Although the Neijing has long been attributed to the mythical Yellow Emperor ( twenty-7th century BC ), Chinese scholars started doubting this attribution as early as the 11th century and now usually date the Neijing to the late Warring States period ( 5th century-221 BC ).

The dynasty also spans the period in which the written script evolved into its modern form with the use of an archaic clerical script that emerged during the late Warring States period.

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu ( also referred to as " Sun Wu " and " Sunzi "), a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician, and it was believed to have been compiled during the late Spring and Autumn period or early Warring States period.

Originally bronze, these weapons were made of iron or steel by the time of the late Warring States period as metallurgical knowledge became sufficiently advanced to control the carbon content.

The earliest documented occurrence of ancient siege-artillery pieces in China was the levered principled traction catapult and an 8-foot-high siege crossbow from the Mozi ( Mo Jing ), a Mohist text written at about the 4th-3rd century BCE by followers of Mozi who founded the Mohist school of thought during the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States period.

Qin rose to prominence in the late 3rd century BC after the reforms and emerged as one of the dominant superpowers of the Seven Warring States.

His cult became prominent in the late Warring States and early Han period, when he was portrayed as the originator of the centralized state, a patron of esoteric arts, a cosmic ruler, and a lord of the underworld.

Yang Kuan, a member of the same historiographical current, noted that only in the late Warring States had the Yellow Emperor started to be described as the first ruler of China.

Chang sees Huangdi and other cultural heroes as " ancient religious figures " who were " euhemerized " in the late Warring States and Han periods.

" Citing late Warring States and early Han versions of Huangdi's myth, he further argues that the figure of the Yellow Emperor originated in ancient rain-making rituals in which the Yellow Emperor represented the power of rain and clouds, whereas his mythical rival Chi You ( or Yandi ) stood for fire and drought.

However, recent archaeological discoveries and scholarship have led some scholars to conclude that the direct ancestor of clerical script was proto-clerical script, which in turn evolved out of the little-known vulgar or popular writing of the late Warring States to Qin period ( see Qiu Xigui, in references ).

Xu Shen did not know it at the time, but this " Zhòu script " dated from the late Western Zhōu Dynasty, and the " Zhòu script " was thus much older than the Warring States and Qin forms that he was analyzing.

The well-field system () was a Chinese land distribution method existing between the ninth century BCE ( late Western Zhou Dynasty ) to around the end of the Warring States Period.

In addition, artistic scripts also emerged in the late Spring and Autumn to early Warring States, such as Bird Script ( 鳥書 niǎoshū ), also called Bird Seal Script ( niǎozhuàn 鳥篆 ), and Worm Script ( chóngshū 蟲書 ).

Image: Chinese character 寅 yin2 from late Warring States bronze. svg | Late Warring States

By the mid to late Spring and Autumn period, artistic derivative scripts with vertically elongated forms appeared on bronzes, especially in the eastern and southern states, and remained in use into the Warring States period ( see detail of inscription from the Warring States Tomb of Marquis Yĭ of Zēng below left ).

In the same areas, in the late Spring and Autumn to early Warring States, scripts which embellished basic structures with decorative forms such as birds or worms also appeared.

In the early Warring States period, typical bronze inscriptions were similar in content and length to those in the late Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn period.

In the mid to late Warring States period, the average length of inscriptions decreased greatly.

In Warring States period bronze inscriptions, trends from the late Spring and Autumn period continue, such as the use of artistically embellished scripts ( e. g., Bird and Insect Scripts ) on decorated bronze items.

Meanwhile, the Qin vulgar writing evolved into early clerical ( or proto-clerical ) in the late Warring States to Qin dynasty period, which would then evolve further into the clerical script used in the Han through the Wei-Jin periods.

Remains have been found from the Mid-Neolithic Age ( about 3000 BC ), the late Neolithic Age ( about 2000 BC ), the early to late Bronze Age of coastal South China ( 1500-500 BC ), the period of the Warring States to the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC-220 AD ), the Tang Dynasty ( 618-917 AD ) and the Qing Dynasty ( 1644-1911 AD ).

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.

( `` In the late forties and fifties '', Coombs has declared in defining his role, `` two strong new arms were added to reinforce United States foreign policy economic assistance and military assistance.

Throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had been developing a series of missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads.

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

The election gave Democrats full control of the United States Congress, the first time one party controlled both the executive and legislative branches since Democrats held the 95th United States Congress during the Jimmy Carter presidency in the late 1970s.

By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

Anthrax was used in a series of attacks on the offices of several United States Senators in late 2001.

In the late 20th century the Bald Eagle was on the brink of extirpation in the continental United States, while flourishing in much of Alaska and Canada.

The UK sought to acquire the much longer-ranged United States Air Force AGM-48 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile, and was greatly frustrated when that weapon was cancelled in late 1962.

In recent history, born again is a term that has been widely associated with the evangelical Christian renewal since the late 1960s, first in the United States and then later around the world.

In late 2003, transgenic zebrafish that express green, red, and yellow fluorescent proteins became commercially available in the United States.

Stanford University historian Jack N. Rakove stated that " The voluminous records we have for the constitutional debates of the late 1780s contain no significant references to the Iroquois " and stated that there are ample European precedents to the democratic institutions of the United States.

This upset the United States greatly and contributed to there view that of Prince Sihanouk as a North Vietnamese sympathizer and a thorn on the United States. However, declassified documents indicate that, as late as March 1970, the Nixon administration was hoping to garner " friendly relations " with Sihanouk.

Some scholars argue that conspiracy theories once limited to fringe audiences have become commonplace in mass media, contributing to conspiracism emerging as a cultural phenomenon in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the possible replacement of democracy by conspiracy as the dominant paradigm of political action in the public mind.

Social critics have adopted this term to refer to how the synthesis of paranoid conspiracy theories, which were once limited to American fringe audiences, has given them mass appeal and enabled them to become commonplace in mass media, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

In late October 2010, University of Michigan biologist Barry O ' Connor concluded that all of the ' chupacabras ' reports in the United States were simply coyotes infected with the parasite Sarcoptes scabiei, the symptoms of which would explain most of the features of the chupacabras: they would be left with little fur, thickened skin, and rank odour.

It shares the same roots as the English of the United States because it was based on the immigration of British Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century.

After World War II, from the late 40s until the early 60s, there was a resurgence in interest in home crafts, particularly in the United States, with many new and imaginative crochet designs published for colorful doilies, potholders, and other home items, along with updates of earlier publications.

New Jersey reduced these taxes after this mistake was realized, but by then it was too late ; even today, most major public corporations in the United States are set up under Delaware law.

Fighting in Afghanistan also intensified, but in the late autumn of 1984 the United States and the Soviet Union did agree to resume arms control talks in early 1985.