World History Asian Timeline

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in China. Christianity was a major influence in the Mongol Empire, as several Mongol tribes were primarily Nestorian Christian, and many of the wives of Genghis Khan's descendants were strongly Christian.

5) Qing government-also known as the Manchu Dynasty, was the last ruling dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912. I t was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China. he Dynasty was founded not by the Han who form the majority of the Chinese population, but the Manchus, who are today an ethnic minority of China.

6) Astronomy in China- Chinese were the most persistent and accurate observers of celestial phenomena anywhere in the world before the Arabs. Chinese astronomy was equatorial, centered as it was on close observation of circumpolar stars, and was based on different principles from those prevailing in traditional Western astronomy, where heliacal risings and settings of zodiac constellations formed the basic ecliptic framework

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