India cotton bolls hanging from the plants India cotton farming About 2500 BC, a thousand years after people started to grow cotton in Peru, the Harappan people in India also [...]
Kongming's Light, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Kites came first People in China started to fly kites made of silk and bamboo by about 800 BC. Maybe flying [...]
Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty Who were the Mongols? In 1276 AD, when the Mongols invaded and took over China, they had already been ruling a large empire for about [...]
Hung-Wu Emperor (National Palace Museum, Taipei) When did the Ming Dynasty get started? After the Hungwu Emperor threw the Mongols out in 1368 AD, he established the Ming Dynasty. But [...]
A T'ang Dynasty emperor In 220 AD, Han Dynasty China fell apart into three medium-sized kingdoms, so people call this the Three Kingdoms period. In 581 AD, a general named [...]
Yuan Dynasty china bowls Mongols and Chinese art You might think that the invasion of the Mongols in 1279 AD would have killed off a lot of artists and there wouldn't [...]
Yonglegong Taoist temple in Shangxi (1247 AD) When the Mongols conquered China in the 1200s AD, they did not bring in their own architecture, but continued the older Song Dynasty [...]
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 [...]
Scythian woman fighting Greeks (Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, ca. 350 BC) Central Asian soldiers were famous for fighting on horseback. Because Central Asian people spent a lot of time on horseback, [...]
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, [...]
