China – Origins and Historical Overview © Howard R. Spendelow Georgetown University 23 Jul 2013
Chinas topography
rainfall distribution
China-centered history
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examples of oracle-bone writing (jiaguwen )
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
Qin
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 12 th cent. CE
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Ming Dynasty ( )
Ming period provinces
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Zheng Hes voyages
Zheng Hes routes and final destinations
Jan Adkins 1993 comparative sketch (China/Columbus Santa Maria)
Qilin by Shen Du, 1414
Qing Dynasty
Qing Expansion
(the end)
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