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China
China is a country in East Asia, home to one of the world's oldest continuous civilisations, unified under successive dynasties including the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing. Its silk, porcelain and other goods drew trade across the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean, linking it to empires from Rome and Persia to Srivijaya. Steppe powers such as the Xiongnu, Göktürks and Mongols alternately raided, extracted tribute from and conquered it.
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