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The City of Light or The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo is a book purportedly made by a scholarly Jewish merchant called "Jacob d'Ancona" who wrote in vernacular Italian, an account of a trading venture he made, in which he reached China in 1271, four years before Marco Polo.
In the City of Lights, a 1999 live album by Sarah Vaughan "City of Light", a song by Theatre of Tragedy from Musique (2000) City of Light, a 2000 album by Kingdom Heirs "The City of Lights" (2005), a song by Future Pilot A.K.A., Grant McLennan and Robert Forster; The City of Light (Hilltop Hoods video), a 2007 hip-hop video album by Hilltop Hoods
Aside from many original inventions, the Chinese were also early original pioneers in the discovery of natural phenomena which can be found in the human body, the environment of the world, and the immediate Solar System. They also discovered many concepts in mathematics. The list below contains discoveries which found their origins in China.
Written symbols, sometimes called proto-writing, were found at the site of Jiahu, which is dated around 7000 BC, [12] Damaidi around 6000 BC, Dadiwan from 5800 BC to 5400 BC, [13] and Banpo dating from the 5th millennium BC.
Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (14 August 1937 – 12 April 2020) [1] [2] [3] was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus.
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The Chinese historical texts describe Roman embassies, from a land they called Daqin. 2nd century: Roman traders reach Siam (Thailand), Cambodia, Sumatra, and Java on their way to China. 161: An embassy from Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius or his successor Marcus Aurelius reaches Chinese Emperor Huan of Han at Luoyang.
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