The Classical WorldWar & Conflict Sun Tzu's Art of War c. 500 BCEMajor A Chinese treatise on strategy still read by generals and executives. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → First fired clay figures → First pottery → Copper smelting → Bronze Age begins → Shang dynasty → Sun Tzu's Art of War Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentgutenberg.orgThe Art of War (Project Gutenberg) ↗Editor's pickDocumentclassics.mit.eduThe Art of War, Sun Tzu, trans. Lionel Giles (Internet Classics Archive) ↗Editor's pickBookSun Tzu, trans. Samuel B. GriffithThe Art of War ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeSun Tzu Art of War explained ↗Editor's pick