Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and CultureJohn S. Bowman Columbia University Press, 2000 M09 5 - 512 pages Containing more information on Asian culture than any other English-language reference work, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture is the first of its kind: a set of more than thirty chronologies for all the countries of Asia—East, South, Southeast, and Central—from the Paleolithic era through 1998. Each entry is clearly dated and, unlike most chronologies found in standard history texts, the entries are complete and detailed enough to provide virtually a sequential history of the vast and rich span of Asian cultures. The contributing writers and editors have ensured the book's usefulness to general readers by identifying individuals and groups, locating places and regions, explaining events and movements, and defining unfamiliar words and concepts. |
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... army ( two years ) or in a labor gang ( one year ) . 154 B.C .: The king of Wu ( eastern China ) reb- els ; six other kings ally with him . After sev- eral months of fighting , imperial forces sub- due the rebel army and crush the ...
... army to confront the invaders ; the show of force prevents a full - scale outbreak . 11 : Heavy flooding causes great loss of life . Resulting famine destabilizes the Wang Mang regime and leads to widespread peas- ant unrest . 12 ...
... army reaches Gong- sun Shu's capital , Chengdu . Gongsun is mortally wounded in the fighting and the city surrenders the next day . April 1 , 37 : Emperor Guangwu abolishes all but three of the twenty or so subordinate kingdoms . He ...
... army enters the capital and loots it . September 28 , 189 : Dong Zhuo deposes Shaodi and installs his half - brother , Xiandi , on the throne . Han will soon split into as many as eight warring factions and the new emperor's reign will ...
... army , inflicting losses of more than sixty thousand men . 546-550 : To rebuild its military , once largely composed of troops drawn from the border peoples , Western Wei rulers attempt to re- Icruit Chinese soldiers . How may one ...