State of Yue
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Was one of many small polities that emerged during the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period.
Establishment
January 770 BC: The polity is assumed to existed since the start of the Spring and Autumn period in 770 BC.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 721 BC: Gumie was a small state during the Zhou dynasty and Spring and Autumn period (722-479 BC) .
January 479 BC: Gumie conquered by King Goujian of Yue.
January 472 BC: Wu defeated by Yue.
January 413 BC: Change based on available maps for the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period.
January 333 BC: Both Minyue and Dong'ou were founded by the royal Zou family who fled Yue after being defeated by Chu and Qi in 334 BC.
Disestablishment
January 305 BC: During the reign of Wuqiang (無彊), six generations after Goujian, Yue was partitioned by Chu and Qi in 306 BC.
Selected Sources
Cho-yun, H. (1999): The Spring and Autumn period In Cambridge History of Ancient China, Cambridge University Press, pp. 545-586
Five hegemons of Spring and Autumn period. Retrieved on March, 20th 2021 on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Five_Hegemons.png
Gernet, J. (1996): A History of Chinese Civilisation, Cambridge (UK), p. 59
States of Zhou Dynasty, Wikipedia, 10 july 2017, https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:States_of_Zhou_Dynasty.png
States of Zhou Dynasty. Retrieved on March, 20th 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:States_of_Zhou_Dynasty.png
