HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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Achieving enlightenment ends the cycle of suffering
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Traded along the Silk Road
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Detailed explanation-1: -The geography of China isolated it from other cultures because there were the Himalayan Mountains, the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau, the Taklimakan Desert, and the Gobi Desert. Cold climates also kept invaders out.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Chinese were in relative isolation from the rest of the world for centuries. In fact, because they believed they were in the middle of the world, surrounded by natural barriers on all sides, the Chinese thought of themselves as “Zhong Guo”-the Middle Kingdom.
Detailed explanation-3: -Papermaking, printing, gunpowder and the compass-the four great inventions of ancient China-are significant contributions of the Chinese nation to world civilization.
Detailed explanation-4: -Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism were the three main philosophies and religions of ancient China, which have individually and collectively influenced ancient and modern Chinese society.