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	Exploring Chinese History :: History :: Ancient Chinese History :: Comprehensive
		In 770 BCE several of the states rebelled and joined with non-Chinese forces to drive the Zhou from their capital.
		The years from 403 BCE to 221 BCE became known as the Warring States Period because the conflicts were particularly frequent and deadly.
		By the 3rd century BCE, Chu was on the forefront of cultural innovation.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/01his/c01s03.html (5704 words)

	Exploring Chinese History :: History :: Ancient Chinese History
		The focus will be on development of Chinese culture as it is still known today, via the Hundred Schools of Thought, pre Imperialism and the formation of a unified China.
		The dates covered are from an indeterminate beginning date (perhaps 10,000 BCE) until 1279 CE Exploration of the Ancient Era is divided into historical periods:
		Spring and Autumn Period (770 BCE- 403 BCE)
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/01his/c01.html (90 words)

	AH 370/EA 355 Arts of China: #3 The Zhou Dynasty
		Arose in the Wei River Valley, west of Anyang.
		Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) period: 722-481 BCE (corresponds to years covered by a historical text of that name).
		Warring States (Zhanguo) period: 480-221 BCE (era of competing states, among which especially important ones are Jin, Qin, and Chu)
	www.wisc.edu /arth/ah370/ah370s3.html (380 words)

	Gewerkschaft - IG BCE - English Version
		In 1997, the IG BCE (Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union) was formed, merging the Chemical, Paper and Pulp and Ceramic Workers' Union, the Mining and Energy Workers' Union and the Leather Workers' Union.
		The IG BCE stands for the basic guidelines of democracy in the state, the economy and within society, and it supports the economic and social interests of workers on the basis of co-determination and co-responsibility.
		The basic targets are summarised in the IG BCE Vision which was adopted by the Congress in 1997 and confirmed and extended by the Congress 2001.
	www.igbce.de /portal/site/igbce/menuitem.22f2499a6b7e60f33b791789c5bf21ca (921 words)

	CRAFT-BellGlobemedia, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But BCE is likely reluctant to accept an offer worth less than what it originally paid for the assets.
		"The counter from BCE is, 'Well, why don't we just continue to own it?' It's one of the better growing aspects of their portfolio, and I think that's why a deal probably hasn't gotten done for the last two years," one analyst said.
		The blockbuster deal between BCE and Thomson in the fall of 2000 was just one of many that saw newspaper, television and Internet assets combined in search of perceived efficiencies and synergies that were supposed to revolutionize the media industry.
	www.cp.org /premium/Online/Member/media/050221/X022127AU.html (789 words)

	Early Confucianism
		'Confucius', is a Latinization of Kung Futzu, Master Kung(551-479 BCE), who was born in troubled times during the Spring and Autumn (770-481 BCE) period.
		His disciples respected or revered him and compared his virtue to the sun and moon.
		He was buried near his native town, and many of his disciples stayed there for three years mourning for him, where they planted trees in memory of him.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/confuc/early.html (984 words)

	Kronos: 0000-0499 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Because 7400 BCE currently represents the longest continuous tree-ring series: carbon-14 in the atmosphere fluctuates from year to year, and without tree ring samples, that fluctuation cannot be precisely determined.
		Accordingly, Chinese dates earlier than the ninth century BCE that are not supported by archeological data should be treated with suspicion, and all dates that are not supported by external data should be treated with caution.
		Be that as it may, while Homer attributed the causes of the Trojan War to the wrath of Achilleus and the beauty of Helen, modern scholars usually attribute it to trade disputes and generic conflagration-era battles between infantry and charioteers.
	www.ejmas.com /kronos/NewHist0000-0499.htm (19514 words)

	Confucianism in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Zhou dynasty (c.1100-256 BCE) conquers and succeeds the Shang; later generations seek to reclaim and preserve the idealized peace of the early Zhou (or Western Zhou) period.
		The Zhou is divided into the Western Zhou (1027-771 BCE), when the capital was near Xian, and the Eastern Zhou (770-221 BCE), when the capital was moved eastward to Luoyang.
		BCE), whose philosophy is often called that of "universal love," and the School of Yin and Yang and the Five Agents.
	www2.asd.k12.ak.us /library/confucianism.htm (3452 words)

	Symbols of Power in the Tomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Texts on ritual from around 300 BC identify them as cong and bi, and link them to the worship of heaven and earth; but this probably reflects the beliefs of the period in which the texts were produced rather than the beliefs of the Liangzhu people.
		Placed on altars in temples when the royal clan member was alive, bronzes were also buried with the dead, perhaps to continue worship even after becoming ancestors themselves.
		In the middle of the Eastern Zhou period (C. 770-221 BCE), around the fifth century BCE, tombs and their content underwent a significant change.
	www.foxthompson.net /ldt/tombsymbols (786 words)

	BCE Corporation
		BCE Corporation of Rockville was established in 1972 to serve the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan area in sales, service and supplies of typewriters and calculators for government, commercial and private accounts.
		BCE has also expanded its customer base to over 3,500 satisfied customers and is growing rapidly.
		BCE has a highly trained service department that allows our sales personal to stand firm behind our office equipment products and maintan our reputation of dependability and service to our customers.
	www.govcon.com /storefronts/bce.html (155 words)

	Zhan Guo Ce Summary
		The Warring States period constitutes the second half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–221 BCE), while the first half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty is known as the Spring and Autumn period (770–476) BCE, after the chronicle of the same name.
		In 256 BCE, the last Zhou king, who was by this time nothing more than a figurehead, was finally deposed, and the Chinese world awaited the final victory of the state of Qin.
		The Confucians and Mohists were irreconcilable enemies—Confucians could never accept the Mohist tenet that one should love the father of one's neighbor as one loves one's own father—but they were alike in that their doctrines did not always coincide with the desires of the lords whom they served.
	www.bookrags.com /Zhan_Guo_Ce (1625 words)

	Mayton English 500 Fall 1998
		The classical period of Chinese history is thought to have ended in 221 BCE with the establishment of the Qin or Ch=in dynasty, which began the Great Wall and attempted to destroy all remnants of the classical period by censoring and burning books (Kennedy 142).
		According to Xing Lu'Rhetoric in Ancient China Fifth to Third Century BCE, A[f]rom the Xia to Shang dynasties (approximately twenty-first to eleventh century BCE), the Chinese rhetorical experience was characterized by mythological and ritualistic communication in the form of the oral transmission of legends, along with rites of ancestor worship and divinations"(6).
		The Spring-Autumn and Warring States period (722-221 BCE) was a time of great shifts in power, characterized by the emergence of a dominant lower-middle class, the decline of the aristocracy, wars, and crises in cultural values (Lu 6).
	www.case.edu /affil/sce/old/ricemayton500.html (3644 words)

	Confucianism
		The Chou dynasty endured until about 771 BCE when some of the feudal vassal kings in alliance with peoples outside of the empire overthrew the Chou royal family and killed the present king.
		Beginning in the 5th century BCE, warfare among the states became constant, and is known as the period of the warring states (475 BCE to 221 BCE); many Chinese died in warfare or famine resulting from warfare during thi
		Confucius was born in 552 or 551 BCE, being descended from a noble family in the state of Sung; his ancestors, however, were forced to flee to the state of Lu, where Confucius was born.
	www.abu.nb.ca /courses/GrPhil/EPhil/Confuc.htm (6850 words)

	Woodbridge Makes Offer For BCE Stake In BellGlobemedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The offer is believed to have been made months ago, and Woodbridge officials are frustrated by BCE's lack of negotiation.
		"I understand the offer has been tabled for months but BCE is an organization that seems to be terrified they might make a mistake," one source said.
		BCE purchased CTV, a national television network, for C$2.3 billion soon after...
	www.webprowire.com /summaries/980600.html (238 words)

	Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest known mention of the name 'Israel', probably referring to a group of people rather than to a place, is the Egyptian Merneptah Stele dated to about 1211 BCE.
		For over 3,000 years, Jews have regarded the Land of Israel as their homeland, both as a Holy Land and as a Promised land.
		Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of Jewish kingdoms and states existed intermittently in the region for more than a millennium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israel (6320 words)

	China: 5000 Years
		Finely worked pieces, discovered at sites dating as early as 7000 BCE, took the most painstaking labor to create and testify both to the central importance of these jades to early Chinese societies and to the technological sophistication of their craftsmen.
		The exact function of many of the earliest jades is still unknown, although evidence points to their use in rituals relating to burial and the spirit world.
		Archaeological evidence dating to the Eastern Zhou period (770-256 BCE) and Han dynasty indicates that jades, bronzes, silk, lacquerwares, and even gold shared a common vocabulary of motifs and styles, reflecting the interchange between the artists working in these mediums.
	www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/past_exhibitions/china/jade (269 words)

	Zhou Dynasty
		In 770 BCE, the Zhou kings lost control of the territories they had delegated to their lords.
		During the 4th century BCE, the state of Ch'in, one of the former territories of the Zhou kingdom, emerged as a power.
		Based on theories of a leading legalist, the Ch'in kingdom reformed its administration, economy, and military and became stronger as the Zhou empire weakened and eventually died in 256 BCE.
	library.thinkquest.org /12255/library/dynasty/zhou.html (962 words)

	- LEARNERS: BURNING LIBRARIES (BCE) -
		Egypt was raided, invaded, occupied by, and self-liberated from the Nubians and their northern allies, the Hyksos, in 1800-1600 BCE; the People of the Sea, in 1200-1170 BCE; Philistines and Ethiopians in 730 BCE; and Assyrians and Libyans in 671 BCE.
		It was destroyed in 397 BCE by Dionysus the Elder, despot of Syracuse.
		In 48 BCE, the inhabitants of Alexandria blockaded Caesar.
	peaceworld.freeservers.com /130BURNINGLIBRARIES1.htm (9719 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		4000 BCE, these have yet to be interpreted, and the "oracle bone" script, such as that discovered in the pharmacy, is the earliest to be at least half understood.
		The bones, mostly the shoulder blades of oxen, were used by the Shang rulers for scapulimancy: divination by reading the cracks that appeared after the application of heat to the prepared surface of the bone.
		In 221 BCE, the ruler of the state of Qin reunited the country and began to impose the Qin system of weights and measures, coinage and legal procedure, and the Qin style of writing, later known as "lesser seal" script.
	www.fathom.com /feature/121782 (1779 words)

	Thomson-BellGlobemedia, 1st Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shares in BCE (TSX:BCE) gained 18 cents, about 0.6 per cent, to $29.45, while Thomson Corp. stock (TSX:TOC) fell 11 cents to $44.49 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
		The Post's sources said BCE has not responded to the offer, which may have been on the table for months.
		Thomson acquired the Globe and Mail in 1980 and sold it to BCE in 2000 for $770 million.
	www.cp.org /premium/Online/Member/Business/050221/b022129A.html (210 words)

	Symbols of Power in the Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since the Bronze Age, rulers were believed to have access to the spirit world, and, therefore, to be deserving of supreme political power.
		Because of the spiritual and political power associated with bronzes, the ruling clans of the Shang and Western Zhou maintained tight control over the number of bronzes produced, their iconography and style.
		During the Warring States period (475-221 BCE) of the Eastern Zhou, fiefdoms ostensibly owing allegiance to the Zhou State, competed with each other for dominance.
	www.foxthompson.net /ldt/templesymbols (830 words)

	"Transcendental...." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		1700 BCE-1550 BCE -- Reign of Hyksos [Hebrews?] in Egypt.
		770 BCE -- Prophet Hosea in northern Israel.
		760 BCE -- Scholarly prophet Isaiah in Judah.
	www.stoertz.org /discourses/prehistoric.html (5730 words)

	Rissho Ankoku Ron - a commentary, part 21
		1100-256 BCE) in China, the second involves the fall of the Western Chin dynasty (265-316), the third involves the death of Emperor Wu-tsung (r.
		770-720 BCE) of the Chou dynasty, while moving his court east to Loyang, observed that those living by the Yi River were no longer following the ancient customs of the Chou and were reverting to their own local rustic customs.
		He lived during the Warring States period (475-221 BCE) of Chinese history when the Chou dynasty was nothing more than a name and the princes of all the various states vied with each other over who would get to become the founder of a new dynasty.
	nichirenscoffeehouse.net /Ryuei/RAR21.html (2569 words)

	Chi-Ski Club Chinese Art Exhibit
		Included in the collection is the only life-size human bronze figure known from Bronze Age China (about 2000-771 bce), which stands eight-feet tall and has oversized hands in a cylindrical grip, possibly for holding an ivory tusk.
		On display from the same era is a bronze human head with a gold leaf mask found at Sanxingdui, Guanghan; it was one of fifty-four such heads whose purpose remains unknown.
		Another highlight is an intricately painted lacquer deer with a rotating head which dates to the Eastern Zhou period (770-221 bce), and was recovered from the tomb of Zenghou Yi, a minor lord whose tomb includes 10 metric tons of objects made from bronze.
	www.idiom.com /~kongman/web/archive/ChiSki/newsletters/082000/ChineseArt.html (652 words)

	Qin Dynasty \| Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
		Although lasting for only fifteen years, the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE) brought centralized administration to China and introduced a model of government that Chinese emperors followed until the abdication of the emperor of China's final dynasty, the Qing, in 1912.
		By 221 BCE, with a final military victory over the Zhou, the Qin had unified all the states of the feudal Zhou rule.
		Fearing the power of intellectual debate, in 213 BCE Zheng ordered that all texts, except for those on the subjects of divination, medicine, forestry, and agriculture, be burned, aside from a single copy of each, which was held in the imperial library (itself burned to the ground by the invading Han forces in 206 BCE).
	www.bookrags.com /research/qin-dynasty-ema-05 (1210 words)

	The D'Agostino Chronology
		5:9 Enosh 90 at the birth of Kenan 90 3849 BCE Gen.
		5:15 Mahalalel 65 at the birth of Jared 65 3714 BCE Gen 5:18 Jared 162 at the birth of Enoch 162 3552 BCE Gen.
		5:21 Enoch 65 at the birth of Methuselah 65 3487 BCE Gen.
	members.tripod.com /~toncxjo/chronos.html (1574 words)

	TAOWays: Taoism - Herbs, Taoist Herbs, Herbal Combinations, Health, Healing, Understanding Taoist Herbs, Understanding ...
		Around 3,494 BCE, Shen Nung, the first known ruler and founder of the Nung Dynasty, and his administration researched thousands of herbs and develop hundreds of formulas (some western scholars place him around 2,800 BCE but this is in conflict with traditional Chinese history).
		This was followed by the Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BCE) which, in its early period, saw great advancements in philosophy.
		Confucianism is a philosophy of subservience, obedience, and strict hierarchy, and is focused on the society.
	www.taoways.com /herbs1_/introtoherbs.htm (1890 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features - china unearthed
		There could be no more dramatic beginning to "China: 5,000 Years" than the group of terra-cotta soldiers from the 221 BCE army of China's first emperor, Quin Shi Huangdi.
		The show also features a chariot horse with a circular opening on its sides, indicating the craftsmen knew this technique would protect the object from exploding during firing in the kiln.
		Among the most stunning jades on display is a concave, ceremonial blade (zhang) from the Shang period (l600-1100 BCE), whose design evolved over hundreds of years.
	www.artnet.com /magazine_pre2000/features/stern/stern2-11-98.asp (1255 words)

	Radiocarbon Dates from Iron Age Strata at Tel Beth Shean and Tel Rehov
		The 14C date of sample RT 2734 (1260 -1120 BCE) indicates that this was a beam from an old olive tree or taken from the inner part of the tree trunk, where cells could die long before the tree was cut down.
		The first (RT2995) is dated to the 14th-13th centuries BCE and thus points to the use of old olive wood in the construction, as in the case of Stratum S I at Beth-Shean (above).
		The weighted average of the nine samples measured at Arizona was calculated by Professor Donahue to 2750 ± 16 BP and the calibrated age is 905-835 BCE for 1σ and 925-830 BCE for 2σ ranges (8).
	www.rehov.org /Rehov/publications/p04.html (4717 words)

	Amazing Science
		Around 800 BCE Sage Bharadwaj, was both the father of modern medicine, teaching Ayurveda, and also the developer of aviation technology.
		Sage Kanad (circa 600 BCE) is recognized as the founder of atomic theory, and classified all the objects of creation into nine elements (earth, water, light or fire, wind, ether, time, space, mind and soul).
		However, the concept of Zero is referred to as Shunya in the early Sanskrit texts of the 4th century BCE and clearly explained in Pingala’s Sutra of the 2nd century.
	www.hinduism.co.za /amazing.htm (14227 words)

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