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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... leads to some accumulation of wealth , which in turn leads to a society that appears to support more social classes , various ritu- als , and elaborate burials . Their towns are protected by walls of earth , suggesting some kind of ...
... leads Emperor Guangwu to abolish thirty coun- ties in the north and shrink the government bureaucracy there . 33-44 : Intermittent Xiongnu raids force the withdrawal of Chinese farming communi- ties from northern frontier regions . 34 ...
... leads to rebellion and his loss of the Mandate. The first full Japanese embassy to reach post-unification China arrives. 554: A Western Wei army attacks the tempo- rary Liang capital at Jiangling on the central Yangtze, slaughters the ...
John S. Bowman. Weak defenses lead directly to the collapse of the Northern Song in 1126 and a new division of China. The ... leads peasant uprising in present Sichuan. Insurgents demand redis- tribution of wealth from rich to poor. 994 ...
... lead- ing Neoconfucian thinker. 1020: Song government encourages the ex- pansion of schools with grants of land and books. Within eighty years the state school system supports 200,000 students. 1021: The population of ... leads to 30 china.