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the day Wu Zetian , China's only female Emperor , was overthrown in 705 CE, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were killed and their heads were hung at an entrance to the capital ?
two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both called Historical Atlas of China ?
the Battle of Zhuolu , fought in the 26th century BC and the second recorded battle in Chinese history , is often considered a pivotal moment in the establishment of the Han Chinese civilization?
the 14th century Chinese military treatise of the Huo Long Jing edited by Jiao Yu described the use of cast iron grenades , firearms , fire lance flamethrowers , cannons , land mines , naval mines , rocket launchers , and winged rockets ?
Miyazaki Ichisada was known for adding a fourth phase to periodisation of the history of China and Japan ?
Tang Chinese scholar Yao Silian was the lead author of the official histories of both Liang and Chen Dynasties ?
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Question 1 : Perhaps the most famous specimen of Homo erectus found in China is the so-called ________ discovered in 1923-27.
Question 2 : When was the History of China?
Question 4 : Meanwhile, in what are now the northwestern Chinese provinces of ________ , Shaanxi , and Ningxia , there emerged a Western Xia Dynasty from 1032 up to 1227, established by Tangut tribes.
Question 5 : It was the first dynasty to embrace the philosophy of ________ , which became the ideological underpinning of all regimes until the end of imperial China.
Question 6 : In 303 the Di people rebelled and later captured Chengdu , establishing the state of ________ .
Question 7 : Emperor Guangwu reinstated the Han Dynasty with the support of land-holding and merchant families at ________ , east of Xi'an .
Question 8 : Over the next half-century, the Qing consolidated control of some areas originally under the Ming , including ________ .
Question 9 : The emperor Xizong fled to ________ and Huang established a new temporary regime, which was eventually destroyed by Tang forces, but another time of political chaos followed.
Question 10 : [ 20] The 14th century epidemics of plague (________ ) is estimated to have killed 30% of the population of China.