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  73. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Shaanxi Province</strong> is a mountainous region </font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">cut in two by the river basin of the Yangtze River. Great civilizations were built on the plain created by the wanderings and erosion of the river. The geography and geology of the area supported the easy growth of agriculture and animal husbandry.</font></td>
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  87. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <strong>Banpo Village</strong> is part of the Yangshao Neolithic Culture.  Somewhere between 5000 and 4000 BC people began to establish stable villages, make pottery, and develop cultural traditions.</font></td>
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  102. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>The Terracotta Warriors and Horses </strong>were one part of a vast burial city built for the first Qin emperor, Shi Huang Di (</font><font color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">始皇帝</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, 246 BC–210 BC).  </font></td>
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  117. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>The Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum </strong></font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">秦始皇兵马俑博物馆</font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">has an extensive collection of bronzes and other objects associated with the Qin era and the terracotta warriors.<br>
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  124. 													秦始皇兵马俑博物馆</a></b></font></div>
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  133. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <strong>Terracotta Factory</strong> </font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">is </font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">one of those places that tourists visit as part of any tour.  They provide a kittke education and the &quot;opportunity&quot; to hunt for souvenirs.  In this case, the chance to see the molds and examine reproductions at close quarters made the visit productive.</font></td>
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  160. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Famen Temple stands on a site that has been a Buddhist monastery since the Han Dynasty.  It has seen both support during the Sui and Tang Dynasty and destruction during years of suppression.  It is the home of the True Relics Pagoda.</font></div></td>
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  172. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Culture during the <strong>Tang Dynasty</strong><strong> </strong>advanced in all areas.  Increased leisure made possible by long peace, increased trade, and new technologies allowed time for advances in the arts and sciences.</font></div></td>
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  184. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Buddhism was introduced to China in the Han Dynasty, but it wasn't until the Tang Dynasty that it spread widely and became a dominant religion of the empire.<strong> </strong>The<strong> Big Wild Goose Pagoda </strong>was built to house the manuscripts and sutras brought from India for study and translation into Chinese.</font></div></td>
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