As far back as the Qin Dynasty ( 221 BC – 206 BC ), the government required blacksmiths and weapon-makers to engrave their names onto weapons in order to trace the weapons back to them, lest their weapons should prove to be of a lower quality than the standard required by the government.

The Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – AD 220 ) emerged in 206 BC, with its founder Liu Bang proclaimed emperor in 202 BC.

This Roman cavalry superiority was due to the betrayal of Masinissa, who had earlier assisted Carthage in Iberia, but changed sides in 206 BC with the promise of land and due to his personal conflicts with Syphax, a Carthaginian ally.

The Qin Dynasty ( Chinese: 秦朝 ; pinyin: Qín Cháo ) was the first ruling dynasty of Imperial China, lasting from 221 to 206 BC.

During the Qin Dynasty ( 221 – 206 BC ), the region came under the jurisdiction of Panyu County, Nanhai Prefecture of the province of Guangdong.

Starting in the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – 220 AD ), the Chinese hunted extensively for seawater pearls in the South China Sea.

Such hand-games date back to the time of the Chinese Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – 220 AD ),.

* 206 BC – 202 BC: Civil war of the Chu-Han contention in China after the fall of the Qin Dynasty.

* January 206 BC – Ziying, the last ruler of the Qin Dynasty of China

The number of counties has remained more or less constant since the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – AD 220 ).

Chrysippus of Soli ( Ancient Greek:, ; c. 279 BC – c. 206 BC ) was a Greek Stoic philosopher.

The Han Dynasty began when Liu Bang defeated the Qin army and other rebel leaders in 206 BC.

Category: States and territories established in 206 BC

Category: 206 BC establishments

The system was canonized in the Book of Rites, Zhouli, and Yili compendiums of the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – 220 AD ), thus becoming the heart of the Chinese imperial ideology.

First, Pompey was not even a praetor, on which grounds a triumph had been denied in 206 BC to the great Scipio Africanus, who had defeated Rome ´ s outstanding enemy, Hannibal, and brought Rome an entire province in Hispania.

There are numerous theories concerning when the text was completed, and concerning the identity of the author or authors, but archeological recoveries have proven that the Art of War had roughly achieved its current form by at least the early Han dynasty ( 206 BC – AD 220 ).

Extending 4, 000 miles ( 6, 500 km ), the Silk Road gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade along it, which began during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – 220 AD ).

After the Qin Dynasty collapsed in 206 BC, these efforts were abandoned.

206 BC ), who was its third head, and who formalized much of Stoic doctrine.

The emperor's own library still had copies of the forbidden books but most of these were destroyed later when Xiang Yu burned the palaces of Xianyang in 206 BC.

In early 206 BC, after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu divided the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms.

This marked the beginning of a four year power struggle for supremacy over China between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, from 206 BC to 202 BC, known as the Chu – Han Contention.

In 206 BC, Liu Bang beat Xiang Yu in the race to Guanzhong and arrived at Xianyang, the capital of Qin.

Starting in 206 BC after Liu Bang's forces conquered the Three Qins, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu engaged in four year long power struggle for supremacy over China, known as the Chu – Han contention.

Xiang Yu paid no attention to Liu Bang's presumptive title and led his troops into Xianyang in 206 BC.

In the spring of 206 BC, Xiang Yu divided the empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms, to be granted to his subordinates and some leaders of the former rebel forces.

After the fall of the Qin Dynasty in 206 BC, Xiang divided the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms, while Zhang and his two deputies were granted the region of Guanzhong as their fiefs.

In 206 BC, after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu, nephew of Xiang Liang, proclaimed himself " Hegemon-King of Western Chu " and promoted King Huai II to the more honorific title of " Emperor Yi of Chu ", but he had the emperor assassinated later.

* Xiang Yu ( 项羽 ) as Hegemon-King of Western Chu ( 西楚霸王 ) ruled 206 – 202 BC

In 206 BC, Han Xin deserted Xiang Yu's army and went to join Liu Bang.

In 206 BC, Liu Bang was granted the title of " King of Han " by Xiang Yu after the latter divided the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms, and was relocated to the remote Bashu region ( in present-day Sichuan ).

In 206 BC, Liu Bang conquered the Three Qins and left Xiao He in charge of Guanzhong and Bashu, while he led his army eastward to attack Xiang Yu's Western Chu kingdom.

Xiang Yu then killed Ziying and burned Xianyang in 206 BC, thereby forever robbing humanity of some unique copies of the many " forbidden books " kept in the royal library.

The Eighteen Kingdoms ( 十八国 ) refer to the eighteen feudal principalities / kingdoms created by Xiang Yu in China in 206 BC, after the collapse of the Qin Dynasty.

In 206 BC the Qin Dynasty ceased to exist, and the Yue peoples of Guilin and Xiang were largely independent once more.

The main parties involved in the banquet were Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, two prominent leaders of insurgent forces who rebelled against the Qin Dynasty from 209 BC to 206 BC.

Fan Zeng's prediction came true in 202 BC as Xiang Yu eventually lost to Liu Bang in the power struggle for supremacy over China from 206 BC to 202 BC, known as the Chu – Han Contention.

During the Qin Dynasty ( 221 to 206 BC ), the Chinese army, under the command of General Meng Tian, drove the Xiongnu tribes away and recaptured the Ordos region.

After suffering defeat at Ilipa in 206 BC, Hasdrubal Gisco returned to Africa and Mago retreated to Gades ( modern Cádiz ) with the remnants of his army.

Again in 206 BC, the Seleucid emperor Antiochus led an army to the Kabul valley, where he received war elephants and presents from the local king Sophagasenus:

The city of Italica ( Spanish: Itálica ; north of modern day Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain ) was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was defeated during the Second Punic War.

The bridge was built by consul Gaius Claudius Nero in 206 BC after he had defeated the Carthaginan army in the Battle of the Metaurus.