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228 Part III: South Asia Guru Nanak was followed by a sequence of 10 gurus, all members of his family and Khatri caste (much as ...

Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 229 Sikhs instantly identifiable ever since: “Five K’s”—kesh (uncut hair), kangra (a wooden br ...

230 Part III: South Asia storing their weapons. The raid, with loss of life on both sides, was seen as a desecration of the holi ...

Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 231 for the fact that some Scheduled Caste Sikhs are beginning to separate them- selves into l ...

232 Part III: South Asia Metcalf, Barbara D. 2009. Introduction: A historical Overview of Islam in South Asia. In Islam in South ...

233 Par t IV East Asia 7CHINA 8JAPAN 9KOREA ...

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235 East Asian Civilization By the Early Holocene (9600–6200 B.C.E.), over 35 human settlements are documented by archaeologists ...

236 Part IV: East Asia administrative institutions (Barnes 2015). This “East Asian civilization” now includes two billion people ...

Part IV: East Asia 237 ancient Koguryo Korean or Chinese? It depends on who you ask. Koguryo was one of three ancient Korean kin ...

238 Part IV: East Asia American and Asian Values Compared In this deeply embedded philosophy, it is the group rather than the in ...

239 7 CHINA ...

CHRONOLOGY OF CHINESE HISTORY 4500 B.C.E. 1700 1100 221 206 B.C.E. C.E. 268 386 581 618 906 960 1200 1368 1644 1912 1949 Neolith ...

241 he state is shattered; mountains and rivers remain.” These poetic words, written 1,200 years ago, express both a sense of th ...

242 Part IV: East Asian Civilization A cultural unity among the Han Chinese is already apparent in Neolithic archaeological site ...

Box 7.1 Romanization of Chinese In this volume, as in most news outlets, periodicals, and other non-Chinese-lan- guage publicati ...

244 Part IV: East Asian Civilization Chinese themselves, the people who had texts and thus civilization, who could record their ...

Chapter 7 China 245 always also the state’s coercive fist. This is wu, which means force or military order. Confucius may have p ...

246 Part IV: East Asian Civilization The Grand Historian wrote of the three earliest Chinese dynasties: Xia, Shang, and Zhou. Hi ...

Figure 7.1 Anyang site map. This cemetery, excavated in the 1930s, con- tained 10 large tombs of Shang dynasty kings. Figure 7.1 ...