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China –
Origins and Historical Overview
© Howard R. Spendelow
Georgetown University23 Jul 2013
China’s topography
rainfall distribution
China-centered history
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examples of oracle-bone writing (jiaguwen 甲骨文 )
oracle bones
Standing Figure from Sanxingdui, Sichuan
Bronze Age excavation sites
Shang period
Shang period cultural sites
Zhou
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Warring States, around the time of Confucius
Warring States 戰國
Qin 秦
Han
Han and the Xiongnu, c. 135 BCE
Han and its boundaries
Three Kingdoms, 262
Eurasia, 565
East Asia during the Sui
Tang dynasty
Tang, Tibet, & Central Asia – c. 700 CE
early Tang empire
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)
Ming period provinces
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Zheng He’s voyages
Zheng He’s routes and final destinations
Jan Adkins’ 1993 comparative sketch (China/Columbus’ Santa Maria)
”Qilin” by Shen Du, 1414
Qing Dynasty
Qing Expansion
劇終(the end)
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