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Gongsun Xuanyuan (Youxiong) (The Yellow Emperor)

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Lineage	Gongsun
Sex	Male
Full name (at birth)	Gongsun Xuanyuan (Youxiong)
Other last names	The Yellow Emperor
Parents ♂ Shaodian [Gongsun] b. -2679 ♀ Youjiao [?]
Wiki-page	wikipedia:Yellow_Emperor

Events

birth: Shou Qiu, Shandong, Modern: Qufu, Shandong, China

child birth: ♂ Gongsun Changyi (Father of Zhuanxu) [Gongsun]

child birth: ♂ Shaohao [Tao Tang Dynasty]

between -2696 and -2598 title: Emperor of China

Notes

Tales of the Yellow Emperor preserve an account of his journey across the East Sea where he met an entity called "Bai Ze" who taught him the names of all things. This is interesting in light of a contemporary civilization on the west coast of South American in Peru called the Caral-Supe civilization (also called the Norte Chico Civilization) who also used the Quipu.

[edit] Sources

↑ Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji 史記, c. 100 BC), Chapter 1, "Wudi benji" 五帝本紀 ("Basic Annals of the Five Emperors"); iFeng.com (retrieved on 2010-08-22). (Chinese) - he Chinese historian Sima Qian – and much Chinese historiography following him – considered the Yellow Emperor to be a more historical figure than earlier legendary figures such as Fu Xi, Nüwa, and the Yan emperor.
↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norte_Chico_civilization -
↑ Eurekalert.org, "Oldest evidence of city life in the Americas reported in Science, early urban planners emerge as power players" Public release date: 26-Apr-2001 American Association for the Advancement of Science - Civilization flourished between 3200BCE - 1800 BCE with most 2500-2000 BCE being the period of greatest expansion. Haas, Jonathan; Winifred Creamer; Alvaro Ruiz (23 December 2004). "Dating the Late Archaic occupation of the Norte Chico region in Peru". Nature 432 (7020): 1020–1023. doi:10.1038/nature03146. PMID 15616561.
↑ http://archaeology.about.com/od/ancientwriting/a/caralquipu.htm - The oldest known quipu was discovered at Caral, predating all of these societies, made about 4,600 years ago. This is a period contemporaneous with the accounts of the Yellow Emperor. This artifact could prove the existence of ancient contact and cultural interchange between the civilizations. Did the Yellow Emperor introduce the concept of the Quipu to the New World even as he worked to abandon its use in China?