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China..... the Middle Kingdom China's first farmers and first real villages appeared more than
7,000 years ago, but its written history did not begin until 3,500 years later. Like many
other ancient civilizations, early China was divided into many small states which often
fought one another over land, wealth, slaves or power. The country was not unified under a
single ruler until the third century B.C., when the king of Qin succeeded in subduing the
other states and making himself emperor. From then on, China was under imperial rule for
most of its history. The last Manchu-Chinese emperor was dethroned in 1911, when Pictorial tours of China -- beautiful pictures with brief histories. The dialects and written characters of China: Chinese Character Genealogy - An Etymological
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