11 Facts About Modern China

Agriculture in Modern China developed gradually, with initial domestication of a few grains and animals gradually being expanded by the addition of many others over subsequent millennia.

Xia dynasty of China is the earliest of the Three Dynasties described in ancient historical records such as Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals.

The dynasty is generally considered mythical by Western scholars, but in Modern China it is usually associated with the early Bronze Age site at Erlitou that was excavated in Henan in 1959.

Yuan dynasty was formally proclaimed in 1271, when the Great Khan of Mongol, Kublai Khan, one of the grandsons of Genghis Khan, assumed the additional title of Emperor of Modern China, and considered his inherited part of the Mongol Empire as a Chinese dynasty.

The Grand Canal was reconstructed to connect the remote capital city to economic hubs in southern part of Modern China, setting the precedence and foundation where Beijing would largely remain as the capital of the successive regimes that unified Modern China mainland.

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Traditional social structure and culture in Modern China underwent immense transform during the Mongol dominance.

Large group of foreign migrants settled in Modern China, who enjoyed elevated social status over the majority Han Chinese, while enriching Chinese culture with foreign elements.

In 1449 Esen Tayisi led an Oirat Mongol invasion of northern Modern China which culminated in the capture of the Zhengtong Emperor at Tumu.

Between 1673 and 1681, the Kangxi Emperor suppressed the Revolt of the Three Feudatories, an uprising of three generals in Southern Modern China who had been denied hereditary rule of large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor.

The protests were a moral success as the cabinet fell and Modern China refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which had awarded German holdings of Shandong to Japan.

The virus' origin in Modern China has led to misinformation, including conspiracy theories that suggest the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory and was genetically engineered.