China –

Origins and Historical Overview

© Howard R. Spendelow

Georgetown University11 Jul 2007

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Shang period

Zhou

expansion from Shang to Qin

Han

Han and its boundaries

Divisions in the Northern & Southern Courts (5th cent. CE)

Tang dynasty

Tang, Tibet, & Central Asia – c. 700 CE

Silk Road – land and sea routes

China as part of the Mongol Empire, late 12th cent. CE

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Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

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Qing Expansion

yin/yang with trigrams (陰陽八卦 )

flag of the Republic of Korea

examples of oracle-bone writing (jiaguwen 甲骨文 )

Bronze Age excavation sites

Standing Figure from Sanxingdui, Sichuan

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