Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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China has always been absolutely segregated from outside influences by the great barrier of mountains which surround it on almost every side, and by the sea also, as its ships were not adapted to voyages of any great length. Its tribes show a curious combination of unity and variety. All have practically the same habits and customs, yet a native of one province is regarded as a foreigner by the inhabitants of another. After 690 B.C. China was gradually conquered by the Tartars, yet its civilization survived, so that within a few hundred years little trace of the Tartar...