Thereafter, Chinese settlement was discouraged and did not achieve the commercial dominance it enjoyed on the peninsula.
The discouraged Chinese settlement was unable to achieve commercial dominance like on the peninsula.
Giza was the site of a royal burial ground from the days of the Early Empire and the desert landscape is dotted with numerous mud brick tombs and mastabas (stone tombs with flat roofs), though they are by no means as impressive as the pyramids themselves.