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| | | The Han dynasty recovers control, after a 15-year interlude, and moves the capital to Loyang - starting the Eastern Han period | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | Theravada Buddhism, strong in south India and Sri Lanka, travels with traders through southeast Asia | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | Buddhism, arriving with trade along the Silk Road from India, puts down firm roots in China | |
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| 105 |
| | | The eunuch Ts'ai Lun either invents paper or presents a report on the new substance to the Chinese emperor | |
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| c. 175 |
| | | The Han emperor in China has the six main Confucian classics engraved in stone, so that scholars may take rubbings - a first step towards printing | |
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| 221 |
| | | The Han dynasty is brought to an end, after more than four centuries, by decades of peasant unrest | |
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| c. 250 |
| | | The Goths split into two major groups, the Visigoths northwest of the Black Sea and the Ostrogoths further east | |
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| c. 300 |
| | | The Chinese transform the toe loop of nomadic horsemen into the metal stirrup | |
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| c. 300 |
| | | Ten dynasties and nineteen kingdoms jockey for power in the three centuries after the fall of the Han dynasty | |
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| c. 350 |
| | | The clan ruling the Yamato plain becomes so powerful that its chieftain is seen as the emperor of Japan | |
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