS: Zhenpiyan culture shows first evidence on domestication in China. See Anatolia 7000. | 7600 wikT 6600 ttcDP 6000 Copilot wikPg |
c.7500 | ![]() |
map: Uwe Dedering 7500 wikLNC, wikPts, wikT 7000 wikIDNC |
c.7500 | Domesticated Λ DOGS V evidenced in China at Peiligang. Later evidence is at Banpo and Jiangzhai. | 7500 Copilot |
c.7500 | JAPAN: Incipient JOMON period from 14,000, ends. Pottery was decorated by impressing cords into the surface of wet clay. Initial JOMON period begins until 5000. | 7500 wikJm |
c.7000 | ![]() |
7000 wikLNC no date: wikXC |
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map: Joe Roe |
c.7000 | ![]() Pottery URN first evidenced from the Jiahu site, where 32 burial urns are found. Burial urns are used mainly for children, but sporadically for adults. JIAHU culture begins in China. |
map: Uwe Dedering 7000 wikHC, wikIDNC, wikJhu, wikPlg, wikTop, 6600 wikC |
c.7000 | LIQUOR first evidenced in village of Jiahu, China, made from rice, honey, and fruit. Beer: Levant 10,000, Mesopotamia 4500 | 7000 Copilot |
c.7000 | Zhenpiyan cave, occupied from 10,000, becomes one of many independent centers for introduction of animal domestication and pottery until 5500. | 7000 wikZp |
c.7000 | ![]() |
map: Uwe Dedering 7000 wikIDNC, wikLNC, wikPlg, wikT |
c.7000 | ![]() |
8000 wikHC 7000 u2HWEY timelapse, wikHC |
c.6700 | Foxtail Λ MILLET V cultivated at Cishan in north China, on the east foothills of the Taihang Mountains. | 6700 wikCsn, wikMlt |
c.6500 | ![]() |
6500 u2HWEY timelapse, wikHC |
c.6500 | WINE production first evidenced in China at Jiahu. It is made from rice, honey, and fruit, with traces of hawthorne fruit and grape juice. | 7-6000 Copilot |
c.6500 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 6500 wikBx, wikLNC, wikHu |
c.6400 | ![]() |
symbols: pub dom map: Kanguole 66-6200 wikNSC |
c. 6200 | ![]() |
map: Kmusser 6200 wikHgs, wikLNC, wikXlw 6100 u2HWEY timelapse 6000 wikBfd |
by 6200 | Λ RICE V (Oryza rufipogon), cultivated in India from the Early Holocene, domesticated in the middle Yangtze Valley, as shown in finds from the Pengtoushan culture at Bashidang. By 5000 also in the Hemudu culture near the Yangtze Delta. See India 5000 Africa 1000 | by 7000 wikIDNC by 6200 wikHAg, wikHRC 6000 wikHC 5700 wikHAg |
c.6100 | ![]() |
6100 wikLNC, wikPts |
c.6000 | NEOLITHIC Period begins in Korea until 2500. | 6000 wikKor |
by 6000 | SALT is harvested on Lake Yuncheng Shanxi. | by 6000 wikIDNC |
c.6000 | KUAHUQIAO culture begins where the Qiantang River flows into Hangzhou Bay in Zhejiang until 5000. Rice, dogs and pigs domesticated; earliest domesticated peach. | 6000 wikLNC, wikKhq |
c.6000 | ![]() |
map: Uwe Dedering 6500 wikCsn 6000 wikBfd, wikLNC, wikT |
c.6000 | ![]() |
6000 wikHC, 6-5000 wikNSC, no date: wikDmd |
c.6000 | ![]() |
map: Uwe Dedering 6000 wikBfd |
c.6000 | Λ Proto-WRITING V evidenced at Damaidi in Ningxia. | 6000 wikC, wikHC |
c.6000 | Farming villages develop in China. Millet is grown. Dogs and pigs are kept. | 6000 PW 13 |
c.6000 | Λ RICE V cultivated in southeast Asia, evidence found in Spirit Cave in north Siam. Thailand has a wide variety of foods, with many domesticated plants. These include almonds, broad beans, betel nuts, cucumbers, peas, water chestnuts, gourds, and rice. | 6000 TAWH 16, mxfld |
c.6000 | Dushan JADE V (a rock composed largely of anorthite feldspar and zoisite) is mined. | 6000 wikCJ, wikJd |
c.6000 | Cave dwellers live in Viet Nam. | 6000 wikHBD |
c.6000 | 6 wooden ROWING OARS evidenced in a Hemudu culture site at Yuyao, Zhejiang. | 6000 wikIDNC |
c.6000 | 1st POTTERY in southeast Asia. Quadrilateral adzes, polished slate knives, agriculture. | 6000 PW 13 |
c.6000 | QUYNH VAN culture in Viet Nam from 8000 ends. | 6000 hifiVN, wikSV |
c.5800 | ![]() |
5800 wikHC, 5700 wikJhu |
c.5800 | ![]() |
map: Uwe Dedering 6000 wikLNC, 5900 wikDdw, 5800 wikDdw, wikHC, wikNSC |
c.5600 | Λ Proto-WRITING V evidenced at Dadiwan. | 58-5400 wikC, wikHC |
c.5500 | ![]() |
map: Uwe Dedering 5500 wikLNC, wikXnl 5300 wikHgs |
c.5500 | Zhenpiyan cave, occupied from 10,000, an independent center for introduction of animal domestication and pottery from 7000, abandoned. | 5500 wikZp |
c.5500 | ΛMILLET V, domesticated in China from ?, becomes main crop of the Yellow River basin. | 5500 wikHAg |
c.5500 | ![]() |
5500 wikBx, wikLNC, wikHu |
c.5500 | ![]() |
5500 wikLNC 5000 wikCsn |
c.5400 | ![]() |
5400 wikHgs, wikLNC, wikXlw 5000 wikBfd |
c.5400 | ZHAOBAOGOU culture begins on Luan River valley in Inner Mongolia and north Hebei until 4500. Sand-tempered, incised pottery with geometric and zoomorphic designs; stone and clay human figurines. | 5400 wikLNC, wikZbg |
c.5400 | ![]() |
6000 wikLNC 5400 wikHC, wikDdw, wikNSC 5200 wikDdw |
c.5300 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 5300 wikLNC, wikBx |
c.5000 | KUAHUQIAO culture in Zhejiang from 6000 ends. | 5000 wikLNC |
c.5000 | Humans live in Yellow River settlements where they farm, fish, raise pigs and dogs for food, and grow millet and rice. | 5000 wikPAs |
c.5000 | ![]() |
5000 wikLNC, wikPlg |
c.5000 | ![]() |
5000 wikIDNC |
c.5000 | ![]() |
5000 wikBfd |
c.5000 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 5000 wikLNC, wikMjb |
c. 5000 | ![]() Religion: shamanistic rituals to the sun, bird totems, belief in an afterlife and ghosts. |
map: Kanguole 5500 wikHmd 5000 wikIDNC, wikLNC |
c. 5000 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 5000 wikHC, wikLNC, wikPAs, wikYgs yut, 4800 wikDdw 3000 mxfld |
c.5000 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 5000 wikLNC, wikDx 5000 wikLNC |
c.5000 | BAIJIA culture shows evidence on domestication of oxen and sheep. | 5000 wikT |
c.5000 | GOATS, domesticated in Asia and Mesopotamia from 8500, domesticated in China. | 5000 guess 2-1700 Copilot |
c.5000 | ![]() |
5000 wikHC |
c.5000 | Wet field Λ RICE V farming at Hemudu. | 5000 PW 13 |
c.5000 | Pottery STEAMERS used in Banpo. A "yan" composed of 2 vessels, a "zen" with perforated floor surmounted on a pot or caldron with a tripod base and a top cover. | 5000 wikIDNC |
c.5000 | JAPAN: Neolithic Initial JOMON period from 7500, ends. Early JOMON period begins until 3520. Population gradually increases as climate becomes warmer and more humid. | 3520 wikJm |
c.5000 | ΛJADE V is evidenced in Japan. All jade in Japan since the Jomon period is from Itoigawa. | 5000 wikJd |
c.5000 | AUSTRALIA: Coastlands are flooded by rising water. | 5000 PW 13 |
c.5000 | New Guinea and Tasmania are detached from the mainland. | 5000 PW 13 |
c.4800 | ![]() |
4800 wikHgs, wikLNC, wikXnl |
c.4700 | ![]() |
map: Uwe Dedering 4700 wikLNC, wikHgs, 3800 wikCJ |
c.4700 | Λ JADE V appears in the Hongshan culture. The center is along the modern northeast border. Typical objects are pendants and large C-shaped ornaments, realistic figures of fish, turtles, cicadas, and owl-like birds with spread wings. | 4700 wikJd 3800 wikCJ |
c.4700 | JIANGZHAI, a Banpo phase Yangshao culture, is founded, and lasts until 3600. Brass is found in Jiangzhai until 4000. It contains the oldest arsenical COPPER V ever found. | 4700 wikBnp, wikJz 4000 Copilot |
c.4700 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 4700 wikBnp |
c.4500 | Λ Proto-WRITING V evidenced at Banpo, Southeast Europe (Vinca symbols) and West Asia (proto-literate cuneiform). | 6-3000 wikTop 5-4000 wikC, wikHC |
c.4500 | ![]() |
4500 wikBfd |
c.4500 | ![]() |
4500 wikIDNC, wikLNC 3300 wikHmd, wikT |
c.4500 | PERFUME is described in a Chinese document. See Egypt: 3000. | 4500 prfms, wikT |
c.4500 | ZHAOBAOGOU culture on Luan River valley in Inner Mongolia and north Hebei from 5400 ends. | 4500 wikLNC, wikZbg |
c.4325 | Akahoya volcano eruption creates the Kikai Caldera and ends the earliest homogeneous Jomon culture in Japan. When Jomon culture recovers, it shows regional differences. | 43-4000 bk |
c. 4300 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 4300 wikDwk 4100 wikBx, wikIDNC, wikLNC, 2800 wikNSC |
c.4280 | Wet field Λ RICE V cultivation evidenced at the Chaodun site in Kushan County. | 4280 wikIDNC |
c.4100 | ![]() |
4100 wikLNC, wikBx |
by 4000 | Most Yangshao areas use an intensive form of foxtail Λ MILLET V cultivation, complete with storage pits and finely prepared tools for digging and harvesting. | by 4000 wikIDNC |
c.4000 | ![]() |
art: Yu Shengwu 5-4000 wikNSC 4000 wikT |
c.4000 | Λ JADE V is imported to China, and used for ornaments and weapons. | 4000 PW 13 |
c.4000 | DA BUT Culture begins in Viet Nam until 3000. | 4000 hifiVN, wikSV |
c.4000 | Domesticated Λ DOGS evidenced in the Yangshao Culture. Dogs are often buried with their owners in elaborate tombs. Selective breeding is evidenced. | 5-3000 Copilot |
c.4000 | AUSTRONESIAN people migrate from China to Λ Taiwan island. They migrate further in 3500, but maintain regular contact with the mainland until 1500. | 5000 wikPAs, 4000 wikAst, wikInd |
c.3830 | CLIMATE turns wet until 2900. | 3830 wikMjy |
c.3800 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 3800 wikLNC, wikSz |
c.3630 | SILK V 1st evidenced in what is now Henan province. . | 3630 PW 14, wikIDNC 2674 B76 7-287 |
c.3600 | ![]() |
3600 wikBnp |
c.3600 | JIANGZHAI, a Banpo phase Yangshao culture, from 4700, ends. | 3600 wikBnp |
c.3520 | JAPAN: Neolithic Early JOMON period from 5000, ends. Middle JOMON period begins until 2470. Pit-houses get complex, with some even having paved stone floors. Pit houses continue until the Satsumon culture 700 CE. | 3520 wikJm |
c. 3500 | ![]() |
map: Robert Drennan 3500 wikXhy |
c.3500 | LIANG CHENG CHEN is 1st city in China. | 3500 TAWH 16 |
c.3500 | Wide range trade of luxury items causes increase of social stratification in China. | 3500 Pw 13 |
c.3500 | Triangular PLOWSHARE V made of stone is used at sites of Majiabang culture around Lake Tai. | 4000 bk 3500 wikIDNC |
c.3500 | AUSTRONESIANS, in Taiwan from 4000, begin expanding. First sail south into Bataanese islands and Luzon, then the archipelago in 2500. | 3500 wikHAg, 3000 wikAMH |
c. 3400 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 3400 wikIDNC, wikLNC, 3300 wikCJ, wikLgz |
c.3400 | Λ JADE V appears in the Liangzhu culture, which lasts until 2250. Centered in the Lake Tai District, they are mostly small ornamental items, such as small discs strung onto necklaces. Typically it is polished and perforated. | 3400 wikJd 3300 wikCJ |
c.3300 | ![]() |
3300 wikLNC, wikSz |
c.3300 | ![]() |
3300 wikDx 3000 wikLNC |
c.3300 | ![]() Majiayao phase begins until 2500. Majiayao pottery designs in black pigment with sweeping parallel lines and dots. Contains bronze artifacts. |
map: Kanguole 3300 wikMjy 3100 wikHC, wikLNC, 2700 PW 14 |
c.3300 | KARUO Culture begins in Tibet until 2000. | 3300 wikKru |
c.3195 | METEORS bombard Earth, resulting atmospheric dust-veil as evidenced as cold period in narrow tree rings, and other world events. | 3195 kpol 3123 CWH |
c.3100 | BRONZE AGE begins in East Asia until 300. | 3100 wikBA |
c.3100 | MAJIAYAO culture site begins until 2700. | 3100 wikHC |
c.3100 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 3400 wikQjl, wikSz 3100 wikLNC |
c.3000 | KOREA: Agriculture begins; millet is cultivated. | 3000 PW 14 |
c.3000 | Neolithic Age reaches Korea, lasts until ??. | 3000 mxfld |
c. 3000 | ![]() |
cup Ismoon map Kanguole 3000 vart, wikHC, wikIDNC, wikLC, wikLNC, wikT 2900 tcg 2500 wikCJ, wikPAs 2200 brit |
c.3000 | Λ JADE is used by the Longshan culture. The center is on the coast. Objects are ritualistic implements, such as axes, knives, and chisels. A distinctive carving technique is used to create fine raised relief of the anthropomorphic images. | 2500 wikCJ |
c.3000 | METAL CASTING evidenced in China. | 3000 Copilot |
c.3000 | ![]() |
3300 wikMjb 3000 wikLNC |
c.3000 | ![]() |
3000 wikHC, wikLNC, wikYgs, yut 2900 wikDdw 2500 wikPAs |
c.3000 | SAN HUANG Period begins in China until 2700. It contains a dynasty of 3 emperors. | 3000 yut |
c.3000 | Λ PLOW with first metal blade invented in north China. | 3000 apwh |
c.3000 | DYE, evidenced in Levant from 10,000, created in China from insects, barks, and plants. | 3000 Copilot |
c.3000 | BRONZE V evidenced in Thailand. | 3000 TAWH 16 |
c.3000 | DA BUT Culture in Viet Nam from 4000 ends. | 3000 hifiVN, wikSV |
c.3000 | Foxtail Λ MILLET V evidenced at Karuo Tibet. | 3000 wikKru |
c.2953 | Fu XI SHU becomes San Huang king in China until 2852. | 2953 yut |
c.2900 | CLIMATE, wet from 3830, turns dry until 2700. | 2900 wikMjy |
c.2900 | ![]() |
2900 wikHgs, wikLNC 2700 wikCJ 2200 wikJd |
c.2900 | CHANGSHAN Culture begins until 2800. | 2900 wikDdw |
c.2900 | Λ COPPER SMELTING is evidenced in China. | pre-2800 wikCpr |
c.2879 | ![]() |
2879 wikHBD 2700 u2HWEY timelapse |
c. 2860 | CREATION according to the Classic of Mountains and Seas : Deity PANGU is a giant sleeping within an egg of chaos. He awakes, stands up, and divides sky from earth. Pangu then dies, and his body turns to rivers, mountains, plants, animals, and everything else in the world, including a powerful being known as Huaxu, who gives birth to twins Fuxi and Nuwa, who have human heads and snake bodies. One day they make 2 fires, which eventually become one. Under the fire, they use clay to create offspring, and made the clay figures come alive. These clay figures were the 1st humans. | no date: wikFx |
c. 2860 | CREATION according to the Ban Gu, Bai Hu Tongy : In the beginning there was no morality(Sangang) or social order. Men knew their mothers only, not their fathers. When hungry, they searched for food; when satisfied, they threw away the remnants. They devoured their food hide and hair, drank the blood, and wore skins and rushes. Then came Fu Xi and united man and wife, regulated the 5 stages of change, and laid down the laws of humanity. He devised the 8 trigrams, in order to gain mastery over the world. | no date: wikFx |
c.2852 | FU XI SHU, San Huang king in China from 2953 ends. SHEN NONG SHU (aka Yan Di) succeeds until 2737. | 2852 yut |
c.2852 | THREE RULERS & FIVE EMPERORS period begins until 2205. Mythical, morally perfect rulers of such long lifespans that they may be dynasties rather than individuals. The 3, also called August Ones, are named in Sima Qian's Shiji from 109 BC. According to Sima, they are the Heavenly Ruler, FU XI, the Earthly Ruler, NUWA, and the Tai or Human Ruler, SHENNONG (possibly same as the Yan Emperor). Names of the 5 emperors differ according to which of 3 sources is used. In Shiji they are: Huangdi (Yellow Emperor), Zhuanxu, Ku, Yao, Shun. | 2852 ntno5E, nwe3S5E, ttc3S5E |
c.2850 | Mythical ruler FU XI and his sis/wife NUWA (who have human heads and snake bodies) create humans, and give them music, hunting, fishing, domestication, cooking, and the Cangjie system of Λ WRITING V. | no date: wikFx |
c.2820 | ![]() |
photo: Gary Lee Todd 2900-2740 wikMjy |
c.2800 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 2800 wikLNC, 2700 wikBdn |
c.2800 | ![]() |
art: Klem 2800 TTPC |
c.2800 | CHANGSHAN Culture from 2900 ends. | 2800 wikDdw |
c.2737 | SHEN NONG SHU (aka Yan Di), San Huang king in China from 2852 ends. SUI REN SHI succeeds until 2697. | 2737 yut |
c.2737 | TEA V, allegedly discovered by Shennong when a leaf falls into water he was boiling for drinking purposes. | 2737 wikHTC, wikT |
c.2700 | CLIMATE, dry from 2900, turns normal. | 2700 wikMjy |
c.2700 | SAN HUANG Period in China containing a dynasty of 3 emperors from 3000 ends. | 2700 yut |
c.2700 | ![]() |
2700 wikLNC, 2600 wikQjl, wikSz |
c.2700 | Mythical ruler SHENNONG teaches humans to use the plow, basic agriculture, medicinal plants. Possibly influenced by the Yan Emperor mythos or slash-and-burn agriculture, Shennong was a god of burning wind. He is sometimes said to be a progenitor to, or to have had as one of his ministers, Chiyou (and like him, was ox-headed, sharp-horned, bronze-foreheaded, and iron-skulled). | no date: wikSng |
c.2700 | Mythical ruler SHENNONG orders clerks to classify plants by food and medicinal values. Clerks list barley, millet, rice, soy, wheat as principal and sacred crops. | 2700 TTPC |
c.2700 | MAJIAYAO culture site from 3100 ends. | 2700 wikHC |
c.2700 | Λ TEA V, cultivated in China. At first the leaves are merely chewed. | 2700 B76 IX-855 |
c.2700 | Bronze Age LAOHUSHAN Culture begins in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, and China until 2200. | 2700 wikLhs |
c.2700 | Accupuncture & herbal remedies based on yin/yang principles originated in China under mythical ruler Shennong. | 2700 TTPC |
c.2700 | CANNABIS, first recorded in China. | 2700 nrcMT |
c.2698 | Battle of Banquan, first battle in Chinese history and Battle of Zhuolu, 2nd battle in Chinese history, fought by the Yellow Emperor. | 2698 wikT |
c.2697 | SUI REN SHI, San Huang king in China from 2737 ends. | 2697 yut |
c.2697 | HUANG-DI (The Yellow Emperor) is mythical Emperor of China until 2597. Credited with civilizing the earth, teaching many skills, and inventing the wheel, building blocks, compass, armor, weapons, ships, writing, Taoism, coining money, and a calendar based on 50 year cycles. | 2697 encYE, nwe3S5E, ttc3S5E, no date: B76 V-176 |
c.2674 | Mythical emperor Shennong writes Divine Husbandman , a classification of plants in terms of food & medicinal value. Main crops are barley, millet, rice, soy, wheat. | 2674 TTPC |
c.2674 | Λ SILK V weaving begins in China. Empress Xi Ling Shih discovers a way to raise worms and unwind filaments from their cucoons. . | 3500 wikSms 2700 PW 14 2674 B76 7-287 2600 bk |
c.2650 | Legend of Cangjie , an official historian of the Yellow Emperor, inventor of the Chinese character. He had 4 eyes, and when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet. He is not considered to be the sole inventor of Chinese characters. There are several versions of the legend. | 2650 wikT no date: wikGgj |
c.2600 | ![]() |
2600 wikBx, wikDwk, wikIDNC, wikLNC 2500 wikNSC |
c.2600 | Chinese society changes from matriarchal to patriarchal. | 2600 wikFx |
c.2600 | OXEN are harnessed to plows in China. | 2600 TTPC |
c.2600 | WHEAT, cultivated in Asia from 7000, first cultivated in China. It is not popular, and grown only when other grains are scarce. | 2600 Copilot |
c.2600 | HUANG-DI (The Yellow Emperor), is credited with writing Nei Ching , a medical text listing herbs that will contribute to pharmacopias, containing substances camphor, opium, chaumoogra, ephedrine, sodium sulphate. | 2595 TTPC |
c.2597 | HUANG-DI (The Yellow Emperor), mythical Emperor of China from 2697, ends. ZHUANXU succeeds until 2436. | 2598 nwe3S5E 2597 ttc3S5E, 2514 wikT |
c.2570 | Λ SILK and other items found at Liangzhu culture site at Qianshanyang in Wuxing District, Zhejiang; silk items included a braided silk belt, silk threads, and woven silk. | 2570 wikT |
c.2500 | NEOLITHIC Period, in Korea from 6000, ends. But somehow the Stone Age continues until 1000. | 2500 wikKor |
c.2500 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 2500 wikLNC, wikSjh |
c.2500 | Pan-Chan phase of YANGSHAO Culture appears until 1500 with large urns painted in spirals with purple, brown, red and black. | 2500 mxfld |
c.2500 | PLOW: Plowshares of wood or bone are evidenced in the Longshan Culture, at several sites including Liangzhu. | 3-2000 Copilot |
c.2500 | ![]() |
2600 wikBns 2500 wikMjy |
c.2500 | WHEELS V with axles, in Mesopotamia from 5500, Asia from 3700, first evidenced in China. | 2500 guess 2000-1500 Copilot |
c.2500 | Λ Longshan, walled settlement, has wheel-made pottery. | 2500 PW 14 1800 B76 4-300 |
c.2500 | Yang shao tsun culture begins. Walled villages inhabited by hunters, farmers, cattlemen, skilled carpenters and weavers. Ceramics are superior. | 2500 B76 4-299 |
c.2500 | ![]() |
2500 u2HWEY timelapse |
c.2500 | Southeast Asia: Bronze used, 1st pottery and domestic animals. | 2500 PW 14 |
c.2500 | Austronesian people, in Bataanese islands and Luzon from 3500, start to populate the archipelago and introduce primitive ironworks technology. They don't enter Indonesia until 2000. | 2500 wikSeA |
c.2470 | JAPAN: Middle JOMON period from 3520, ends. Other Neolithic societies remain. Late JOMON period begins until 1250. | 2470 wikJm |
c.2436 | ZHUANXU, mythical Emperor of China from 2597, ends. KU succeeds until 2366. | 2436 nwe3S5E, ttc3S5E, wikT |
c.2366 | KU, mythical Emperor of China from 2436, ends. Interregnum until 2358. | 2366 ttc3S5E |
ZHI succeeds until 2358. | 2366 wikT |
c.2358 | YAO becomes mythical Emperor of China until 2258. | 2366 nwe3S5E, ttc3S5E 2358 wikT |
c.2350 | Longshan culture practices divination in China. | 2350 bk |
c.2333 | GOJOSEON (Old Joseon) kingdom founded in basins of Liao river in Korea, supposedly by legendary king DANGUN. Lasts until 194. | 2333 wikJsn, wikKor' |
c.2300 | Λ RICE farming reaches north China. | 2300 TTPC |
c.2300 | ![]() |
2300 wikBns, wikMjy |
c.2300 | Emperor YAO of China invents an elaborate game with hundreds of pieces, in which spectators bet on the outcome played by 2 opponents. | 2300 CWH, kpol |
c.2300 | PLUMBING: The walled city of Pingliangtai in central China, has a network of ceramic water pipes and drainage ditches. | 26-2000 Copilot |
c.2278 | ![]() |
2278 B76 8-1129 |
c.2258 | YAO, mythical Emperor of China from 2358, ends. SHUN succeeds 2255-2195. | 2258 nwe3S5E, ttc3S5E 2255 wikT |
c.2250 | ![]() |
2300 wikLgz 2250 wikLNC |
c.2250 | Legendary emperor Yao ends 70-year rule in China. | 2250 bk |
c.2220 | Legendary emperor Shun ends 30-year rule in China. | 2220 bk |
c.2205 | THREE RULERS & FIVE EMPERORS period from 2852 ends. Mythical, morally perfect rulers of long lifespans. | 2205 ntno5E, nwe3S5E |
c.2205 | Legendary XIA DYNASTY founded in China until 1600 by Yu, but doesn't become a kingdom until 2070. | 2205 MCAW, TTPC, bk 2194 wikT |
c.2205 | GRAIN MILLING begins in China. | 2205 TTPC 5 |
c.2200 | ![]() |
map: Kanguole 2200 wikQjC 2190 u2HWEY timelapse |
c.2200 | Bronze Age LAOHUSHAN Culture in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, and China from 2700 ends. | 2200 wikLhs |
c. 2200 | ![]() |
map: Robert Drennan 2200 wikHC, wikHgs |
c.2200 | Chengziya site in Longshan, Shandong has fragments of inscribed bones presumably used to divine the future. | 25-1900 wikNSC |
c.2200 | ![]() |
photo: Tomchen 25-1900 wikNSC |
4.2 kiloyear event begins from 2200 to 2150?. A volcanic eruption causes marked increase in aridity and wind circulation, induces degradation of land-use conditions.
![]() Global distribution of 4.2 kiloyear event. Hatched areas get wet conditions or flooding. Dotted areas get drought or dust storms. |
map: Jianjun Wang 2200 wik4.2, wikAE, wikAkE, wikOKE |
c.2200 | Severe drought begins eroding rice-cultivation in Shijiahe. | 2200 wikSjh |
c.2200 | Λ WHEEL tracks are left at Pingliangtai, a site of the Longshan Culture. See 1700 | 2200 Copilot, wikWl, |
c.2195 | SHUN, mythical Emperor of China from 2255, ends. | 2195 wikT, ttc3S5E |
c.2137 | Earliest recorded SOLAR ECLIPSE V is recorded in China. | 2137 Copilot |
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