Confucius lived during when? A. The Shang dynasty, when rival lords vied for power. B. the Zhou dynasty, when rival lords vied for power. C. the Shang dynasty, which was peaceful and prosperous. D. the Zhou dynasty, which was peaceful and prosperous.

Wow, that is a difficult question. He was alive during a period of considerable confusion. It seems likely that most people would consider him to have been around during the first Zhou dynasty. (If that really WAS a dynasty).

I got quite a lot of that from Wiki. (I'm not THAT clever about Chinese dynastys).