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... India , enabling the texts of the new religion to be translated . He extended his empire over Nepal , western Tibet , the T'u - yü - hun , and other tribes on China's border ; and he invaded north India . In 670 , 20 years after Srong ...
... India , enabling the texts of the new religion to be translated . He extended his empire over Nepal , western Tibet , the T'u - yü - hun , and other tribes on China's border ; and he invaded north India . In 670 , 20 years after Srong ...
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... India , built a college in Goa for training priests , began a prospering mission in Japan , and died off the coast of China while hoping to enter that land . By 1600 there were about 300,000 Christians in Japan . Christianity was ...
... India , built a college in Goa for training priests , began a prospering mission in Japan , and died off the coast of China while hoping to enter that land . By 1600 there were about 300,000 Christians in Japan . Christianity was ...
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... India ; they left a wealth of gold and copper coins with legends in the Bactrian language , written in cursive Greek letters . Their coin types - of king on obverse and deity on reverse - became the general style of northern Indian ...
... India ; they left a wealth of gold and copper coins with legends in the Bactrian language , written in cursive Greek letters . Their coin types - of king on obverse and deity on reverse - became the general style of northern Indian ...
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CHINA | 36 |
CHINESE LITERATURE | 231 |
CHORDATES CHRISTIANITY | 251 |
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