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  2. Nine Provinces - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The term Nine Provinces or Nine Regions[1] (Chinese: 九州; pinyin: Jiǔ Zhōu), is used in ancient Chinese histories to refer to territorial divisions or islands during the Xia and Shang dynasties and has now come to symbolically represent China. "Province" is the word used to translate zhou (州) – since before the Tang dynasty (618 ...

  3. Outline of ancient China - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Chinese history, by period. History of ancient China. Neolithic China (c. 8500 – c. 2070 BC) – predates ancient China. Bronze Age China. Xia dynasty (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC) Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC) Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 256 BC|BCE) Western Zhou (1046–771 BC) Iron Age China.

  4. History of China - Wikipedia

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    The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese ...

  5. Ancient Chinese states - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Chinese states (traditional Chinese: 諸侯國; simplified Chinese: 诸侯国; pinyin: Zhūhóu guó) were dynastic polities of China within and without the Zhou cultural sphere prior to Qin's wars of unification. They ranged in size from large estates, to city-states to much vaster territories with multiple population centers.

  6. Protectorate of the Western Regions - Wikipedia

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    The Protectorate of the Western Regions (simplified Chinese: 西域都护府; traditional Chinese: 西域都護府; pinyin: Xīyù Dūhù Fǔ; Wade–Giles: Hsi 1-yü 4 Tu 1-hu 4 Fu 3) was an imperial administration (a protectorate) situated in the Western Regions administered by Han dynasty China and its successors on and off from 59 or 60 BCE until the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms period in ...

  7. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period - Wikipedia

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    The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (Chinese: 五代十國) was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979. Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen concurrent dynastic states, collectively known as the Ten Kingdoms, were established elsewhere, mainly in South China.

  8. Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. According to Chinese mythology and traditional Chinese historiography, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (Chinese : 三皇五帝; pinyin : Sān huáng wǔ dì) were a series of sage rulers, and the first Emperors of China. [ 1 ] Today, they are considered culture heroes, [ 2 ] but they were widely worshipped as divine "ancestral ...

  9. Wufang Shangdi - Wikipedia

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    e. The Wǔfāng Shàngdì (五方上帝 "Five Regions' Highest Deities" or "Highest Deities of the Five Regions" [note 1]), or simply Wǔdì (五帝 "Five Deities") or Wǔshén (五神 "Five Gods") [3] are, in Chinese canonical texts and common Chinese religion, the fivefold manifestation of the supreme God of Heaven (天 Tiān, or equivalently ...