Chapter 38 Appendix Chronology of characters in this volume

586 BC - 538 BC, Jewish prophet, Torah. 580 BC - 500 BC, Pythagoras. About 565 BC - about 485 BC, Sakyamuni. 551 BC - 479 BC, Confucius.In the late Spring and Autumn Period, Sun Wu, the author of "Sun Tzu's Art of War". 469 BC - 399 BC, Socrates. About 468 BC - about 379 BC, Mozi.Contemporaneous with Mozi, Yang Zhu. 427 BC - 347 BC, Plato.In the early Warring States period, "Laozi" was written. From about 390 BC to 338 BC, Shang Yang.384 BC - 322 BC, Aristotle. About 372 BC - 289 BC, Mencius. From about 369 BC to 286 BC, Zhuangzi.341 BC - 270 BC, Epicurus. About 340 BC - about 278 BC, Qu Yuan.

From about 313 BC to 238 BC, Xunzi. About 280 BC - 233 BC, Han Fei.