NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 206 BCE

Second Punic War:
- Mago evacuates the remaining Carthaginian troops in Spain, and sails for the Balearic Islands.
- Scipio Africanus Major returns to Rome, while his soldiers found the Spanish town Italica.
Ziying, last ruler of the Qin Dynasty of China surrenders himself to Liu Bang, leader of a popular revolt. This marks the end of the Qin Dynasty. The Han dynasty is established.
Gojoseon fell in Korean peninsula.
Kingdom Nanyue established itself in Fanyu (Guangzhou, or Canton)

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Confucianism (1586 words)
	By the time of Wu Ti (140-87 BCE) of the Former Han dynasty (206 BCE-24 CE), however, Confucianism had recovered from this blow and the destruction that civil war inflicted on its classics and learning.
	Confucianism intertwined with the doctrines of the yin-yang and the Five Elements and even with the popularly apocryphal writings, in which Confucianism was interpreted in religious, mystical and prophetic terms, and Confucius himself was taken as the 'uncrowned king'.
	BCE), while the latter was represented by Yang Hsiung (53 BCE-18 CE).

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