Outline of ancient China

• List of Bronze Age sites in China

• Regions of ancient China during the Xia and Shang dynasties
  • Nine Provinces
    1. Ji Province
    2. Jing Province
    3. Liang Province
    4. Qing Province
    5. Xu Province
    6. Yan Province
    7. Yang Province
    8. Yong Province
    9. Yu Province

• Political thought in ancient China
  • Mandate of Heaven
• Ancient Chinese states
• Interstate relations during the Spring and Autumn period
• Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors
• Aristocracy in ancient China (nobility)

• Kings of the Xia dynasty
  • Yu the Great
  • Qi
  • Tai Kang
  • Zhong Kang
  • Xiang
  • Shao Kang
  • Zhu
  • Huai
  • Mang
  • Xie
  • Bu Jiang
  • Jiong
  • Jin
  • Kong Jia
  • Gao
  • Fa
  • Jie
• Kings of the Shang Dynasty
  • Early Shang period
    • Da Yi
    • Da Ding
    • Da Jia
    • Bu Bing
    • Da Geng
    • Xiao Jia
    • Da Wu
    • Lü Ji
    • Zhong Ding
    • Bu Ren
    • Jian Jia
    • Zu Yi
    • Zu Xin
    • Qiang Jia
    • Zu Ding
    • Nan Geng
    • Xiang Jia
  • Yin period
    • Pan Geng
    • Xiao Xin
    • Xiao Yi
    • Wu Ding
    • Zu Geng
    • Zu Jia
    • Lin Xin
    • Kang Ding
    • Wu Yi
    • Wen Wu Ding
    • Di Yi
    • Di Xin

• Traditional Chinese law

• Ancient Chinese armor
• Crossbow
• Military thought
  • During the Zhou Dynasty
    • Six Secret Teachings – attributed to Lü Shang (aka Jiang Ziya), a top general of King Wen of Zhou, founder of the Zhou dynasty
  • During Warring States period – great period for military strategy; of the Seven Military Classics of China, four were written during this period:
    • The Art of War – attributed to Sun Tzu, a highly influential study of strategy and tactics.^[1]
    • Wuzi – attributed to Wu Qi, a statesman and commander who served the states of Wei and then Chu.
    • Wei Liaozi – of uncertain authorship.
    • The Methods of the Sima – attributed to Sima Rangju, a commander serving the state of Qin.

History of ancient China

• Neolithic China (c. 8500 – c. 2070 BC) – predates ancient China
• Bronze Age China
  • Xia dynasty (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC)
  • Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC)
  • Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 256 BC|BCE)
    • Western Zhou (1046–771 BC)
• Iron Age China
  • Zhou dynasty (continued)
    • Eastern Zhou
      • Spring and Autumn period (771 – 476 BC)
      • Warring States period (475 – 221 BC)

See also Regions of ancient China, above

• Ancient history of Beijing
• Ancient history of Shanghai
• Ye

See the rest of this outline

• Records of the Grand Historian
• The Cambridge History of Ancient China
• Twenty-Four Histories

• Architecture in ancient China
  • Ancient Chinese wooden architecture
• Dogs in ancient China
• Games in ancient China
  • Chuiwan
  • Cuju
  • Go
  • Liubo
• Mythology of China
  • Chinese creation myth
  • Chinese dragon
• Ancient Chinese urban planning
• Women in ancient and imperial China

• Juggling in ancient China
• Music in ancient China
  • Yayue

• Old Chinese or Archaic Chinese
• Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese
• History of names in ancient China
  • History of Chinese personal names
  • History of Chinese surnames in ancient China
    • Origin of Chinese surnames
    • Eight Great Surnames of Chinese Antiquity
• Evolution of written Chinese
  • Oracle bone script – earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script yet discovered is the body of inscriptions carved on oracle bones from the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200–1050 BC).
  • Chinese bronze inscriptions
  • Seal script

• Ancient Chinese classics

• • Ancient Chinese philosophers
• Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors

Ancient Chinese philosophy

• Hundred Schools of Thought
• School of Names
• Ancient Chinese philosophers

• Economic history of ancient China
• Coinage in ancient China

• Chariots in ancient China
  • Xi Zhong
• Bamboo and wooden slips
• Crossbow

• Outline of ancient history
  • Outline of ancient Egypt
  • Outline of ancient Greece
  • Outline of ancient India
  • Outline of ancient Rome
• Early Imperial period
  • Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
  • Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 CE)
    • End of the Han dynasty (189 - 220 CE)

1. Ancient China's Geography
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