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Hello and welcome to the History of China.

Episode 8, Evan does not make propositions. Last time, we chronicled the final days of the corrupted Shong dynasty

and the successful uprising of the Duke of Joe, styling himself King Wu,

leading to Joe Sheen's self-immolation as the rebel forces surrounded his capital,

Yin. This week we'll begin our look into the nominally longest dynasty

in Chinese history, the Joe. I say nominally because though there is roughly an 800 year period that had at least in name a Joe King

We can and in fact must split that into subsections

First the Western and Eastern Joe periods, and then the

Eastern Joe must be further subdivided into what will be known as the

spring and autumn period and the warring states period respectively.

Trust me when I say that this is a super interesting time in Chinese history for a lot of reasons.

But we'll cross those bridges when we get there. For now, we're focused on the

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