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 | | The Xia Dynasty ((additional info and facts about Hanyu Pinyin) Hanyu Pinyin: Xia, (additional info and facts about Wade-Giles) Wade-Giles: Hsia, (Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system) Chinese: 夏朝), ca. |
 | | At a minimum, the Xia period marked an evolutionary stage between the late (Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere)) neolithic cultures and the typical Chinese urban civilization of the Shang dynasty. |
 | | Xia Dynasty resumed hereditary monarchy from the legendary (additional info and facts about Yellow Emperor) Yellow Emperor times, and began the period of a family or a clan controlling everything in the nation (家天下). |
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