Ep8 The Importance of Migrants

Why We Love the Tang Dynasty by podcastcp

Nov 2, 202012:26Society & Culture

How the Tang Dynasty not only attracted people from countries far and wide to settle, but also how the dynasty drew on those countries for ideas, commodities and friendship.

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