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Yangtze civilization
Various ancient Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures in China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yangtze civilization (simplified Chinese: 长江文明; traditional Chinese: 長江文明) is a generic name for various ancient Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures from the Yangtze basin of China, the representative civilization of the Chinese alongside the Yellow River civilization.
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