Changan, China

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This city whose name means Perpetual Peace functioned not only as the capital city of ancient China for ten dynasties but during the peak of the Chinese civilization, the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907), it became the most populous and cosmopolitan city in the entire world. As the terminal point for the fabled Silk Road, it was…to continue