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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... million years old, that some experts claim as hominids but other see as prehominid apes. In any case, this appears to be an isolated instance, and the main focus on early hominids in China remains on the fossils found at the Zhoukoudian ...
... million over those 138 years to 48 million. By the middle of the second century, southward migration brings the north-south population closer to balance, though the north still dominates. Xiongnu and Tibetan raids have forced 6.5 million ...
... million cash. 184–185: The so-called Yellow Turbans re- bellion rages to the south, east, and northeast ofLuoyang. Several hundred thousand peasants rise up when omens and visions persuade them that the Han dynasty should be brought to ...
... million households from only 4 million in 589. 607: Tightening his grip on power, Yangdi orders the execution of three of his critics in senior government posts. 11th month, 617: With support from Turkish allies, the Sui 20 china.
... million. The Song extends China's cultural, artistic, and technological achievement despite intermittent warfare with the neighboring Xia and Jin states. Books assume increasing importance: not only literary and philosophical works, but ...