1. China – Origins and Historical Overview © Howard R. Spendelow Georgetown University 11 Jul 2007

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3. Shang period

4. Zhou

5. expansion from Shang to Qin

6. Han

7. Han and its boundaries

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

9. Tang dynasty

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

11. Silk Road – land and sea routes

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

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14. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

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17. Qing Expansion

18. yin/yang with trigrams ( )

19. flag of the Republic of Korea

20. examples of oracle-bone writing (jiaguwen )

21. Bronze Age excavation sites

22. Standing Figure from Sanxingdui, Sichuan

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