Battle of Guandu
Cao Cao defeats Yuan Shao and becomes master of the north
In 200 Cao Cao, who kept the Han emperor in his custody, faced Yuan Shao's much larger army at Guandu on the Yellow River. A night raid on the grain depots at Wuchao decided the battle: Yuan Shao's army broke up, and within a few years Cao Cao held all of northern China.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 212 Caracalla grants citizenship to all — 12 years later
Middle East
- c. 200 Compilation of the Mishnah — same year
- 224 Rise of the Sasanian Empire — 24 years later
Americas
- c. 200 Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan — same year
Alive at the time
- Galen (aged 71)
- Nagarjuna (aged 50)
- Cao Cao (aged 45)
- Zhuge Liang (aged 19)