Beltway Bistros: Part I, China's History from china humiliation Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 31 min 98 sec ✓ Published: 28-Oct-2010
Description: This program looks at 5,000 years of Chinese history from the early days until President Nixon visited China in 1972 and Mao Zedong reopened it to the West. nnChina gave the world gunpowder, movable type, toilet paper, the stirrup, paper currency, the wheel barrow, and many other items. Its steel crafting in 500BC was at least 1,500 years ahead of the west. nnChina's mariners in the 14th century may have discovered north and south America 70 years or more before Columbus sailed. By the late Ming
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