History of Kaohsiung

Interactive reading is a special technique of memorizing information based on interval repetition.
Dates of important events are missing in the text, and you will need to add them.
If you specify a right date - you move forward, and if you're wrong - start over.
This is a very effective way of learning of new material (as opposed to usual reading).
In such a manner you'll actually remember what you read!

The written history of Kaohsiung can be traced back to the early 17th century, though archeological studies have found signs of human activity in the region from as long as 7000 years ago. Prior to the 17th century, the region was inhabited by the Makatau clan of the Siraya aboriginal tribe, who settled on what they named Ta-kau Isle Chen Di referred to a Ta-kau Isle: Various later historical documents of both the Ming and Qing Dynasties referred to Kaohsiung as either "Ta-kau" or "Ta-ku" was not adopted until the Japanese colonial period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....