Where are the Himalaya Mountains? India
Himalaya Mountains India breaks off of Africa About 55 million years ago, plate tectonics made the land that is now India break off from what is now Africa. At this [...]
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Who was Xuanzang? A Buddhist scholar of medieval China
Travels of the Buddhist traveller Xuanzang (T'ang Dynasty, 630 AD) Xuanzang was a great Chinese scholar who lived in the 600s AD, under the T'ang dynasty. He was a Buddhist, [...]
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End of T’ang Dynasty China – Uighurs and Buddhists
Emperor Wuzong Hsuan Tsung's son, the T'ang Emperor Suzong, asked a neighboring power, the Uighur Empire, to help him crush An Lu-shan's rebellion, and by 757 AD, thanks to the [...]
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Empress Wu – T’ang Dynasty China – History
Empress Wu of the T'ang Dynasty Who was Wu Chao? Wu Chao was one of T'ai Tsung's girlfriends. After he died, she became his son's girlfriend too! The son's name [...]
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Qing Dynasty China – History of China – 1600s-1700s
Empress Xiaozhuang In 1644 AD, the Jurchen or Manchu people of Central Asia invaded China and got rid of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchu leaders took over ruling China. They called [...]
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Uighurs – Medieval Central Asia
Uighur princesses (Bezelik Cave) Who were the Uighurs? When the Turkic Gokturk Empire in Central Asia collapsed in 742 AD, the Uighurs got their independence. Who were the Gokturks? More [...]
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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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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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Who were the Gokturks? Central Asian History
The Gokturks: A Gokturk coin, about 576-600 AD (Kyrgyzstan museum) (compare to Sassanian and Byzantine coins of the same time) Bumin Qaghan beats the Rouran About 550 AD, Bumin Qaghan [...]
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Later Central Asian Architecture
Inside the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg (1700s AD) After 1500, architects in Central Asia divided into those who looked west, to Western Europe, for inspiration, those who looked south, to [...]
