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... sumer goods to Szechwan and the interior provinces . Transportation . Since 1949 bicycles , buses , and motor- bikes have replaced chairs on bamboo poles and rickshas as the principal means of transport in Chungking . Cable tramways ...
... sumer goods to Szechwan and the interior provinces . Transportation . Since 1949 bicycles , buses , and motor- bikes have replaced chairs on bamboo poles and rickshas as the principal means of transport in Chungking . Cable tramways ...
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... Sumerian coast at Ur and in the Indus Valley at Mohenjo - daro during the 3rd millennium and , before 2000 BC , had also appeared in the Nile and Wei- ho valleys . Cities proliferated along overland trade routes from Turkestan to the ...
... Sumerian coast at Ur and in the Indus Valley at Mohenjo - daro during the 3rd millennium and , before 2000 BC , had also appeared in the Nile and Wei- ho valleys . Cities proliferated along overland trade routes from Turkestan to the ...
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... Sumerian , Babylonian , As- syrian , and Hittite - had no coined money . The use of coins reached Persia from the Lydian kingdom of Croesus and the Persian satrapies of Asia Minor . The first ruler of the Achaemenid dynasty to strike ...
... Sumerian , Babylonian , As- syrian , and Hittite - had no coined money . The use of coins reached Persia from the Lydian kingdom of Croesus and the Persian satrapies of Asia Minor . The first ruler of the Achaemenid dynasty to strike ...
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