Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major ...

Some dynasties made major reforms to how things worked. The Manchus were a people from Manchuria, in the north-east of modern China. They spoke a language called Manchu, which is related to other ...

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Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major political ... the most powerful Chinese imperial dynasties.