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  2. Dynastic cycle - Wikipedia

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    Dynastic cycle (traditional Chinese: 朝代循環; simplified Chinese: 朝代循环; pinyin: Cháodài Xúnhuán) is an important political theory in Chinese history. According to this theory, each dynasty of China rises to a political, cultural, and economic peak and then, because of moral corruption, declines, loses the Mandate of Heaven ...

  3. Mandate of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    The dynastic cycle of the Chinese dynasties and the Mandate of Heaven. ... but one day they found an egg near a well and one was born out of it. It is said that the ...

  4. History of China - Wikipedia

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    The traditional lens for viewing Chinese history is the dynastic cycle: imperial dynasties rise and fall, and are ascribed certain achievements. Throughout pervades the narrative that Chinese civilization can be traced as an unbroken thread many thousands of years into the past , making it one of the cradles of civilization .

  5. Dynasties of China - Wikipedia

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    For most of its history, China was organized into various dynastic states under the rule of hereditary monarchs.Beginning with the establishment of dynastic rule by Yu the Great c. 2070 BC, [1] and ending with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor in AD 1912, Chinese historiography came to organize itself around the succession of monarchical dynasties.

  6. Timeline of Chinese history - Wikipedia

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    Wang Chong correctly theorized the nature of the water cycle. 87: Yuan An was appointed situ. 88: Zhang died. He was succeeded by his son Emperor He of Han. 89: June: Battle of the Altai Mountains: Han and allied forces defeated the army of the Northern Chanyu and accepted the surrender of two hundred thousand Xiongnu soldiers in the Altai ...

  7. List of dynasties - Wikipedia

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    a single dynastic realm spanned/spans across more than one geographic region. For example, apart from previously ruling over the possessions of the British Empire and numerous sovereign states that later abolished the monarchy , the House of Windsor remains the ruling dynasty of 15 sovereign states and their associated territories, and is ...

  8. Chinese historiography - Wikipedia

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    Zooming out from the dynastic cycle but maintaining focus on power dynamics, the following general periodization, based on the most powerful groups and the ways that power is used, has been proposed for Chinese history: [37]: 45 The aristocratic settlement state (to c. 550 BCE)

  9. Monarchy of China - Wikipedia

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    China was a monarchy from prehistoric times up to 1912, when a republic was established. The succession of legendary monarchs of China were non-hereditary. Dynastic rule began c. 2070 BC when Yu the Great established the Xia dynasty, [d] and monarchy lasted until 1912 when dynastic rule collapsed together with the monarchical government. [5]