Home Region:  South China (East Asia)

Yue Kingdom

510 BCE 334 BCE

SC EQ 2020  cn_yue_dyn / CnYueKg

Displayed: 500 BCE








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-500-482-463-445-426-408-389-371-352-334


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General Variables
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
Language
Religion
Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
Hierarchical Complexity
Professions
Bureaucracy Characteristics
Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information / Writing System
Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Information / Money
Information / Postal System
Information / Measurement System
Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications
Military use of Metals
Projectiles
Handheld weapons
Animals used in warfare
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Economy Variables (Luxury Goods) Coding in Progress.
Religion Variables Coding in Progress.
Crisis Consequences Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions Coding in Progress.

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Year Range Yue Kingdom (cn_yue_dyn) was in:
Home NGA: None

General Variables
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
Language
Religion

Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
Polity Territory:
[80,000 to 120,000] km2
[-510, -334]

in squared kilometers
"Yue kingdom ... located in what is today northern Zhejiang and southern Anhui Provinces". [1]
"The territory of Yue was located in the northern part of the modern province of Zhejiang, in the southern parts of the Hangzhou Bay." [2]

[1]: (West 2009, 81) Barbara A. West. 2009. Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania. Facts On File. New York.

[2]: Ulrich Theobald. 2000. ChinaKnowledge.de - An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History, Literature and Art. The Feudal State of Yue 越. http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Zhou/rulers-yue.html


Hierarchical Complexity
Administrative Level:
[3 to 4]
[-510, -334]

levels.
1. King
"the royal family of Yue fled to Fujian after their kingdom was annexed by the state of Chu in 306 BC." [1]
2. Chieftain Some organization at the tribal level: "The dynasty lived on in the person of Yao 搖, who was chieftain of the Min tribes of Yue 閩越 in the late 3rd century BCE." [2]
3. 4.

[1]: (Guo 2013, 45) Rongxing Guo. 2013. Regional China. A Business and Economic Handbook. Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke.

[2]: Ulrich Theobald. 2000. ChinaKnowledge.de - An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History, Literature and Art. The Feudal State of Yue 越. http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Zhou/rulers-yue.html


Professions
Professional Soldier:
Uncoded
[-510, -334]

Generic Baiyue reference: "The earliest exposition of Chinese martial arts theory appears in the historical novel Spring and Autumn of Wu and Yue (ca. 100 CE). A short passage describes the sword fighting skills of the Maiden of Yue, who was said to have been selected by the King of Yue (497-465 BCE) to train his army against the Kingdom of Wu. In the passage the Maiden of Yue describes the interaction of yin and yang, and of internal and external attributes, as being amoung the key principles of all hand-to-hand combat, and these ideas have continued to be central to martial arts practice in general down to the present day." [1]

[1]: (Henning 89, 2013) Stanley E Henning. Chinese Martial Arts. Naomi Standen. ed. 2013. Demystifying China: New understandings of Chinese history. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Lanham.


Professional Military Officer:
Uncoded
[-510, -334]

Generic Baiyue reference: "The earliest exposition of Chinese martial arts theory appears in the historical novel Spring and Autumn of Wu and Yue (ca. 100 CE). A short passage describes the sword fighting skills of the Maiden of Yue, who was said to have been selected by the King of Yue (497-465 BCE) to train his army against the Kingdom of Wu. In the passage the Maiden of Yue describes the interaction of yin and yang, and of internal and external attributes, as being amoung the key principles of all hand-to-hand combat, and these ideas have continued to be central to martial arts practice in general down to the present day." [1]

[1]: (Henning 89, 2013) Stanley E Henning. Chinese Martial Arts. Naomi Standen. ed. 2013. Demystifying China: New understandings of Chinese history. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Lanham.


Bureaucracy Characteristics
Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Food Storage Site:
Present
[-510, -334]

King Goujian (496-465 BCE) tried to increase the Yue Kingdom’s power storing up food and wealth. [1]

[1]: (Hsu 1999, 564) Cho-yun Hsu. The Spring and Autumn Period. Michael Loewe. Edward L Shaughnessy. eds. 1999. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.


Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information / Writing System
Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Information / Money
Store Of Wealth:
Present
[-510, -334]

King Goujian (496-465 BCE) tried to increase the Yue Kingdom’s power storing up food and wealth. [1]

[1]: (Hsu 1999, 564) Cho-yun Hsu. The Spring and Autumn Period. Michael Loewe. Edward L Shaughnessy. eds. 1999. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.


Information / Postal System
Information / Measurement System

Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications
Military use of Metals
Projectiles
Handheld weapons
Animals used in warfare
Armor
Naval technology

Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)

Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions
Coding in Progress.