Cao Cao

Controlled the last Han emperor, united northern China and laid the foundations of Cao Wei; also a leading poet, he died in Luoyang.

Lived	AD 155 – AD 220
Known as	Warlord and poet
Birthplace or main place	Bozhou
Places on the map	Luoyang

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Who ruled these places in his lifetime

Place	At birth (map of AD 100)	At death (map of AD 200)
Bozhou	Han	same
Luoyang	Han	same

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Battles and sites of the time

Battle of Red Cliffs · AD 208

Contemporaries

Lived	Person
AD 161 – AD 223	Liu Bei	Founder of Shu Han
AD 181 – AD 234	Zhuge Liang	Chancellor of Shu Han
AD 121 – AD 180	Marcus Aurelius	Roman emperor and philosopher
c. AD 100 – AD 170	Ptolemy	Astronomer and geographer

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.

Cao Cao

Who ruled these places in his lifetime

Battles and sites of the time

Further reading

Contemporaries