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Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE
Confucius
The first Chinese speaker who addressed the problem of political and social order in a straight forward and conscious way. -
Period: 403 BCE to 221 BCE
Period of the Warring States
Zhou dynasty brought political confusion to China and lead to chaos associated with the Period of the Warring States -
Period: 390 BCE to 338 BCE
Shang Yang
Legalist doctrine emerged from the insights of men who participated actively in Chinese political affairs -
Period: 372 BCE to 289 BCE
Mencius
Was the most learned man of his age and the principle spokesman for the Confucian school. -
Period: 298 BCE to 238 BCE
Xunzi
Was a man of immense learning, but unlike his predecessors, he also served for many years as a government administrator -
Period: 280 BCE to 233 BCE
Han Feizi
The most systematic of the Legalist theorists was a student of the Confucian scholar Xunzi -
221 BCE
The First Emperor
The king of Qin proclaimed himself the First Emperor and decreed that his decedents would follow him and reign for generations he was Qin Shihuangdi. -
Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE
Qin dynasty
Underwent a remarkable round of economic, political, and military development during this time -
206 BCE
Liu Bang
He restored order throughout China and established himself at the head of the dynasty. -
Period: 141 BCE to 87 BCE
Reign of Han Wudi
Much of the reason for Han dynasty great success considered "Martial Emperor". Ruled his empire with vision and vigor and pursued two policies administrative centralization and imperial expansion -
124 BCE
Xiongnu
The greatest foreign challenge that Han Wudi faced they were a nomadic people from the steppes of central Asia who spoke Turkish. -
Period: 9 BCE to 23 BCE
Reign of Wang Mang
introduced a wide range of reforms and also known as the "socialist emperor"