中国古代史从170万年前远古人类在我国出现开始,止于1840年鸦片战争前夕。这是我国原始社会、奴隶社会和封建社会的历史。中国是世界上历史悠久的文明古国,中华民族对世界文明发展作出过重大贡献。自秦汉以来,中国就是一个统一的多民族国家;封建专制主义中央集权制度构成中国古代政治长时 Ancient Chinese history began 1.7 million years ago when ancient humans began to appear in China, ending on the eve of the Opium War of 1840. This is the history of our primitive society, slave society and feudal society. China is an ancient country with a long history of civilization. The Chinese nation has made significant contributions to the development of world civilization. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, China was a unified multi-ethnic country; the feudal autocratic centralization system constituted a long period of Chinese ancient politics.