History of China
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The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow and Yangtze river basins, evolving into one of the world's oldest cradles of
Traditional reconstruction of the Peking Man skull
Restoration of the skull Shaanxi History Museum
LL-1 partials skull
10,000-year-old pottery, Xianren Cave culture (18,000–7000 BC)
Xia dynasty
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The Xia dynasty is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography. According to tradition, it was established by the likely legendary figure Yu the Great, after Shun, the last of the Five Emp
History of China
…bears similarities to how China, both contemporaneously and later, has been divided into states that were not one region, legally or culturally. The Xia dynasty (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC) is the earliest of the three dynasties described in much later traditional historiography, which includes the Bamboo Annals and…
Han dynasty stone relief rendering of Yu the Great
The geography of the Nine Provinces according to traditional analysis of literary sources before modern archaeological discoveries, which show them to have been greatly inflated
Erlitou jue vessel