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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... capital near present Zhengzhou and a second , later , near Anyang north of the Yellow River . Though its domain encompasses a relatively small area ( parts of today's Henan , Anhui , Shandong , Hebei , and Shanxi provinces ) , Shang ...
... capital at Zhengzhou by flood and moves it to a safer site at Anyang . 1122 B.C. By tradition , the House of Zhou deposes the Shang dynasty . Modern scholars believe the Zhou triumph occurred some- what later , probably between 1050 and ...
... capital , burn palaces , and. 3d century B.C .: Qin emerges as the most powerful of the Warring States of the North China Plain . Qin's advantage is military in- novation , such as deployment of infantry in the hill country where war ...
... capital . 12th month , 206 B.C .: Liu Bang's ally - turned- rival Xiang Yu , the king of Chu , enters the Qin capital and ransacks the palaces there . Liu , now styled king of Han , opens a cam- paign against his former supporter and de ...
... capital from Luoyang to Chang'an near modern Xian . Over the next seven years he will consolidate Han power in the ten smaller kingdoms that emerge from the breakup of the Qin empire , gradually re- placing their rulers with members of ...