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2650 BC| c. 2650 BC | China [farming] | The wife of Chinese emperor Huang Di reputedly discovers how to produce silk, and the domestication of the silkworm begins. | | c. 2650 BC | Egypt [language studies] | The Egyptian Books of Wisdom are written, using papyrus as a writing material. Written for religious instruction, one of them is credited to the Egyptian physician and architect Imhotep. | | c. 2650 BC | Egypt [medicine] | The Egyptian healer Imhotep is the first to attempt to find nonreligious causes of disease. | | c. 2650 BC | China [medicine] | Chinese emperor Huang Di begins the canon of internal medicine, with the text Nei Jing/Inner Canon of Medicine, which balances ideas of yin and yang. Most subsequent Chinese medical literature is founded on it. There is some evidence, however, suggesting that the Nei Jing may actually date from only the 3rd century BC. |
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