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[[underlined]] APPENDIX II. [[/underlined]] 27.
Bay, in the present Shantung province. [[superscript]] (70) [[/superscript]]  Be this as it may, before the middle of the 4th century B.C. we find it back in the south again, in what had and been the territory of Wu. After various vicissitudes, in 334 B.C. Yueh ventured to attach Ch'u, and was totally overthrown. The northern part of her dominions, once comprised in Wu, was annexed outright by Ch'u, and the rest--the old Yueh proper---was made tributary. A little over a century later it was incorporated, together with its conqueror, in the already vast dominions of Ch'in.   
Yüeh's power was essentially that of a thalassocracy, maintained by
fleets of great sea-going canoes.[[strikethrough]] (71) [[/strikethrough]]
These were able to penetrate most parts of the coastal region through the mouths and lower courses of rivers, some of them no longer in existence. The state collapsed for lack of an organized national life on a large scale when it provoked the might of Ch'u, then mistress of the greater part of the Yangtze basin.

[[underlined]] Wu and Yüeh compared. [[/underlined]]

Wu and Yüeh, though such bitter enemies, were close neighbors, speaking the same language and possessing fundamentally similar types of culture. [[superscript]] (72) [[/superscript]] Though Yüeh appears to have been the less advanced of the two, both
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(70) Some have doubted this removal of her capital by Yüeh; but see the [[underlined]] Chu shu chi nien [[/underlined]] ("Bamboo Books"), under the 1st year of King Chên Ting 貞定王 (467 B.C.).
Kiaochow Bay is a fine sheet of water, possessing excellent harborage; and the selection of a site on its shores for her capital would have been quite in keeping with the maritime character of Yüeh.
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[[strikethrough]] (71) These were almost certainly propelled by means of paddles alone; see pp. 21 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]] and note 57 (page 22), of this Appendix. [[/strikethrough]]
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(72) This culture has been best exemplified in recent and modern times by various peoples inhabiting the great island groups off the southeastern coasts of Asia, and to a somewhat smaller extent (doubtless because of their inland character) by the Naga tribes of Assam.
On surviving traces of this ancient "Yüeh" culture in China itself, see Eberhard, "Early Chinese Cultures", in the [[underlined]] Simthsonian Ann. Rep. [[/underlined]] for 1937 (publ. 1938), pp. 513-530; see esp. 520-523.
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