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It was a time of great social discourse in China.

For hundreds of years, people saw the reigns of power handed from one person with one set

of ideas to another.

Dynasties rose and fell, the Shah Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty.

Not to mention a period before any dynasties where it said that demigod kings with magical

powers ruled over everyone and used their magical powers to help their subjects and the

people they ruled over.

The closest one of these dynasties to Taoism was the show dynasty and it was crumbling.

It was an extremely scary and volatile time to live, but that's not much different than

most ancient history.

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