A new study suggests that the northern section of the Great Wall of China wasn't actually built to as a defense against ...

The Liao dynasty (907–1125) of China and its successor, the Western Liao (1124–1211), were founded by the Khitan, a proto-Mongol people who were originally nomadic pastoralists ... though a few tribes ...

Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east ... which were constantly battling nomadic tribes. So the emperor’s officials press-ganged an estimated million workers, mostly farmers, into ...

In the early 11th century, the Tuoba group of the ancient nomadic Dangxiangqiang tribe originally living in the mountainous area of China ’s western plateaus gradually grew strong and set up the ...

In 1790, as the Altai region became part of the Chinese Empire, the biys of the Kerey tribe dispatched Kogedai to the Manchu ...

This silted base, the edge of the North China Plain, was built up over time ... Communities in the present day "Beijing Gulf" traded with the nomadic tribes who lived out beyond Gubeikou in ...

During this time, China expanded its influence into neighboring ... Originating from a group of nomadic tribes in Central Asia, it eventually expanded at its peak to span from Central Asia to ...