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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... defeat of the last of the other Warring States , Qin forcibly unifies China . Zheng takes the title of Qin Shi Huangdi - August Lord of Qin . 221-210 B.C .: The First Emperor , Zheng , di- vides the empire into thirty - six command ...
... defeat Wang Mang's army in Shandong . 22 : The Red Eyebrows advance south toward the rich region of Nanyang in present Hunan . Rebellious forces there rise up to join the Red Eyebrows in the war against . Wang Mang . October - November ...
... defeats his rival Yuan Shao . Over the next eight years , he establishes con- trol over most of northeast China . 208 : Cao Cao advances southward . His forces encounter the allied armies of Sun Quan and Liu Bei and are defeated at Red ...
... defeat a Western Wei 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 ...
... defeat a Chen fleet on the Yangtze . Land forces advance on the capital , Jian- kang , seize it , and capture the ... defeated and driven off by an Eastern Turk force under Chinese command . 606 : Sui financial reforms and an improved ...