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| | China |
 | | During the 7th and 6th centuries BC, brief periods of stability were achieved by organizing interstate alliances under the hegemony of the strongest member. |
 | | During the 4th century BC, the state of Qin (Ch'in), one of the newly emergent peripheral states of the northwest, embarked on a program of administrative, economic, and military reform suggested by a leading legalist theoretician. |
 | | In the late 2nd century BC an imperial university was established, in which prospective bureaucrats were trained in the five classics of the Confucian school. |
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