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c. 500,000 years ago
Peking man shelters in caves south of modern Beijing, leaving many scraps of evidence of his way of life
c. 500,000 years ago
Fire is used in China by Peking man, and may have been in use much earlier in Africa
c. 2850 BC
The Chinese discover that the cocoon of a certain worm can be unwound, spun as thread and then woven - thus creating silk
c. 1600 BC
The characters written in Chinese documents of the Shang dynasty are directly related to those still in use today
c. 1500 BC
The Chinese develop a form of scroll, made of strips of bamboo threaded together and rolled up like a wooden blind
c. 1400 BC
The Great City Shang, on a site later known as An-yang, develops as the capital of China's first dynasty
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