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Emperor Qin Shi Huang's terracotta army guarding his burial site and protecting his entry to the afterlife from the earthen side of a continuing archeological project is certainly one of the most memorable parts of any trip to China.
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Qin Dynasty was the first unified, multi-national and power-centralized state in Chinese history
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he was the first emeperor that was chinese!
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which followed the period known as Spring and Autumn (770-476 B.C.) during the Chou (Zhou) Dynasty -- ran from about 475-221 B.C. It was a period of violence and chaos during which the philosopher Sun-Tzu is said to have lived and culture to have flourished.
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the father of Confucius was called Kung the Tall because he towered head and shoulders above everyone else in his village. Kung the Tall lived in China a very long time ago. Kung the Tall was living in China when Buddha was born in India.
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a place
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s the earliest collection of Chinese poems including 305 poems of the Zhou Dynasty (1122-256 B.C.).
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she died
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is a flat ritual upturned handbell employed by Bönpo and Asian shamans.
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A crossbow is a bow that shoots bolts. It is mounted on a stock with a mechanism to hold the bow in place when it is drawn until the shot is released when the trigger is pulled. Crossbows have been used since about 400 BC and have been used extensively in Asia, North Africa and Europe in warfare.
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The Ouija board - game, tool of the devil, instrument for divination? ... did all the development so Fuld and not Bond is known as the Father of the Ouija.
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There was one young man of humble origin named Yan Hui who wanted to be accepted as Confucius's student. But the family was so poor that they even had difficulty providing themselves with daily necessaries. He was afraid he would be rejected as he could not afford the tuition required.
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a compltion
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During the most recent ice age, from about 20,000 years ago, large mammals such as bison roam on the sub-arctic tundra of Europe and Asia. They are preyed upon by two groups of hunters, both much smaller and weaker than themselves - but both with a sufficiently developed social system to enable them to hunt and kill in packs.
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was conducted in Maling, currently Dazhangjia Town (大張家鎮), Shen County (莘县), Henan Province, in 342 BC during the Warring States Period. The combatants were the state of Qi, who fought on behalf of state of Han, and the state of Wei
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A letter written about 2,000 years ago and never delivered has provided evidence of China's oldest post office at a historic site near the famous Dunhuang Mogao Grottos along the ancient Silk Road. The letter written on a piece of silk, 18 cm long and 8 cm wide, has been found in the Xuanquanzhi Ruins in northwest China's Gansu Province.
