Medieval China – History
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 [...]
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Food in ancient China – rice and tea
Chinese food Chinese food: rice Rice was the first grain that people farmed in China, and rice is such a basic food in China that the Chinese words for "cook" [...]
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Yuan Dynasty Chinese art – Mongols in China
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 [...]
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Ming Dynasty Chinese art – Medieval China
Ming Dynasty Chinese art Ming emperors unify Chinese art After the Mongols were thrown out of China, and the Chinese emperors took over again in the Ming Dynasty of the [...]
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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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Sogdians in China – History of Central Asia
Sogdian traders in China about 550 AD (Musee Guimet) Sogdians and the Silk Road Even after the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Sogdians still controlled Silk Road trade between West [...]
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Sogdians and the Silk Road – Central Asia
Gold coin from Sogdiana in the Hellenistic period The Sogdians meet Alexander Then in 328 or 327 BC the Macedonian conqueror Alexander conquered the Sogdians. Earlier Sogdian history Alexander the Great [...]
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Scythians and Sogdians – Early Central Asia
Central Asian yurts Nomads were travelling around Central Asia probably by 50,000 BC or so. By 24,000 BC, if not earlier, these nomads had split into at least two different [...]
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Central Asian board games
Kids playing knucklebones (Burma) Central Asian people played a lot of active games, but they also played games sitting down. Because Central Asian people spent a lot of time herding cattle and [...]
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Knotted rugs – Central Asian Economy
Pazyryk rug (ca. 300 BC) Where are the first knotted rugs from? The world's first knotted rugs were probably made just south of the Caspian Sea in what is now [...]
