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*''Born: [[155]]''
*''Died: [[220]]''

Cao Cao was a warlord of the decades immediately preceding China's [[Three Kingdoms (China)|Three Kingdoms]] Period, and features prominently in the ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''.

He vied with [[Yuan Shao]], [[Liu Bei]], and [[Sun Quan]] for power and territory. In [[215]], he secured the fealty of the [[Celestial Masters Rebellion|Celestial Masters]], a rebel group which had been controlling [[Sichuan province]] for decades.

Cao Cao died in [[220]], the same year the [[Han Dynasty]] formally fell. His son, [[Cao Pi]], founded the state of [[Cao Wei]], while Liu Bei and Sun Quan founded the kingdoms of [[Shu Han]] and [[Eastern Wu]] respectively, marking the beginning of the Three Kingdoms Period, Yuan Shao having been already defeated sometime previous.

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==References==
*Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 73.

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