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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 | |
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| c. 500,000 years ago |
| | | Fire is used in China by Peking man, and may have been in use much earlier in Africa | |
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| c. 30,000 years ago |
| | | With the sea level falling, a land bridge (known as Beringia) forms between Siberia and Alaska, enabling humans to enter the continent of America | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Humans cross from eastern Siberia to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, according to the earliest traces left by the Jomon culture | |
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| 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 | |
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| c. 1600 BC |
| | | The characters written in Chinese documents of the Shang dynasty are directly related to those still in use today | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Chinese develop a form of scroll, made of strips of bamboo threaded together and rolled up like a wooden blind | |
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| 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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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | Chopsticks are in use in China, with bronze versions featuring in Shang tombs | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | Ancestor worship, a central theme of Chinese history, is practised by the royal family and high nobility in Shang times | |
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