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Intellectual Advances: Some of the world's greatest thinkers were Chinese. Confucius (551-479 BC) advocated his ideas on right conduct and enrolled some 3,000 students in his special schools. For 2,000 years, Confucianism was the dominating force in feudal China, exerting a significant impact on the stability and moral principles of society.
Sun Wu, a member of the landless Chinese aristocracy, became a noted military strategist. At the age of 18, he wrote "The Art of War," the earliest writing on military strategies in the world, and one of the most popular combat collections in history. Chinese scholars have long viewed the books as some of the most important in Chinese literature.
China also kept the world's most detailed and earliest astronomical records. The first people to take note of such astronomical phenomena as comets, sunspots and new stars were all Chinese. It was also the Chinese who produced the most advanced astronomical observatory apparatus of the time.
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