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Which goods were exchanged near Koko Nor during the Tang period?
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Yellow River (Huang He), eastern Qinghai province, China.
During the Tang period (618–907), traders met near Koko Nor to exchange locally bred horses for Chinese tea. This exchange occurred despite the region's complex political history, which included periods of control by the Lhasa dynasty.1