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Sun Tzu
496 BCE - Outside Gusu
Outside Gusu, in a borrowed room above a boat-shed, the strategist whose principles shaped warfare for two thousand years sets down what the generals always misunderstand.
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Outside Gusu
Alive in this timeline around 496 BCE / story span 496 BC
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Athens, Greece
Alive in this timeline around 429 BCE / story span 5th century BCE
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Sun Tzu
496 BCE - Outside Gusu
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Outside Gusu, in a borrowed room above a boat-shed, the strategist whose principles shaped warfare for two thousand years sets down what the generals always misunderstand.
- 429 BCE
