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Conflict East Asia

Spring and Autumn Period Wars

771 BCE – 476 BCE · 295 years

Nearly three centuries of interstate warfare among the fragmented Zhou feudal states. Powerful lords known as the 'Five Hegemons' rose to dominate weaker states, setting the stage for the even bloodier Warring States Period.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Various Chinese states (Qi, Chu, Jin, Qin, Wu, Yue)

Key moments

Defining events in the Spring and Autumn Period Wars.

  1. 632 BC Battle of Chengpu
  2. 506 BC Battle of Boju
  3. 484 BC Battle of Zuili

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Polity · East Asia

Zhoa

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Polity · East Asia

Sinic

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Temple of Confucius, Qufu

478 BCE – still standing

Polity · East Asia

Zhou states

Attested 500 BCE – 400 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Yakushima

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · East Asia

Prot-Altaic pastoralists

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Landmark · East Asia

Ha Long Bay

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 771 BCE and 476 BCE.

700 BCE Great Wall of China 500 BCE Plain of Jars 478 BCE Temple of Confucius, Qufu 756 BCE Trebizond 750 BCE Meroe

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon Landmark · Middle East 600 BCE – 320 BCE Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Mesopotamian Trade Network Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 500 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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