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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... empire's borders north and north- west into modern Mongolia . 219-210 B.C .: Qin extends the empire's bor- ders southward into the fertile , well - watered , and semi - tropical region of modern Guang- dong and Guangxi provinces . 219 ...
... empire , gradually re- placing their rulers with members of his family . 195-188 B.C .: Gaodi's son succeeds him as emperor , reigning as Huidi . 190 B.C .: After a five - year effort , Han military engineers complete the construction ...
... Empire . He reestab- lishes China's control over the insurgent west and leads an army westward to the edge of the Caspian Sea , 3,800 miles from Luo- yang . He returns to China with information about Rome , the great empire of the West ...
... Empire in the west . It is the longest period of disunion in Chinese history . The main trend of the close of the Later Han. dred of their rivals to death . Their families go under a perpetual ban of government ser- vice ; the ban covers ...
... empire. But for most of this nearly three-hundred-year period, China is politically divided south and north. The warlord ascendancy of Later Han forms the structure of Chinese society until the Sui/Tang reunification around 600. Chinese ...