Silk Road and Silver – Chinese economy
Ming Dynasty Farmers reaping millet or wheat: the Chinese economy What did most people work at? Just like in earlier times, most men and women in Qing Dynasty China were [...]
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06, 2017
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06, 2017
Chinese clothing – Ming and Qing Dynasties
Qing Dynasty fisherman In the Qing Dynasty, most people kept on dressing the way they had before: both men and women wore mostly loose blue or black cotton shirts over [...]
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05, 2017
Secret History of the Mongols – Central Asian Literature
Genghis Khan The oldest book written in Mongolian is a biography of Genghis Khan, who created the Mongol Empire. Nobody knows who wrote the Secret History, but whoever it was, [...]
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05, 2017
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 [...]
