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  2. Paraíba - Wikipedia

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    Paraíba (/ ˌ p ær ə ˈ iː b ə / PARR-ə-EE-bə, Brazilian Portuguese: [paɾaˈibɐ] ⓘ; Tupí: pa'ra a'íba) is a state of Brazil.It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

  3. Prehistoric Chinese religions - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric Chinese religions are religious beliefs and practices of prehistoric peoples in China prior to the earliest intelligible writings in the region (c. 1250 BCE). They most prominently comprise spiritual traditions of Neolithic and early Bronze Age cultures in various regions of China, which preceded the ancient religions documented by ...

  4. History of Paraíba - Wikipedia

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    The history of Paraíba began before the discovery of Brazil, when the coastline of the state's current territory was populated by the Tabajara and Potiguara indigenous peoples. When the Portuguese arrived, the region was established as part of the Captaincy of Itamaracá .

  5. Captaincy of Paraíba - Wikipedia

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    The original territory of Paraíba was larger than the current one: It extended to the Tordesilhas longitude, where today the state of Tocantins is located. In the period of the Treaty of Tordesillas, the Captaincy of Paraíba was, longitudinally, the most extensive geopolitical unit in Portuguese America, a title previously belonging to Itamaracá, which Paraíba was initially part of.

  6. Dynasties of China - Wikipedia

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    For most of its history, China was organized into various dynastic states under the rule of hereditary monarchs.Beginning with the establishment of dynastic rule by Yu the Great c. 2070 BC, [1] and ending with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor in AD 1912, Chinese historiography came to organize itself around the succession of monarchical dynasties.

  7. Sinosphere - Wikipedia

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    In late classical history, the literary importance of classical Chinese diminished as Japan, Korea, and Vietnam each adopted their own writing systems. Japan developed the katakana and hiragana scripts, Korea created hangul , and Vietnam developed chữ Nôm (now rarely used in lieu of the modern Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet ).

  8. Names of China - Wikipedia

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    For example, the late Qing textbook "Chinese History of the Present Dynasty" published in 1910 stated that "the history of our present dynasty is part of the history of China, that is, the most recent history in its whole history. China was founded as a country 5,000 years ago and has the longest history in the world. And its culture is the ...

  9. Five thousand years of Chinese civilization - Wikipedia

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    In his book Sinicæ Historiæ Decas Prima, he covered a wide range of Chinese subjects and was the first person to put forward the concept of five thousand years of Chinese history. [5] By the late Qing dynasty, the concept of "5,000 years of Chinese culture" had been officially recognized and promoted by the Qing government. For example, the ...