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the major alternating transitions from bouts of war to spells of peace
and vice versa, as these stand in the preceding table recording the parti-
cular series—Western, Hellenic, or Sinic, as the case may be—which
this column reproduces. Dates of transitions from peace to war are printed
in roman type, dates of transitions from war to peace in italics. The

TABLE IV. A Synoptic Table of the Dates marking Turn-
ing-points from Bouts of War to Spells of Peace and vice
versa in the Modern and post-Modern Western, the post-
Alexandrine Hellenic, and the post-Confucian Sinic Series
of War-and-Peace Cycles1

Historical Western Dates
Transposed Corresponding Dates*
Historical Hellenic Dates
Transposed Corresponding Dates*
Historical Sinic Dates
Transposed Corresponding Dates'*

Hellenic Sinic

Western Sinic

Western Hellenic

14773 1482+ 1494
C-T50J]
[1521]
•T525
1536 *559
A.D. (1479 ) (3:484 ) (1485 1493) (.1499 ^5°°) (1518 ) O5-T9 ) (1534 1535) (1559 ^537*)
331
l3*«]s [3 IS]6 301 282 281 266
B.C.
(323 ) (3i8 ) (306 307) (297 300) (279 ) (275 ) (364 365) (241 263*)
497
490
455
B.C.
(496 505) (487 49**) ( ) ( ) (454 456) (431* 431*)

1618 1648 1672 1x697-] [1702] J7J3 1733 *763
(1629* 1636*) (1654 J65°) (1667 1657*) (*689 ) (1709 ) (^720 1743*) (1751* 1760*) (1769 1769)
171 I46 133 in 90 80 49 31
(182* 164) (153 150) (128 143)
(JOJ )
(9S ) (8? 57*) (67* 40) (37 31}
370 354 34° 333
247 230
22T
(381* 379) (.372* 361) (34S 336) (3i8* 323) ( ) ( ) (377* 270*) (257* 230)
(227 231)

1 Dates of turning-points from peace to war are printed in roman type, dates of turning-points
from war to peace in italics. Dates enclosed in square brackets are those of minor turning-points.

z A transposed date is marked with an asterisk when it falls more than ten years wide of the
corresponding historical date with which it is being brought into comparison.

3 Date of the outbreak of war over the inheritance of the Burgundian Valois Duke Charles
the Bold.

* Date of the peace-settlement partitioning the inheritance of Charles the Bold between the
French Crown and the Burgundian Valois-Hapsburgs.

5 Date of the liquidation of Eumenes.

6 Date of the formation of the coalition against Antigonus Monaphthalmus.

dates between square brackets in these left-hand columns are those of
minor transitions which, in the tables, are identified in footnotes. The
pair of dates between round brackets by which each of the dates in the
left-hand columns is accompanied are transpositions of the correspond-
ing dates in each of the other two series into terms of the historical series
represented by the dates on the left hand of each triple column. An
Hellenic date is transposed into a Western date by the addition of i,8co
years, and into a Sinic date by the subtraction of 190 years, on the
reckoning that the Western Civilization emerged about 1,800 years later