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  2. Military of the Zhou dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The military of the Zhou dynasty were the forces fighting under the Zhou dynasty (Chinese: 周朝; pinyin: Zhōu cháo), a royal dynasty of China ruling from c. 1046 BC until 256 BC. Under the Zhou, these armies were able to expand China's territory and influence to all of the North China plain.

  3. Zhou dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Zhou dynasty (/dʒoʊ/ JOH) was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from c. 1046 BC until 256 BC, the longest span of any dynasty in Chinese history. During the Western Zhou period ( c. 1046 – 771 BC), the royal house, surnamed Ji , had military control over territories centered on the Wei River valley and North China Plain .

  4. Military of the Warring States - Wikipedia

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    WS bronze jians Zhou dynasty axehead WS bronze axehead WS scythed dagger axe WS scythed chariot axle Bronze horses from the state of Zhao. The Warring States period comprises the latter half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, by which point the Zhou kings had become nearly politically irrelevant. Their vassals began to adopt the title of king and ...

  5. Warring States period - Wikipedia

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    The Warring States period in Chinese history (c. 475 – 221 BC) comprises the final centuries of the Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 256 BC), which were characterized by warfare, bureaucratic and military reform, and political consolidation.

  6. Ancient Chinese states - Wikipedia

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    The Zhou dynasty grew out of a predynastic polity with its own existing power structure, primarily organized as a set of culturally affiliated kinship groups. The defining characteristics of a noble were their ancestral temple surname (姓; xíng), their lineage line within that ancestral surname, and seniority within that lineage line.

  7. Rebellion of the Three Guards - Wikipedia

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    The Rebellion of the Three Guards [1] [c] (simplified Chinese: 三监之乱; traditional Chinese: 三監之亂; pinyin: Sān Jiàn zhī Luàn), or less commonly the Wu Geng Rebellion (simplified Chinese: 武庚之乱; traditional Chinese: 武庚之亂), [22] was a civil war, [18] instigated by an alliance of discontent Zhou princes, Shang loyalists, vassal states and other non-Zhou peoples ...

  8. Six Secret Teachings - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Jiang Ziya in the Sancai Tuhui. The Six Secret Teachings (Chinese: 六韜), is a treatise on civil and military strategy traditionally attributed to Lü Shang (aka Jiang Ziya), a top general of King Wen of Zhou, founder of the Zhou dynasty, at around the eleventh century BC.

  9. Qin (state) - Wikipedia

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    Qin (/ tʃ ɪ n /, or Ch'in [1]) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.It is traditionally dated to 897 BC. [2] The Qin state originated from a reconquest of western lands that had previously been lost to the Xirong.