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HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

NAME OF DYNASTY BEGAN REMARKS

A. D.

.»,«• 25 Capital at Lo-yang.

y^^ Eastern Han (3) '^-'

'/^ After Han ) Epoch ot the Three Kingdoms,
Wuj fj^., Han, Wei, and
(4).

5mS Chin ] 265

(5)

^^ Eastern Chin J 323

fij ;7J^ Sung, Liu House (6) 420 Epoch of Division between North
479
^ Ch'i(7) 502 and South, Nan Pei Ch'ao
557
|g' Liang (8) (14, 15), the (lo) Wei (Toba),

f$ Ch'en (9) I 386-549, ruling the north fol-
;

lowed by (11) the Northern

Ch'i 550-577; and (12) the

Northern Chou, 557-581.

Pi Sui(i3) 581
618
T'ang (16, 17)
907
A.
923 These short-lived lines are known
^' Posterior Liang 936
947 } collectively as the Five Dyn-
A- Wuasties, or
Tai (18, 19).
Tang

Chin

4i Han

JS Chou 951 1 North China ruled by the Kitan
I Tartars, as Liao dynasty (21),
^:It Northern Sung 960 '> 916-1 1 19 ; by the Juchen Tar-
^ I tars, as Chin or Golden dynasty
^^^^
J (22), 1 1 15-1234.
f^ .^ Southern Sung ) 1 127
Mongolian dynasty.
TC '^'u^" (23) 1280

H^ Ming (24) 1368

Ch'ing 1644 Reigning Manchu dynasty.

The Ch'in emperor, who aimed at universal dominion,
may have heard rumors of the conquests of Alexan-

der the Great in Central Asia. But it was not till the

next dynasty, the Han, that regular communication
was opened up with western countries by sending Chang
Ch'ien on a mission to the Yeuh-ti, or Indo-Seyths,

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