China's Earliest Imperial Dynasty

Yu Mingren reports on the early Chinese emperors Yao and Shun, who governed from the city of < href="https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/erlitou-0016300" target="_blank">Zhenxun long before the founding of the Roman Republic in Italy. These Chinese emperors created huge public works projects to fight massive flooding in the Yellow River valley, initating four millenia of national flood control efforts.

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