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| | The Warring States |
 | | Yue, however, already foreshadowed the coming age, that of the Warring States, when all wars were to be wars of annihilation. |
 | | But the last of the group, Yue, was to disappear altogether in the course of a few decades, and those remaining are known in history as the Seven Warring States, or, in modern jargon, the Seven Great Powers, who were to indulge in wars of annihilation for a century and a half. |
 | | All states became centralized; the hereditary nobility and its prerogative of exclusive political control by the side of the prince were completely overthrown, and the prince from now on was to be an absolute despot. |
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