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    China Great Wall

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    A structure that stretches as far as China's northern wall and becomes the world's greatest defense walls. When you look at the tower, it looks like a long, thin river. Po Hay Sea is located here in the Gulf and the last Gobi continues westward from the south of the desert. The foundations of this structure were first laid by the Vhu Kingdom in the 7th century BC in the province of Henan, but the first set is not very long.In later periods, the attacks of Hun, Tungus and Mongols started to…

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    then were forced to take an ancient caravan route through present day Iraq, Iran, and Turkmenistan. They passed through many great cities and saw many sites including the holy city of Jerusalem, the mountains of the Hindu Kush, Persia, and the Gobi Desert. On the way he met a lot of different types of people and had many adventures. In the spring of 1275, they finally reached Shangdu, the summer residence of Kublai Khan. The route they took became known as The Silk Road. Marco lived in China…

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    One of the most famous fossils ever found was a velociraptor in the middle of a fight with a protoceratops. The first fossil of the velociraptor that was ever found was in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. It was discovered in 1922. Over the years the velociraptor has been portrayed as being the size of a man, but in reality it was only about the size of a turkey. “A member of the Dromaeosauridae family of small- to medium-sized birdlike…

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    China is made up of mostly all of Asia. China has mountains, oceans, deserts, and bays. They have many different features that sometimes make is hard to do things and other times easy. Some places are the Gobi Desert, Bay of Bengal, Red Sea, Sea of Japan, and the Himalayas. China had a plan in 221 B.C that was supposed to keep out the attackers from the north. Chinas plan was to build a huge and long wall. They built this wall because they did not have any natural barrier that was protecting…

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    China Open Boarders Essay

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    China is located in the continent Asia.Some physical feature are Gobi and Taklimakan deserts, body's of water, plateau of Tibet, and the Himalaya mountains. China built the great wall to stop invaders. Cause there was only one spot they could attack from. Cause the rest was either surrounded by water or the mountain. So they built the wall. Then the only problem was that they could only trade from the water. How were top Government officials chosen a test. Different ways top Government…

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    Xuoanzang's Journey

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    He traveled by land, heading west on the Silk Road across Central Asia before turning south to India. All told, he would cover more than 10,000 miles on his remarkable journey.Xuanzang encountered many dangers along the way. He got lost in the Gobi Desert and nearly died of thirst. Snow and freezing conditions in the Tian Shan Mountains killed many members of his party.Bandits attacked and robbed him. But he also met with great kindness and hospitality. His writings about the people and places…

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    for this monastery till they got their chance to leave. This escape plan was anything but a sure fire way of getting to South Korea because it involved them crossing the Gobi desert to get to the Mongolian boarder. So they went out with another family to cross the desert and get to the Mongolia boarder. They needed to cross the desert at night during freezing temperatures. Yeonmi and the others were told to dress lightly and were risking hypothermia. They also got lost easily because they would…

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    Shi Huangdi Achievements

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    B.C and then the Qin dynasty started to die out fifteen years after he died. Lu Bang was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty and became emperor in 202 B.C. The Han Dynasty lasted 400 years and there civil service system based on Confiams The Gobi desert was dangerous because where it was located and because people would rob you when you would travel on the silk road. Also there was a river called the Yellow River because of the soil which was called loess. Some of China’s rivers would…

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    Tang China Essay

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    Most people would want to go to Europe or to Africa; however, the true beauty in the world is China. In this special edition on China, you would see the perspective on China in the eyes of a trader. As a girl, I endured many endless journeys of trading knowledge and messages to scholars and government officials, but one of my most memorable journeys was to China. China was known as a beautiful and majestic empire, ranging from exotic flowers to great emperors.The Chinese invented many…

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    The impact of the Silk Road upon European and Asian civilizations was immense. Resulting in cultural diffusion on a massive scale the Silk Road provided a conduit for the migration of foreign ideals, philosophies, and religions. Along with this wealth of information came the silk and spice trades, the founding products that led to the original creation and prosperity of the Silk Road. Together these two basic principles of wealth and a lust for knowledge drove the forces that changed European…

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