CEVAP:

• 5000 BCE – the beginning of the recorded history of Chinese civilization.
• 1700 BCE – the first towns and cities in China
• 300+ BCE – Buddhism enters China
• 220 CE – Mongol invasions of China commence
• 1358 CE – the Great Wall rises to protect China against invasions
• 1433 – the Chinese government opts to destroy the Chinese fleet and China deepens its isolation from the rest of the world
• 1644 – 1911 – China ruled by Mongols and British
• 1911-1949 – Civil War and Republic of China
• 1949 - the People’s Republic of China ruled by Mao Zedong
• 1966-1976 – Cultural Revolution
• 1978 – Deng Xiaoping, the new leader of PRC, promotes “socialism” with the market
• 2015 – China – the second largest economy of the world, regarding GDP, after the U.S