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| | China to the Fall of the Han Dynasty |
 | | Shihuangdi had claimed that his dynasty would last 10,000 generations, but the rebellion was too great for his son and the eunuchs around him, and in 206 BCE an army under Liu Bang defeated the Qin army and entered the capital city: Xianyang. |
 | | The legend held that when his grave was opened, in the year 259, his body was found wholly intact, meaning that he had died only in the sense that he had detached from his corpse and had entered paradise. |
 | | Then Wei's ruler was overthrown from within, one of his generals beginning a dynasty of his own, and, thirty-six years later, in 280, his offspring, Jin Wudi, overpowered and annexed the kingdom of Wu. |
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