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Japanese era of prolonged civil warfare among regional military rulers preceding unification.

Global armed conflict from 1939 to 1945, including war in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, mass civilian suffering and major geopolitical change.

First major phase of Roman imperial rule, from Augustus to the accession of Diocletian, retaining republican institutions alongside imperial authority.

Korean dynasty characterized by Neo-Confucian governance and lasting cultural and social institutions.

Chinese imperial dynasty from 618 to 907, marked by state expansion, major urban centers and far-reaching cultural exchange.

Manchu-led dynasty ruling China from the seventeenth century until the end of imperial government in 1912.

Era of Tokugawa shogunal government in Japan, marked by relative domestic stability and distinctive urban culture.

Conflict on the Korean Peninsula from 1950 to the 1953 armistice, involving North and South Korea and major international intervention, leaving the peninsula divided.

Period of competing states in ancient China ending with political unification under Qin.

Final years of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, from the opening of the country to foreign powers to the political transition surrounding the Meiji Restoration.

The trans-Eurasian empire established by Genghis Khan and his successors, later divided among several khanates.

Major Pacific and Asian theater of World War II, conventionally dated here from Japan’s December 1941 attacks through its surrender in 1945; the wider Sino-Japanese conflict began earlier.

The Japanese aerial attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 7 December 1941, prompting the United States to enter World War II.

A major defeat of Cao Cao by the allied forces of Sun Quan and Liu Bei near the Yangtze River during the late Eastern Han. Generally dated to winter 208; alternative chronology extends into early 209.

The Roman execution of Jesus of Nazareth in Jerusalem during the prefecture of Pontius Pilate.

Multiple mountaineers died in a violent storm during summit attempts on Everest in May 1996.

A powerful undersea earthquake off Sumatra produced a devastating tsunami across Indian Ocean coastlines.

Goguryeo defenders resisted a Tang assault at Ansi during the 645 invasion.

UN and Chinese troops fought around the Chosin Reservoir in a crucial Korean War engagement.

Yi Sun-sin's Joseon fleet defeated Japanese warships near Hansan Island during the Imjin War.

Saladin’s decisive victory over the army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which destroyed the kingdom’s main field force and opened the way for the reconquest of Jerusalem.

Silla forces defeated Baekje troops in a decisive battle during the unification wars.

U.S. and Japanese forces fought for Iwo Jima in a major Pacific battle.

A naval battle in which the Joseon fleet under Admiral Yi Sun-sin defeated a much larger Japanese force in the Myeongnyang Strait.

Jewish preacher whose ministry and crucifixion form the narrative center of the film.

Roman prefect of Judea who presided over the authority responsible for Jesus’s crucifixion.

Joseon admiral and naval commander who led the Korean victory at the Battle of Myeongnyang.

The Ayyubid sultan who defeated the crusader army at Hattin and retook Jerusalem in 1187.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, meets Harrer as a child and becomes his student and friend during the late 1940s.

The principal setting, undergoing political centralization, military modernization, and the decline of the samurai order.

The broad geographic setting of the story.

The major political and religious center of Judea and the setting for much of the film’s story.

Capital city of South Korea and a major historical setting for modern Korean political history.

Country on the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.

Country in Southeast Asia.

Country in East Asia.

Capital of the Roman Empire.

The Latin Christian polity in the Levant where the film’s court politics, frontier warfare, and defense of Jerusalem unfold.