Today, let's study the historical comparison between China and foreign countries to see what major changes have taken place.
When the Yanhuang Emperor fought, Egypt had just built the pyramids. When Qianlong approved the recital, Washington established the United States, and coincidentally both died in the same year.
Portrait of the Qianlong Emperor
Egyptian pyramids
In terms of a century, let's elaborate on today, what are China and foreign countries doing in the same period? In the year BC, the Lianghe civilization was born, and China developed in farming. In B.C., the Egyptian dynasty was established. At this time, China was still developing farming.
In the year BC, the ancient Greek Lithan civilization was born. China established the Xia Dynasty and began the era of "family world", which was passed down from generation to generation. In the year D.C., India established a caste system. The Chinese Shang Tang extinguished the Xia and established the Shang Dynasty, which was passed down from generation to generation. In the year B.C., the Trojan War of ancient Greece, King David made jerusalem the capital and unified Israel and the Jewish state. King Wu of China.
The Xia Dynasty was established
In the year D.C., Greece held its first Olympic Games. The Chinese king of Zhou Ping moved the capital and was called Eastern Zhou. In the year B.C., legend has it that Shakyamuni was born. China's greatest thinker, Confucius, was born. In this century, Athens and Sparta were born. China entered the chaotic Spring and Autumn Warring States period.
Statue of Shakyamuni Buddha
Statue of Confucius
In the year BC, Socrates of Greece died. The State of Qin began to trade martingale transformation methods and gradually rose. In the year B.C., Alexander gradually began to establish the Alexander Empire. In the Battle of Changping in China, Bai Qi killed the god Bai Qi, defeated Zhao Kuo, who could only talk on paper, and killed more than 450,000 Zhao troops, so Bai Qi got the name "Human Slaughter".
In the year D.C., the Roman Empire conquered the Kingdom of Macedonia. China's Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms and swept across the world, Qin Shi Huang was an emperor for thousands of years, and the whole world could not be the king's land. In the end, after Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising, the overlord Xiang Yu turned out to be born, and finally lost to Liu Bang, who established the Han Dynasty.
In the first year of the Common Era, Octavian was revered as "Augustus" and began the era of the Roman Empire. Jesus was also born in this age. At this time, Wang Mang, known as the "crosser" in China, usurped power and seized the throne and established a new dynasty, and was later defeated by Liu Xiu, who was lucky, to establish the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the year D.C., the city of Rome was on fire, and Emperor Nero took the opportunity to persecute christians. The Chinese Dou Gu defeated the Xiongnu, and Ban surpassed the Western Regions.
In the year D.C., the Pantheon of Rome was completed. The Yellow Turban Uprising broke out in China and ended in failure. In the year D.C., the Second Persian Emperor was established, and the Roman Empire was at war. China entered the Three Kingdoms Era, with Shu Han, Eastern Wu, and Great Wei standing on three legs. In the year D.C., Europe entered the Middle Ages, an era similar to China's Spring and Autumn Warring States period. At this time, The Sui Emperor Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty.
Portrait of the female emperor Wu Zetian
In the year A.D., Muhammad founded Islam and the Arab Empire was established. Emperor Gaozong of China, Li Yuan, proclaimed himself emperor and established the Tang Dynasty. In the year A.D., Europe entered the age of piracy. China's first female emperor, Wu Zetian, ascended the throne as emperor and changed the name of the country to "Zhou". In the year AD, England was established, and its full name was: United Nations of Great Britain and Ireland. China's 'Zhu Wen' destroyed the Tang Dynasty, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms began. Time came to the year of the Common Era, and Christianity in Europe was divided. China's Song and Liao armistices began and trade exchanges began.
In the year D.C., the European Crusade began a war that had mobilized tens of millions of people across the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa in recent years. The Northern Song Dynasty of China collapsed and the Southern Song Dynasty was established. In the common year, Japan entered the Mufu era. The rise of The Mongols of China, the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the unification of China.
In the year A.D., the European Renaissance began. Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty of China, established the Ming Dynasty. In the year A.D., Colombus discovered the New World, reached the Americas, and opened a new route to the Americas, beginning the Age of European Navigation. China's Zheng He went to the West seven times. In the year D.D., Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan and went to war with Korea, where he was later defeated by the Ming Dynasty. Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West was published in a book.
Qianlong calligraphy and painting
In the year D.C., the Glorious Revolution took place in England, establishing a "constitutional monarchy". The Ming Dynasty of China fell and the Qing Dynasty was established. The Englishman Savelli invented the steam water lifter. The Qing Dynasty began a century of writing. In the year D.C., the United States issued the Declaration of Independence, Washington established the United States, Watt improved the steam engine, and the first Industrial Revolution began. During the reign of Qianlong in China, the national strength reached its peak.
The Qianlong Emperor loved poetry and painting, and often used a large seal to cover the calligraphy and paintings, and the pen left a dense evaluation on it, which can be said to be the earliest "bullet screen culture". In the year D.C., Napoleon established the First French Empire, and Japan began the Meiji Restoration. China enters modern history. In the 1900s, the second industrial revolution began abroad. At this point China came to a standstill.
The first gasoline-powered three-wheeled car
Carl Benz built the world's first gasoline-powered three-wheeled car, the year recognized as the birth year of the world's automobile. In the ninth year of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Mitsubishi was founded. Ten years of state rule, Mercedes-Benz was founded, Guangxu was seven years, and Kodak was founded. In the twelfth year of Guangxu, Coca-Cola was founded. Fifteen years after Guangxu, Nintendo was founded. Obviously in the same era, but they do not belong to the same era.
China's high-speed rail
But today, ancient China, only through more than seventy years of time, through the development of the West for hundreds of years, has come to the modern era. Nowadays, China has the world's first high-speed rail motor vehicle construction technology, the world's first bridge technology, the world's first invention application, more than one million per year and so on... China has become the world's number one in all fields, achieving a magnificent reversal.