Answer: During the Warring States Period, nobles stopped supporting the Zhou Dynasty (1046–221 BC), and Zhou's vassal states declared themselves independent from Zhou, becoming kingdoms or warring states. Chu became the biggest state. It controlled the southern third of the entire region of the Warring States.
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Liquid water is not a mineral
Pollution and it being near the equator also some of it is
located in the tropic of cancer making some parts of china have a tropical climate
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