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RULING FAMILIES. CAME TO POWER AND TRADING. Chinese ruling families and their peasant armies were always fighting. Historians call the years 475 -221 BCE the warring states period.
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RULING FAMILIES CAME TO POWER AND TRADING • Chinese ruling families and their peasant armies were always fighting. • Historians call the years 475 -221 BCE the warring states period. • After the Qin’s empire fell the Han dynasty came to power. Europeans prized Chinese silk and they traded gold and ivory. Gemstones and glass for silk, jade, pottery, bronze and lacquer ware. HAN DYNASTY BY NIKO MORRIS AND MICHAEL SUBAH Bjorklund, Ruth. Projects about Ancient China. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2006.