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Shang period

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Zhou

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expansion from Shang to Qin

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Han

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Han and its boundaries

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

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Tang dynasty

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

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Silk Road – land and sea routes

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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

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yin/yang with trigrams (陰陽八卦 )

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flag of the Republic of Korea

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examples of oracle-bone writing (jiaguwen 甲骨文 )

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Bronze Age excavation sites

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Standing Figure from Sanxingdui, Sichuan

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