By the 280s, a huge number (approximately 400,000) of Xiongnu herdsmen resided in the Ordos Desert and the Bing province, a political division including modern-day areas of the whole Shanxi province, southwestern part of Inner Mongolia and eastern part of Shaanxi province, after Cao Cao moved them there and split them into "five departments" (五部, pinyin Wǔbù) These Xiongnu seemed to substantially chang ...

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Han Zhao, Han Zhao - The Condition of the Xiongnu in Northern China and their uprising, Han Zhao - Rulers of the Han Zhao

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The Gobi (Mongolian Говь, Chinese 戈壁; pinyin gē bì) is a large desert region in northern China and southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altay Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast. The word Gobi means "desert" in Mongolian. The Gobi is made up of several distinct ecological and geographic regio ...

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The Gobi (Mongolian Говь, Chinese 戈壁; pinyin gē bì) is a large desert region in northern China and southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altay Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast. The word Gobi means "desert" in Mongolian. The Gobi is made up of several distinct ecological and geographic regio ...

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The Huang He listen ▶ (help·info) (Chinese: 黃河; Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Hé; Wade-Giles: Hwang-ho; literally Yellow River) is, at 5,463 km, the second longest river in China, after the Yangtze or Chang Jiang. The headwaters of the Huang He lie in the Kunlun Mountains in north-western Qinghai province, where the river originates at an elevatio ...

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (IPA: /pjɛʀ tejaʀ də ʃaʀdɛ̃/; May 1, 1881 – April 10, 1955), a Jesuit priest trained as a palaeontologist and a philosopher, was present at the discovery of Peking Man. Teilhard de Chardin popularized such ideas as the Omega Point and the Noosphere. In setting forth this sweeping account of the unfolding of the material cosmos, he abandoned the literal interpretation of the two different accounts of creation in the Book of Genesis, in fav ...

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Évariste Régis Huc, or Abbé Huc, (August 1, 1813 - March 31, 1860) was a French missionary-traveller, famous for his travel accounts in Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet, et la Chine pendant les années 1844—1846. He was born in Toulouse. When Évariste was twenty-four, he entered the congregation of the Lazarists at Paris, and shortly after receiving holy orders in 1839, went out to China. At Macau he spent some eighteen months in the Lazarist seminary, preparing himself for the regula ...

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The Gobi, broadly defined, can be divided into five distinct dry ecoregions. The Eastern Gobi desert steppe is the easternmost of the Gobi ecoregions, covering an area of 281,800 square kilometers (108,800 square miles). It extends from the Inner Mongolian Plateau in China northward into Mongolia. It includes the Yin Mountains and many low-lying areas with salt pans and small ponds. It is bounded by the Mongolian-Manchurian grassland to the north, the Yellow River Plain to the southeast, and the ...

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Gobi Desert, Gobi Desert - Geography and the area, Gobi Desert - Climate as of 1911, Gobi Desert - Conservation ecology economy, Gobi Desert - Ecoregions of the Gobi, Gobi Desert - Eastern Gobi desert steppe, Gobi Desert - Ala Shan Plateau semi-desert, Gobi Desert - Junggar Basin semi-desert, Gobi Desert - Desert of Kum-tagh, Gobi Desert - Desert of Hami and the Pe-shan Mountains, Gobi Desert - Sands of the Gobi Deserts, Gobi Desert - European exploration up to 1911, Gobi Desert - The Gobi Desert in popular culture

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The Huang He is notable for the amount of silt it carries, 1.6 billion tons where it emerges from the Loess Plateau. If the river is running to the sea with sufficient volume, 1.4 billion tons are carried to the sea. In modern times, since 1972 when it first went dry, the river has gone dry in its lower reaches, from Jinan to the sea, in most years, in 1997 for 226 days. The low volume of the river is due to increased demands on the river for use in irrigation which has increased by a factor of five since 1950. Water diverted from the river ...

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The Gobi, broadly defined, can be divided into five distinct desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions. The Eastern Gobi desert steppe is the easternmost of the Gobi ecoregions, covering an area of 281,800 square kilometers (108,800 square miles). It extends from the Inner Mongolian Plateau in China northward into Mongolia. It includes the Yin Mountains and many low-lying areas with salt pans and small ponds. It is bounded by the Mongolian-Manchurian grassland to the north, the Yellow River Plain to the southeast, and the ...

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Gobi Desert, Gobi Desert - Geography and the area, Gobi Desert - Climate as of 1911, Gobi Desert - Conservation ecology economy, Gobi Desert - Ecoregions of the Gobi, Gobi Desert - Eastern Gobi desert steppe, Gobi Desert - Ala Shan Plateau semi-desert, Gobi Desert - Junggar Basin semi-desert, Gobi Desert - Desert of Kum-tagh, Gobi Desert - Desert of Hami and the Pe-shan Mountains, Gobi Desert - Sands of the Gobi Deserts, Gobi Desert - European exploration up to 1911, Gobi Desert - The Gobi Desert in popular culture

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The Huang He is notable for the amount of silt it carries, 1.6 billion tons where it emerges from the Loess Plateau. If the river is running to the sea with sufficient volume, 1.4 billion tons are carried to the sea. In modern times, since 1972 when it first went dry, the river has gone dry in its lower reaches, from Jinan to the sea, in most years, in 1997 for 226 days. The low volume of the river is due to increased demands on the river for use in irrigation which has increased by a factor of five since 1950. Water diverted from the river ...

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Early years. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born in Orcines, close to Clermont-Ferrand, in France. He was the fourth child of a large family. His father, an amateur naturalist, collected stones, insects and plants, and promoted the observation of nature in the household. Teilhard's spirituality was awakened by his mother. When he was 11, he went to the Jesuit college of Mongré, in Villefranche-sur-Saône, until completing baccalaureates of philosophy and mathematics. Then, in 1899, he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Aix-en-Provence begi ...

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When the Eastern Han Dynasty slowly brought the Northern Xiongnu into submission in the 1st century by military and diplomatic measures, hordes of herdsmen and the Southern Xiongnu, originally subdued by the Northern Xiongnu, began trading without having heavy tribute imposed on them. Horses and animal products were traded mainly for agricultural tools, such as the harrow and the plough, and clothing of which silk was the most popular. Those herdsmen helped the Han dynasty defend against any remaining Xiongnu in return. The more they ...

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Yuanxi (元熙 yuán xī) 304-308 Yongfeng (永鳳 yǒng fèng) 308-309 Guangxing (光興 guāng xīng) 310-311 Jiaping (嘉平 jiā pīng) 311-315 Jianyuan (建元 jiàn yuán) 315-316 Linjia (麟嘉 lín jiā) 316-318 Note: Liu Xi was Liu Yao's crown prince who was thrusted into the leadership role when Liu Yao was captured by Later Zhao's em ...

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Wu Hu means "five nomadic groups", hence giving it another name, the Five Hu. Wu Hu were composed of five nomadic tribes: Xiōngnú (匈奴, sometimes identified with the Huns), Xiānbēi (鮮卑), Dī (氐), Qiāng (羌), and Jié (羯) although different groups of historians and historiographers have their own definitions. The above composition of Wu Hu is the most accepted since those five tribes were the major ones. The term Wu Hu was first ...

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As the Eastern Han Dynasty slowly disintegrated into an era of "warlords", battles for predominance eventually ushered in the Three Kingdoms. However years of war had generated a severe shortage of labor, a solution to which was the encouragement of immigration of Wu Hu herdsmen. Thus the Wei court, controlling Northern China at the time, reluctantly yielded areas already occupied to the Wu Hu and sometimes colonized war-uninhabited areas with some weaker tribes of herdsmen. Several large-scale forced relocations of Di to area of southwestern S ...

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A era of relative prosperity had existed since Jin Wudi unified China in 280: Wu hu tribes residing inside and in the vicinity of China regularly paid taxes to the Jin's court. They traded horses and animal products for agricultural goods and silk. Mecenaries could always be called upon request. Powerful chieftains cannot match the diplomatic measures of the Chinese bureaucracy. The scenario resembled that of Eastern Han Dynasty with one exception: the underlying internal weakness of the dynasty provided the Wu Hu with the inva ...

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The accession of Emperor Hui in 290 marked the beginning of the crumbling of the Jin Dynasty. Possilby retarded at birth, he was merely a puppet of powerful parties which sought to control the Jin court. During the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, all parties in power attempted to wiped out the former rulers by murder, disloyalty, mass executions or battles. Each struggle grew more violent and bloodier than the one before. Not surprisingly, Wu Hu mecenaries were often called upon. Wu Hu chieftains and herdsmen clearly comprehended the selfishne ...

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