The Unification of China

  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    Confucius

  • Period: 403 BCE to 221 BCE

    Period of the Warring States

  • Period: 390 BCE to 338 BCE

    Shang Yang

  • Period: 372 BCE to 289 BCE

    Mencius

  • Period: 298 BCE to 238 BCE

    Xunzi

  • Period: 280 BCE to 233 BCE

    Han Feizi

  • Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE

    Qin Dynasty

  • Period: 206 BCE to 9

    Former Han Dynasty

  • Period: 141 BCE to 87 BCE

    Reign of Han Wudi

  • Period: 9 to 23

    Reign of Wang Mang

  • Period: 25 to 220

    Later Han Dynasty