For millennia the proto-Chinese Sinitic cultures of the Yellow River basin, centered on the Central (or "North China") Plain, evolved in a very different direction from those of the Yangtze basin and lands to the farther south. Because scholars of the former monopolized the written record, East Asian history has long adopted their viewpoint, which has discounted the importance of those southern cultures, which were dismissed as "barbaric."
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