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 | | From time to time, under emperors who pursued a "forward policy" in Central Asia (the Han emperors, the early Tang emperors and some of the abler Qing rulers), China extended its tentacles westward as far as Kashgar and even into what is now northern Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. |
 | | The tomb, like all 9 Han tombs north and west of Xian, is a huge earth mound almost the size of an Egyptian pyramid, surrounded by smaller mounds for sons and wives and prime ministers. |
 | | It was the Chinese need for bigger, faster horses that was one motivation for the Han emperors to open trade with the Ferghana and Ili valleys in Central Asia; their enemies, the Huns, always had an advantage over the Chinese because of their superior horses. |
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