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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1943 
  

  

  disorders 
  in 
  northern 
  China. 
  Also, 
  the 
  great 
  Han 
  emporer 
  Wu 
  Ti 
  

   (see 
  fig. 
  20), 
  late 
  in 
  the 
  second 
  century 
  B. 
  C, 
  established 
  a 
  Chinese 
  

   colony 
  in 
  northern 
  Korea 
  which 
  survived 
  for 
  several 
  hundred 
  years 
  ; 
  

   while 
  an 
  independent 
  kingdom 
  with 
  a 
  civilization 
  of 
  Bronze 
  Age 
  

   type 
  arose 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  or 
  perhaps 
  a 
  little 
  later 
  in 
  the 
  south- 
  

   eastern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  peninsula. 
  Both 
  colony 
  and 
  kingdom 
  became 
  im- 
  

  

  Sca/e: 
  600 
  Feet 
  

   Figube 
  20. 
  — 
  Plan 
  and 
  elevation 
  of 
  grave 
  mound 
  of 
  Han 
  Wu 
  Ti. 
  

  

  portant 
  secondary 
  centers 
  from 
  which 
  civilizing 
  influences 
  spread 
  over 
  

   much 
  of 
  eastern 
  Asia. 
  

  

  Japan. 
  — 
  Toward 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  Chou 
  period 
  again, 
  a 
  stream 
  of 
  cul- 
  

   tural 
  influences 
  from 
  around 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Yantze 
  River 
  reached 
  

   Kyushu, 
  in 
  western 
  Japan. 
  In 
  that 
  country 
  it 
  encountered 
  other 
  

   streams 
  from 
  Korea 
  and 
  even 
  from 
  southern 
  Manchuria, 
  and 
  inter- 
  

   mingled 
  with 
  them 
  to 
  form 
  the 
  historical 
  Japanese 
  civilization. 
  The 
  

  

  