Han Dynasty Architecture – Ancient China
Eastern Han watchtower (an ancient Chinese model, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) What did people build in the Han Dynasty? By the time of the Han Dynasty, about [...]
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Chang’an – T’ang Dynasty Chinese Architecture
The walls of Chang'an under the T'ang Dynasty (ca. 700 AD) People have been living in the city of Chang'an in China since the Stone Age. But Chang'an reached its [...]
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Three Kingdoms Architecture – China
Three Kingdoms architecture: Mogao Caves (366 AD and later) First Buddhist temples in China Beginning in 366 AD, people in China built the earliest Buddhist temples in China. These first Buddhist temples [...]
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Later Chinese religion – 1500 to the present
In 1500 AD, most people in China prayed to their traditional gods. The most accepted philosophy was Taoism. But many other people were Buddhists, and rejected Taoism. Because of the Mongol Empire [...]
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Monkey: Journey to the West
These Buddhist figures are made of mammoth ivory An early Chinese travel novel Wu Cheng'en (probably) wrote his novel, A Journey to the West, in the Ming Dynasty, in [...]
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Central Asian religion from Deva to Islam
Bamiyan Buddhas (Afghanistan, ca. 500 AD, now destroyed by the Taliban) - Central Asian religion Many different religions Central Asia's wide steppe is very easy to ride horses or camels [...]
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Medieval Tibet – History of Central Asia
Medieval Tibet: Changzhug Monastery, Tibet (600s AD) Where is Tibet? Tibet lies between India and China, just north of the Himalaya Mountains. People have been living in Tibet since about [...]
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White Huns – Central Asian history
A White Hun coin In the 300s AD, the White Huns were living in the kingdom of the Rouran, in Central Asia north-west of China. Probably the White Huns were mostly [...]
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Central Asian Art
Tillya Tepe gold crown - Afghanistan, ca. 100 BC-100 AD Art you can carry around Because the people of Central Asia started out as nomads, riding their horses and camels [...]
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Russian Literature
Leo Tolstoy (ca. 1900) The Mongol Empire spread reading and writing all across Central Asia. From the time of the Mongol Empire on, people in Central Asia were able to [...]
