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China is a land of superlatives, biggest, most, earliest, first, and more.

For all the exciting events and people in Chinese history, the story of China isn't nearly as well known as it should be.

Chris is making sure people in the English-speaking world understand the importance and really how awesome Chinese history is in world

history. I host a podcast about the history of the Popes of Rome and Christian Church

called A2Z History Presents the History of the Papacy.

I can imagine you are wondering what the connection between Chinese history and Christian Church

history is.

Not too much, huh?

Well think again, there is a ton of exciting connections.

The Silk Road was the ancient world's version of a super highway that not only carried exotic goods back and forth across the Eurasian landmass,

it also transported ideas from one end of the world to the other.

One of those ideas was a form of Christianity that didn't quite gain much

traction in the West but spread from the Middle East to China.

Nestorian Christianity would rapidly spread along the Silk Road and in a fairly short time

there would be Nestorian Christian cathedrals in China itself.

If you'd like to learn more about the history of the popes of Rome and Christian church

and how that connects to many interesting and unusual aspects of history, you can learn more by visiting the website a two z history page

dot com. Thank you for your time and enjoy the history of China. Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Hello and welcome to the history of China. Episode 66, Cold Case File.

Last time, we traced the Northern Way Dynasty through the latter half of the 5th century, culminating in them changing their language, dress, capital city, and even surnames in an officially mandated effort to become the most Chineseest of them all.

We concluded with the lead proponent of the sinusization process, Wei's Emperor Chiawan, dying from an illness in the year 499 at the age of 31 or 32.

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