The ancient Chinese invent the multi-tube seed drill
This multi-tube seed drill has been credited with giving China an efficient food production system that allowed it to support its large population for millennia.
Early humans
Paper is invented in modern-day China
The oldest known archaeological fragments of the immediate precursor to modern paper date to the 2nd century B.C.E. in China.
Thule culture emerges in the Arctic
The Thule Tradition lasted from about 200 B.C.E. to 1600 C.E. around the Bering Strait. The Thule people being the prehistoric ancestors of the Inuit who now live in Northern Labrador.
Masinissa founds the kingdom of Numidia
Numidia (202 B.C.E. – 40 B.C.E., Berber: Inumiden) was an ancient Berber kingdom of the Numidians, located in what is now Algeria and a smaller part of Tunisia, Libya, and Morocco in the Berber world.
The Silk Road is formally established – connecting China, the Middle East, and other ancient civilizations
The network was used regularly from 130 B.C.E., when the Han Dynasty of China officially opened trade with the west, to 1453 C.E., when the Ottoman Empire boycotted trade with the west and closed the routes.
Compass invented in China
Used in Ancient China as early as the Qin dynasty or before, compasses were originally developed for aligning buildings with directions and as a tool used in fortune telling.
Kombucha, known as “the Tea of Immortality” is invented, perhaps in modern-day China
The first recorded use of kombucha comes from China in 221 B.C.E. during the Tsin Dynasty.
Buni culture flourishes in West Java in modern-day Indonesia
The Buni culture is a prehistoric clay pottery culture that flourished in coastal northern West Java, Jakarta and Banten around 400 B.C.E. to 100 C.E.and probably survived until 500 C.E.
The Chola dynasty comes to power in modern-day India
The Chola dynasty was one of the longest-ruling dynasties in the history of southern India.
Early Sri Lankans compile the Dipavamsa
The Dipavamsa is the oldest historical record of Sri Lanka. Together with the Mahavamsa, it is the source of many accounts of ancient history of Sri Lanka and India.