History of Korea
History of Korea: Early Korean pottery Stone Age Korea The first modern people, and their dogs, probably reached Korea about 40,000 BC. Some of them came east across Central Asia [...]
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Women in early China: swimming to foot-binding
Early Chinese women: A Chinese woman playing polo (T'ang Dynasty, 700s AD) China has always been influenced by the cultures to its south - India and Southeast Asia - where [...]
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Ming Dynasty – Later history of China
Brush rest showing five great mountains of Taoism, but with Arabic writing (Ming Dynasty) The Ming Dynasty in the 1500s AD In 1505 AD, the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde succeeded his [...]
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Manchu to Mao – Quick history of China
Ming Dynasty porcelain pitcher (before Manchu China) What was the Ming Dynasty? Early modern Chinese history starts with the Ming Dynasty, about 1500 AD. The Ming Dynasty was very powerful, [...]
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Empress Cixi – Qing Dynasty China (the 1800s)
Empress Cixi (the Empress Dowager) Cixi takes power as regent When the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China died in 1861 AD, his only son was only five [...]
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Who were the Jurchen? History of Central Asia
Jurchen history: A pottery vase from the Jin Dynasty, ca. 1200 AD (Musee Guimet, Paris) Where did the Jurchen come from? Unlike most of the people living in north Asia, [...]
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Who were the Manchu? Central Asian History
The Manchu leader Nurhaci (1600s AD) Where did the Manchu come from? The Manchu people were descended from the Jurchens. They spoke a language probably closely related to Turkic and [...]
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The Silk Road to the Great Game – Central Asian History
A melon stall in Central Asia After Tamerlane died in 1405, his Altaic people kept on ruling Central Asia, but not as one big empire. There were lots of little [...]
