HIS385H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sinocentrism, Iron Age, Eurocentrism
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O neolithic period (5,000 bce 1,500 bce). These prints were also found in areas of north vietnam and southern china which lead people to believe that they had a way of interacting with one another: bronze age (1,500 bce 220 bce). Weapons indicated that people are living apart and conflict may be a part of life. There were casting moulds used to produce the bronze tools and weapons, they shaped the melted metal. There were rock carvings from dynasties of other regions which also indicated that people living in hk area were in contact with people further away: iron age (221 bce unified china). Southern sea outpost for s. china and n. vietnam. Han dynasty + reunification: there was military expansion and the south was re-conquered and chinese rule returned. One of china"s great dynasties as it tried to regain some of the old territories in order to become an empire.
