Warring States Period (8 mai 600 av. J.-C. – 8 mai 300 av. J.-C.)

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Spring and Autumn Period (722-481)
-war among states fueled by new iron weaponry
-irrigation and public works

Warring States Period (403-221)
-Qin as leader after fall of Zhou
-royal replace hereditary appointments

Qin and Warring States
-Hundred Schools of Thought (philosophy)
-Confucius (filial submission, ruler protects) and Analects
-Daoism by Laozi (wuwei, natural course of rule)
-close relationship between scholarship and rulers
-administrations implement conscription, public works for natural resources, taxes, bureaucracy
-year-long warfare b/c conscription, iron, crossbows
-economic growth, agricultural efficiency, social fluidity

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