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| | Old World Contacts/Overviews/Second Period: 400 CE - 1000 CE |
 | | With the invasion by the northern steppe nomads in 317 CE, China was again fragmented into numerous small, relatively short-lived kingdoms of which the major ones were the Eastern Jin (317-420), the Tuoba Wei (386-550), the Liang (502-557), and the Northern Qi (550-577). |
 | | Wu denied the succession of two of her own sons and seized the throne for herself, ruling alone until 705 CE when a palace coup forced her to abdicate in favour of her third son, Tang Zhongzong (r. |
 | | The Tang Dynasty struggled on until 907 CE when political authority in China was again splintered during the period of the Five Dynasties until, iin 960 CE, the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) achieved dominance and China entered a glittering era of technological, artistic, literary, and military pre-eminence. |
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