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 Translation for 'Zhou Dynasty' from English to Dutch
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Zhou-dynastie {de}
Zhou Dynasty
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dynastie {de}dynasty
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Han-dynastie {de}
Han Dynasty
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Qin-dynastie {de}
Qin Dynasty
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Xia-dynastie {de}
Xia Dynasty
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Yuan-dynastie {de}
Yuan Dynasty
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Ming-dynastie {de}
Ming Dynasty
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Jin-dynastie {de}
Jin Dynasty
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Liao-dynastie {de}
Liao Dynasty
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Tang-dynastie {de}
Tang Dynasty
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Qing-dynastie {de}
Qing Dynasty
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Song-dynastie {de}
Song Dynasty
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Sui-dynastie {de}
Sui Dynasty
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Shang-dynastie {de}
Shang Dynasty
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Usage Examples English
  • It dates from 433 BC, of the later Zhou Dynasty. It is fashioned of lacquered bamboo with closed ends and has five stops that are at the flute's side instead of the top.
  • The traditional Chinese calendar was developed between 771 and 476 BCE, during the Spring and Autumn period of the Eastern Zhou dynasty. Solar calendars were used before the Zhou dynasty period.
  • The Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) supplanted the Shang, and introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule.
  • There is evidence that archery ("shèjiàn") was practiced during the Western Zhou dynasty.
  • The dynasty was formally interrupted during 690–705 when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne, proclaiming the Wu Zhou dynasty and becoming the only legitimate Chinese empress regnant.

  • Iron has been found from the Zhou dynasty, but its use was minimal.
  • The Zhou Dynasty continues in China and the Late Period begins in Egypt with the 26th dynasty starting with the coronation of Psamtik I.
  • Ancient and medieval nobility would fight private wars amongst while still acknowledging the same king or emperor, such as was case in the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China, when the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were nominal rulers.
  • The earliest written forms of "dao" are bronzeware script and seal script characters from Zhou Dynasty (1045–256 BCE) bronzes and writings.
  • In 703, he was sent by qaγan for marriage proposal to the Wu Zhou dynasty.

  • Chamberlain (2016) proposes that the Tai-Kadai (Kra-Dai) language family was formed as early as the 12th century BCE in the middle of the Yangtze basin, coinciding roughly with the establishment of the Chu fiefdom and the beginning of the Zhou dynasty.
  • Chinese iron swords made their first appearance in the later part of the Western Zhou dynasty, but iron and steel swords were not widely used until the 3rd century BC Han dynasty.
  • Misuse of the smoke signal is known to have contributed to the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty in the 8th century BCE.
  • It was not known at the time that earthquakes were caused by the shifting of tectonic plates in the Earth's crust; instead, the people of the ancient Zhou Dynasty explained them as disturbances with cosmic yin and yang, along with the heavens' displeasure with acts committed (or the common peoples' grievances ignored) by the current ruling dynasty.
  • During the Zhou Dynasty ([...] 1046–256 BC) in the "Book of Songs", the sight of a Red Moon engulfed in darkness was believed to foreshadow famine or disease.

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