State · 771 – 256 BCE

Eastern Zhou

A state of 771 – 256 BCE — 515 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Western Zhou. It was replaced by Qin. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 24 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 515 years; 771 BCE – 256 BCE
Rulers: 24; the Chinese king
Most ground: 9,700 km²; in 750 BCE
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Eastern Zhou in 750 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Eastern Zhou in 750 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 9,700 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Eastern Zhou in 750 BCE, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Eastern Zhou in 350 BCE, last mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Western Zhou · replaces · 1046 – 771 BCE

After it

Qin · replaced by · 905 – 221 BCE

Rulers

The line of Chinese king.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
King Ping of Zhou	771 BCE – 720 BCE	51 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
King Huan of Zhou	719 BCE – 697 BCE	22 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	grandchild
King Zhuang of Zhou	696 BCE – 682 BCE	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Hui of Zhou	676 BCE – 651 BCE	25 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	grandchild
King Xiang of Zhou	652 BCE – 619 BCE	33 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Qing of Zhou	618 BCE – 613 BCE	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Kuang of Zhou	612 BCE – 607 BCE	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Ding of Zhou	606 BCE – 586 BCE	20 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
King Jian of Zhou	585 BCE – 572 BCE	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Ling of Zhou	571 BCE – 545 BCE	26 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Jing of Zhou	544 BCE – 520 BCE	24 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Dao of Zhou	520 BCE – 520 BCE	under a year	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
King Jing of Zhou (Gai)	519 BCE – 477 BCE	42 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Yuan of Zhou	476 BCE – 469 BCE	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Zhending of Zhou	468 BCE – 441 BCE	27 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Si of Zhou	441 BCE – 441 BCE	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Ai of Zhou	441 BCE – 441 BCE	under a year	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	sibling
King Kao of Zhou	440 BCE – 426 BCE	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
King Weilie of Zhou	425 BCE – 402 BCE	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King An of Zhou	402 BCE – 376 BCE	26 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Lie of Zhou	376 BCE – 369 BCE	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Xian of Zhou	368 BCE – 321 BCE	47 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
King Shenjing of Zhou	320 BCE – 315 BCE	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Nan of Zhou	315 BCE – 256 BCE	59 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

24 rulers, 24 with terms dated as terms, covering 771 BCE – 256 BCE. Median reign 21 years. 3 of 23 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

9,700 km² in 746 BCE, 4,000 km² in 271 BCE; at its largest 9,700 km² in 746 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

700 BCE – 601 BCE1 row

Duke Wen of Jin · ruler · 697 – 628 BCE

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood515 years
stood longer than 87% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held9,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 14% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median22 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 68% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record24
has more rulers on record than 93% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 823 BCE – 204 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 750 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q307066 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.