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Facts About China’s Early Shang Dynasty’s Neighbors; The Erlitou Culture;...
Emperor Yongle in China’s Ming Dynasty put up a great spread in the early 15th century. Beijing’s Forbidden City was a heck of a lot more impressive than any of the homes I’ve seen from the hills over...
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Facts About The Origins of Bronze Technology In Ancient China’s Shang Dynasty
When ancient China’s emerging Shang Dynasty conquered the Erlitou culture and became the dominant power in the Yellow River’s Central Plain, cities had already been growing. Kings were centralizing...
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Facts About Ancient China’s Early Shang Dynasty; Part One
One of the best history buzzes I got during my recent trip through China was walking on the ancient walls of the great Shang capital Zhengzhou. The wall in this pic’s actually a reconstruction. I’ll...
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Facts About China’s Early Shang Dynasty; Part Two
Here’s a shot of a reconstructed portion of the Shang Dynasty city walls of Zhengzhou. This is what the area around a gate might have looked like. 11 openings have been found in Zhengzhou’s Shang...
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Facts About China’s Early Shang Dynasty; Part Three
One thousand years before the Shang Dyansty’s capital, Zhengzhou, was bustling, the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza. These monuments are so beautiful and magnificent that...
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The Good Earth In Ancient China’s Thought
Ancient China and ancient Greece and Rome are natural contrasts. Their lands are very different. The thought patterns and art forms from both regions reflect experiences of living in different...
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Ancient China Before The Shang Dynasty; Facts And Maybes About The Yangshao...
I wrote a few posts about China’s Xia and Shang Dynasties in December. But we’ll get very ancient here and explore an even earlier period and find some of the origins of Chinese culture. The...
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Ancient China Before The Shang Dynasty; Facts And Maybes About The Yangshao...
I said that I don’t have any weird animal fetishes in an earlier post. But I guess I do have a fetish for ancient cultures. This is because all over the world, I’ve found that thought patterns which...
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Ancient China Before The Shang Dynasty; Facts And Maybes About The Yangshao...
Ancient China took on Chinese characteristics during the very ancient Yangshao period (5000-3000BCE). Villages centered on farming had grown along the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, and their remains show...
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Women In China Trying To Overcome Ancient Cultural Baggage; Quickflight
The court of China’s Late Song Dynasty settled by Hangzhou’s West Lake. Its ethereal beauty inspired some of the most refined landscape painting in Chinese history. So I thought I’d offend the...
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The Great Women Of China Impressed Me As Much As The Great Wall
I just realized that I haven’t shared this story before. I just told it to a new friend, so I’ll share it here, since it happened when my homepage photo was taken. There were a lot of local farmers...
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