"Spring to Autumn" started with 千金一笑 and 烽火戏诸侯 flashing with certain not so well connected stories such as 掘地见母，暗箭伤人. Soon after the show of "Spring to Autumn" started, many respectable nobilities focused their attention on becoming the supreme leader of the allies (霸主) to nominally support the Emperor of 周 but in reality gaining the true authority (挟天子以令诸侯 -- 原版).

公子小白/公子纠/齐桓公/春秋五霸之首 管鲍之交 任人唯贤

重耳逃难 土贵于金 退避三舍

楚庄王/伍举 一鸣惊人

秦穆公 秦晋之好 放虎归山

宋襄公 （蠢猪似的仁义道德 - the "pig thinking" type of moral standard）

阖闾 / 夫差 how fast even a good king can be trapped into the state of free fall

勾践 卧薪尝胆 how fast a defeated king can rise from the ashes like phoenix

About the time when Rome was to become Roman Republic, China entered a the period of "Waring States", with seven of the states standing strong - 齐楚燕赵韩魏秦 - a small number of states reduced from hundreds of them earlier. The dominant power in Europe was not Romans yet, but Greeks. It was said then Romans were great at waging wars, but still lack of imagination when it came to culture and religions. Roman language was later called "Latin" language, and "Latin" was its surrounding area. The religion of Rome at first was merely a copy of the Greek mythologies such as Zeus became Jupiter and Hera became Juno, not to mention several hundred years later, Romans adopted Christianity as its state religion. However, Roman emperors tend to alternate between warriors and faithful believers of Gods, and religion helped Romans to build disciplined military forces comparing to that of its neighbors. It looked like morals of a military could be better when soldiers were able to distinguish honor from treachery, bravery from cowardliness and glory from shame. Someone said Romans were soldiers taking oath seriously, not monks taking military training seriously. In the end, might didn't make everything right, but did build thousand year civilizations. Justice would eventually triumph over injustice, but the version of justice could be revised by the victors.

三家分晋 战国七雄

When this period started Rome was still weaker than Greeks and Persians, but enjoying quite a unique geographic location to grow in peace time and rehabilitate after disasters and wars, like that of North American continent many light-years later, or the Japanese islands before her rising onto the world stage.

Famous Greek city states rose up to fight the Persians and Alexander the Great took his fight to the vast areas of Asia all the way to India, along with a group of writers and philosophers. Such act was pretty much like Napoleon many light-years away taking biographers with him into battles to record the great deeds of him and his army.

With the natural barrier of great mountains and plateaus, China never saw, or even heard much about, Alexander the Great, who was later depicted in the Inferno by Divine Comedy.

China was busy with following lead players and events in her history.