Propaedia / The History of Mankind / Peoples and Traditional Civilizations of East, Central, South, and Southeast Asia / Inner (Central and Northeast) Asia to c. 1750 / The peoples and states of Inner Asia to c. AD 1200

The Manchurian tribes: attempts at unification, fluctuating relations with the Chinese until the advent of the Mongols

The Tung-hu tribes and Chinese presence in Manchuria to the 3rd century BC, ascendancy of the Hsien-pei and establishment of the Yin kingdom by Mu-jung Hui (AD 352), the Parhae (P'o-hai) kingdom (AD 712)
The Khitan and Juchen empires: penetration into China, Korea, and Mongolia; Juchen conquest of Chinese Sung territory; capital at Yen-ching (Peking); conquest by Mongols in 1234

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