Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and CultureJohn S. Bowman Columbia University Press, 2000 M09 5 - 512 pages Containing more information on Asian culture than any other English-language reference work, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture is the first of its kind: a set of more than thirty chronologies for all the countries of Asia—East, South, Southeast, and Central—from the Paleolithic era through 1998. Each entry is clearly dated and, unlike most chronologies found in standard history texts, the entries are complete and detailed enough to provide virtually a sequential history of the vast and rich span of Asian cultures. The contributing writers and editors have ensured the book's usefulness to general readers by identifying individuals and groups, locating places and regions, explaining events and movements, and defining unfamiliar words and concepts. |
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... central asia Mongolia Central Asian Republics Tibet 379 384 389 393 400 409 415 436 452 465 476 488 501 506 521 547 566 577 Appendix 1: National/Independence Days 583 Appendix 2: Scientific-Technological Achievements in Asia 590 ...
John S. Bowman. consultants and contributors consultants Central Asia (Mongolia, Central Asian Republics) Morris Rossabi Professor of History City University of New York China Robert Hymes Professor of Chinese History Department of East ...
... Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. It should also be admitted that there are several gray areas, countries that might have been included. The most obvious one, perhaps, is Afghanistan; but because this chronology ...
... central and northeastern China. Eventually this hominid species is replaced by the archaic Homo sapiens, which in China sometime after 250,000 b.c. By around 50,000 bp, Homo sapiens sapiens replaces previous hominids in China. By 12,000 ...
... central China is the oldest known Homo erectus fossil found in China . 500,000-250,000 B.C .: Hominids of the spe- cies Homo erectus inhabit caves at Zhoukou- dian , a limestone hill on the edge of China's north - central plain about ...