The Byzantines maintained relations with China. Credit: Carole Raddato, Flickr CC-BY-SA 2.0 The Byzantine Empire, which was known at the time as the Eastern Roman Empire, maintained a relatively ...

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It is regarded as China's earliest attested compendium of ... together with a digital map that visually illustrates the geographical features described in the text. Prof. Huang said, "A deep and ...

Last month, a Google form quiz created by one netizen, featuring 105 challenging multiple-choice questions all about the city’s geography ... West to East without a map. But the game has ...

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The finding was made at the Xielaozhuang (XLZ) site in the Henan province of North China. The site belonged ... in relation to the identification of ancient plant remains, explains Dr.

but maps are a product of the culture and values of the people that produce them,” Quinn, the geography professor, said. He explained that names of places have always been “fluid, contested ...

China and the Republic of Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, have formulated “a timetable and road map” for how President Xi Jinping’s US$50 billion funding commitment will go into ...

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