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Thanks! I guess I didn't notice that. —Khoikhoi 07:52, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Guss2. A map has to be put on Wikipedia Commons for it to be usable on all Wikipedias. I just did this. Regards. PHG 22:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
I see that it's not (yet) in the Will Cuppy article; but the chapter on Alexander in The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody spoofs the whole Alexander-as-an-apostle-of-world-peace to the top of its bent. Septentrionalis 17:20, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Guss2. Thank you for your note on the problems surrounding the articles on Daxia (Ta-Hsia) and Bactria. you brought up a nmber of very important but rather thorny issues. I have just written a reply which I have posted on the Ta-Hsia Talk Page [1]. Please don't hesitate to contact me again if you disagree with any of them or just want to discuss something further.
All best wishes,
John Hill 03:53, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Guss2, thank you for your note and your help with the Yuanmou Man article. I am by no means an expert, so I cannot answer your question. It is my understanding that the two major theories of human origin - Recent single-origin hypothesis and Multiregional hypothesis - are both being debated as viable alternative propositions, while Polygenism appears to be a historical concept. It appears to me then that the so-called Asian hypothesis, if I understand it correctly, is a revived polygenetic theory? In any case I am looking forward to your article when translated into English (sorry, my Dutch is too limited). Ekem 19:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
The legend reads "area of the Dong-i/Dongyi ethnicity" and "sphere of influence of Gojoseon/Gao Chaoxian". I thought you could guess what it meant because you wrote several articles on Chinese history. --Nanshu 02:24, 3 December 2006 (UTC).
You ought to add evidence of Eiorgiomugini's problematic behaviour to the ongoing RfC. We may need it later. --Ghirla-трёп- 14:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Guss,
You recently added a reference to this article, but references should only indicate the sources used to write the article. Were you about to add information, or did you actually need a "See also" section instead? --Bowlhover (talk) 16:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Joseph Needham wrote in 1954 that many scholars doubted that Sima's Records of the Grand Historian had contained accurate information about such distant history, including the thirty kings of the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1050 BC). Many scholars argued that Sima couldn't possibly have had access to written materials which detailed history a millennium before his age. However, the discovery of oracle bones at an excavation of the Shang Dynasty capital at Anyang (Yinxu) matched twenty-three of the thirty Shang kings that Sima listed. Needham writes that this remarkable archaeological find proves that Sima Qian "did have fairly reliable materials at his disposal—a fact which underlines once more the deep historical-mindedness of the Chinese."[1]
this is actually what it says in the xia article- n her work, The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art and Cosmos in Early China, Sarah Allan noted that many aspects of the Xia are simply the opposite of traits held to be emblematic of the Shang. Classical Chinese historians such as Sima Qian had access to records going only as far back as the Shang Dynasty[6]. The implied dualism between the Shang and Xia, Allan argues, is that while the Shang represent fire or the sun, birds and the east, the Xia represent the west and water. The development of this mythical Xia, Allan argues, is a necessary act on the part of the Zhou Dynasty, who justify their conquest of the Shang by noting that the Shang had supplanted the Xia.
the whole paragraph implies that both the shang and the xia dynasties were actually fake and didnt exist, so sima qian made up stories about them. but even now archeology is being done on suspected xia dynasty sites from the pre shang period. the paragraph implies everything is fake about xia and shang.162.84.167.109 (talk) 20:57, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
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