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Period: 771 BCE to 256 BCE
Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China
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Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE
Life of Confucius
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520 BCE
Confucius begins to teach
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497 BCE
Confucius leaves Lu; period of wandering begins
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256 BCE
End of Zhou Dynasty
The Qin absorbs the remains of the Zhou state -
Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
Qin dynasty
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Period: 202 BCE to 220
Han Dynasty reigns in China
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Period: 141 BCE to 87 BCE
Reign of Wu the great of the Han Dynasty
Establishes Confucianism as state philosophy