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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... thousands of families to colonize the Shandong peninsula on the East China coast. c. 219 B.C.: Li Si rises to become ... thousand families into the Ordos Desert to colonize the region. July–August 210 B.C.: Emperor Zheng dies at age ...
... thousand rebels rise against Han rule in the new commanderies of the southwest. A second uprising ends in 82 b.c. with Han forces putting more than fifty thousand rebels to death. 82 B.C.: Adopting a policy of retrenchment, China begins ...
... thousand insurgents. March 6, 145–July 26, 146: Zhidi reigns briefly as emperor and dies under murky circumstances. One account claims that he is murdered for calling one of his leading officials a bully. August 1, 146: Huandi is ...
... thousand peasants rise up when omens and visions persuade them that the Han dynasty should be brought to an end. There is a specifically Daoist content to the rebels' ideology; rebellions such as this one are among religious Daoism's ...
... thousand Chinese court functionaries are massacred. Within a decade, the revolt will lead to the division of the Wei state. 534–535: Rebellion and internal division break the Northern Wei dynasty into two parts. The more economically ...