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	Tang Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The dynasty was interrupted by the Second Zhou Dynasty (October 16, 690 – March 3, 705) when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne.
		The Tang Dynasty, with its capital at Chang'an (modern day suburb of Xi'an), the most populous city in the world at the time, is regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization — equal, or even superior, to the Han period.
		The dynasty was ended when one of the military governors, Zhu Wen, deposed the last emperor and took the throne for himself, thereby beginning the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tang_Dynasty (729 words)

	Zhou Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Chinese historical tradition, the rulers of the Zhou displaced the Yin and legitimized their rule by invoking the Mandate of Heaven, the notion that the ruler (the "son of heaven") governed by divine right but that his dethronement would prove that he had lost the mandate.
		The Zhou dynasty was founded by the Ji family and had its capital at Hao (near the present-day city of Xi'an).
		In Chinese Marxist histories, the Zhou dynasty marks the beginning of the feudal phase of Chinese history, a period which is said to extend to the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhou_Dynasty (936 words)

	Encyclopedia: Second Zhou Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Her father was Wu Shihuo (武士彠) (577-635), a member of a renowned aristocratic family of Shanxi, and an ally of Li Yuan, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, in his conquest of power (Li Yuan was himself from a renowned aristocratic family of Shanxi).
		She died nine months later, perhaps consoled by the fact that her nephew Wu Sansi (武三思), son of her half-brother, and as ambitious and intriguing as her, had managed to become the real master behind the scenes, controlling the restored emperor through his empress consort with whom he was having an affair.
		Although it was short-lived, some historians consider the establishment of this Zhou dynasty the result of better equality between the sexes during the succeeding Tang Dynasty.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Second-Zhou-Dynasty (1536 words)

	Zhou Dynasty Information - TextSheet.com
		In the Chinese historical tradition, the rulers of the Zhou displaced the Shang and legitimized their rule by invoking the mandate of heaven.
		The Zhou dynasty was founded by the Ji family and had its capital at Hao, near the city of Xi'an, or Chang'an, as it was known in its heyday in the imperial period.
		Towards the end of Zhou Dynasty, the nobles did not bother to obey the Ji family, even symbolically and declared themselves to be kings.
	www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/z/zh/zhou_dynasty.html (680 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tang dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Emperor Taizong of Tang China (January 23, 599â€“July 10, 649), born Li Shimin (æŽä¸–æ°‘), was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China from 626 to 649.
		Emperor Tang Xuanzong (唐玄宗) (685 - 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China reigining from 712 to 756.
		Emperor Taizong of Tang China (January 23, 599–July 10, 649), born Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China from 626 to 649.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tang-dynasty (6486 words)

	Tang Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dynasty was interrupted by the Second Zhou Dynasty (690-705) when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne.
		The Tang Dynasty, with its capital at Chang'an (modern day suburb of Xi'an), the most populous city in the world at the time, is regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization — equal, or even superior, to the Han period.
		The dynasty was ended when one of the military governors,, deposed the last emperor and took the throne for himself, thereby beginning the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tang_Empire (758 words)

	Han Dynasty
		During the Han Dynasty, China officially became a Confucian state and prospered domestically: agriculture, handicrafts and commerce flourished, and the population reached 50 million.
		The Han dynasty, after which the members of the ethnic majority in China, the "people of Han," are named, was notable also for its military prowess.
		Prestige of a newly founded dynasty during the reigns of first three emperors were barely able to hinder the corruption; however Confucian scholar gentry turned on eunuchs for their corrupted authorities when consort clans and eunuchs struggled for power in subsequent reigns.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Han_dynasty (1909 words)

	Dynasty Warriors 5 Zhou Tai FAQ (PS2) - IGN FAQs
		Zhou Tai follows up his third square button attack by sheathing his sword in his left hand and immediately drawing it back out to the right making a large ranged attack like sweep horizontally, Anime viewers who have seen the cult show Rurouni Kenshin in their spare time will know this attack very commonplace.
		Zhou Tai immediately starts off into a string of repetitive diagnol slashes whilst moving his hips to the swings of the sword, this is a brilliant crowd controller and a sure fire way of killing tougher opponents like officers and enemy commanders.
		Zhou Tai charges for a split second and sweeps the area mostly the left and then to the right with a fairly moderate ranged attack (how he doesnt slice the horse's head clean off is beyond me lol).
	faqs.ign.com /articles/640/640254p1.html (1578 words)

	t'ang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tang Dynasty (唐朝 618-907) followed Sui Dynasty and preceded the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms Period in China.
		The dynasty was interrupted by the Second Zhou Dynasty (690 AD - 705 AD) when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne.
		The Tang dynasty, with its capital at Chang'an, the most populous city in the world at the time, is regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization-- equal, or even superior, to the Han period.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /T'ang.html (537 words)

	CHRONOLOGY - ZHOU DYNASTY
		In the 11th century B.C. King Wu of the Zhou took advantage of the favourable opportunity presented by the absence of the Shang kings main military force, which was in the southeast attacking the Yi people.
		In 771 B.C. the Zhou court was sacked, and its king was killed by invaders allied with rebel lords.
		When the most practical and useful aspects of Confucianism and Legalism were synthesized in the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), a system of governance came into existence that was to survive largely intact until the late nineteenth century.
	www.gotheborg.com /chronology/zhou.shtml (2013 words)

	Sui Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 577, the Northern Zhou conquered the Northern Qi and reunified the North China.
		The Northern Zhou, known as the reign of Yuwen family of the Xianbei minority, continued for 24 years with five emperors over three generations.
		The Sui Dynasty's early demise was attributed to the government's tyranny and ceaseless wars.
	www.warriortours.com /intro/history/sui (1059 words)

	Zhou
		The Zhou began as a semi-nomadic tribe that lived to the west of the Shang kingdom.
		The first is the Western Zhou, which occurs from the time of their victory over the Shang until about 771 B.C. when they were forced east by barbarians from the north.
		The second half, the Warring States Period, is so named because of the power struggle between the large states of China that were trying to gain control over the entire area.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/china/ancient_china/zhou.html (714 words)

	Qin Dynasty biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Qin Dynasty, or Ch'in Dynasty (Wade-Giles) (秦朝 221 BC - 207 BC) preceded by the Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China.
		Thus the Qin dynasty come to an end, three years after the death of Qin Shi Huang, and less than twenty years after it was founded.
		Although the Qin Dynasty was short-lived, its legalist rule had a deep impact on later dynasties in China.
	qin-dynasty.biography.ms (853 words)

	Zhou Dynasty
		The Zhou fulfilled the mandate of Heaven by defeating the Shang in warfare.
		The ancient Zhou capital was divided into two sections, one for the Zhou people an the imperial court and the other half for the Shang people.
		The Zhou royal court and son of Emperor Yu Wang escape and move the capital eastward to Loyand in 771 B.C. Many of the ancient Jade artifacts uncovered and on the market today is the result of this historic event.
	www.thejadetrade.com /ian/p8.html (1043 words)

	History china dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dynasty was interrupted by the Second Zhou Dynasty (690 AD - 705...
		Dynastys ruled China for most of the last 4,000 years learn about China's dynastys in the Electronic Passport at www.mrdowling.com.
		Shang Dynasty China for Kids - the Bronze Age, and the development of writing on oracle bones, and using horses to pull chariots.
	historyuniverse.info /history-china-dynasty-r.html (176 words)

	Ancient China: The Chou, 1050-256 BC
		According to Chinese history, the Shang dynasty had degenerated morally; the last of the Shang kings, Chou, was totally corrupt.
		We also know that the Shang dynasty was severely weakened in its constant warfare with peoples to the north who encroached on Shang territory.
		As under the Shang, government was largely in the hands of city-states; since the territory greatly expanded after the Chou invasion, the number of city-states under the king probably numbered around two hundred to two hundred and fifty.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCCHINA/CHOU.HTM (1525 words)

	Chinese History - Zhou Dynasty event history (www.chinaknowledge.org)
		The Western Zhou (Xizhou è¥¿å‘¨) period is a highlight of moral government and enlightened rule in the thinking of the Confucianists.
		Although the Confucianists see the Western Zhou period as a time of glory, humanity and perfect government, it was a hard time for the Zhou rulers to survive the attacks of the southern and western tribes.
		The Zhou kings had to rely on the help of their neighbour states not even to protect themselves from raids by other powers but also to solve intern power struggles.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Zhou/zhou-event.html (2003 words)

	Western Zhou Dynasty Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A chieftain of a frontier tribe called Zhou, which had settled in the Wei Valley in modern Sha'anxi Province, overthrew the last Shang ruler, a despot according to standard Chinese accounts.
		It was philosophers of this period who first enunciated the doctrine of the "mandate of heaven," the notion that the ruler (the "son of heaven") governed by divine right but his dethronement would mean that he had lost his mandate.
		In 771 BC, the Zhou court was sacked, and its king killed by invading barbarians who were allied with rebel lords.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Dynasty/dynasty-West-Zhou.html (230 words)

	Ethics of Shang, Zhou and the Classics by Sanderson Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first two centuries of the Zhou dynasty were fairly peaceful within their realms, though wars were often fought with nomads on the perimeters to expand the kingdom.
		The Zhou patriarch Wen Wang opposed the use of alcohol except in the ceremonies, as the fall of the Shang dynasty was attributed to excessive drinking.
		In the second book the king (probably Yu's son) threatened his soldiers on the verge of a battle that if they did not obey his orders, not only would they be killed but their children as well.
	www.san.beck.org /EC13-Chou.html (14215 words)

	Eastern Zhou Period
		In its early days, the Western Zhou Dynasty (The 11th century BC to 711 BC) was sufficiently powerful to be able to control the vassal states.
		So, from the beginning of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the unification by Qin, China was marked by disunity and continuous conflicts.
		In 256 BC, Qin dispatched army and defeated the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
	www.warriortours.com /intro/history/zhou/eastern.htm (1758 words)

	Tang Dynasty -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dynasty was interrupted by the (Click link for more info and facts about Second Zhou Dynasty) Second Zhou Dynasty (690-705) when (Click link for more info and facts about Empress Wu Zetian) Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne.
		Near the end of the Tang Dynasty, regional military governors ((Click link for more info and facts about jiedushi) jiedushi) became increasingly powerful, and began to function more like independent regimes on their own right.
		The dynasty was ended when one of the military governors, Zhu Wen, deposed the last emperor and took the throne for himself, thereby beginning the (Click link for more info and facts about Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period) Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Ta/Tang_Dynasty.htm (2885 words)

	Second dynasty. (from Anjou) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The second was formerly defined as of the mean solar day—i.e., the average period of rotation of the Earth on its axis relative to the Sun.
		The best-known members of the dynasty were Peter I the Great, Catherine II the Great, Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nicholas II.
		Includes a map and pictures that focus on the Shang and the Zhou, descriptions of the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods, and discussion of the School of Literati, Confucius, Mencius, and Legalism.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-319?tocId=319 (801 words)

	Chinese History - Zhou Dynasty literature, thought, and philosophy (www.chinaknowledge.org)
		The Zhou culture is apparently a mixture of different cultures of peoples that lived in the Wei River walley.
		The most important texts to the Zhou tradition became also the core texts of the later Confucian classics: The "Books of Documents" (Shangshu å°æ¸ or Shujing æ¸ç¶“, literally "Texts of the Old") is a collection of speeches and discussions from the mythical Xia and the Shang Dynasty to the end of Western Zhou period.
		The second school is that of the Divine Farmer (nongjia è¾²å®¶), proposing the equality of everyone, thus forcing even a king to engage in farming.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Zhou/zhou-literature.html (997 words)

	Han Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During this reign, the Han Dynasty reached the zenith of its power, and the empire was greatly enlarged.
		The usurpation of Wang Mang [Frederick-Gorman]: The cause of the downfall of the Han Dynasty is to be traced to the ambition of its imperial women.
		During the former dynasty, the two parties always worked hand in hand; during the latter dynasty, they were constantly engaged in bringing ruin to one another.
	worldclass.net /China/han.htm (3479 words)

	Chinese history:Zhou Dynasty (1046-256BC)
		The last Shang ruler, a despot according to standard Chinese accounts, was overthrown by a chieftain of a frontier tribe called Zhou,which had settled in the Wei Valley in modern Shaanxi Province.
		The Zhou dynasty had its capital at Hao, near the city of Xi'an,or Chang'an, as it was known in its heyday in the imperial period.
		The Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other, from 1027 to 221 B.C. It was philosophers of this period who first enunciated the doctrine of the "mandate of heaven" (tianming), the notion that the ruler (the "son of heaven") governed by divine right but that his dethronement would prove that he had lost the mandate.
	www.chinavoc.com /history/zhou.htm (418 words)

	Dunhuang Art in the Second Half of the Tang Dynasty
		The Second year of the Jianzhong Era (781) was a watershed of Chinese history and saw the beginning of Tibetan control over the Hexi region.
		During the second half of the Tang Dynasty there emerged a large number of eminent monks from Dunhuang, such as Tankuang (a monk from Chang'an who settled in Dunhuang), Moheyan (a preacher of Chan Buddhism), and Facheng, Hongbian and Wuzhen (all three of whom were honoured as eminent Tibetan monks).
		Often the donor is placed on the eastern wall facing the main deity of the central altar, saluting Buddha from distance to show the outstanding status of the donor.
	www.ignca.nic.in /ks_19020.htm (4794 words)

	Dynasties of China: Qin Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		History of Qin dynasty - the fourth recorded dynasty of the dynasties of China.
		Although Qin is a short dynasty with a span of only fifteen years, it started off a 2,000-year-long imperial history in China and exerted a far-reaching influence on the subsequent dynasties.
		In the second year after his enthronement, he started the construction of his mausoleum, which took almost 700,000 conscripts over 30 years to complete.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/qin (695 words)

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