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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...2.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the ...
5: ...ntury|nineteenth]] and early [[20th century|twentieth centuries]], China stagnated and fell behind, an...
7: ...) government was forced to flee the mainland and retreat to Taiwan, which it had governed since the en...
18: ...overns [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and the ROC now governs [[Taiwan]] (also claim...
21: ...the capital or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition. - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: ...ion]] and its constituent components, including [[Taoism]], [[Buddhism]], and [[Chinese folk religion]].
5: ...lematic. Thus, some regard [[Confucianism]] and [[Taoism]] as religions, while others regard them as sole...
7: ...dhism|Buddhist]] while living life according to [[Taoism|Taoist]] principles and participating in [[ancest...
9: ...eligion]], [[Confucianism]], [[shamanism]], and [[Taoism]]. Most Chinese have a conception of [[heaven]] a...
11: ... be a [[deity]], but rather someone who mediated between the forces of heaven and earth. A central ide... - Asia (16910 bytes)
6: ...[[isthmus]] of [[Suez Canal|Suez]]. The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the [[Dardanelles]],...
10: ==Etymology==
12: ...g sun where the west (Europe) is the land of the setting sun.
24: ...country]] for details about the borderline cases between Asia and Europe, Asia and Africa and Asia and...
36: ...ian part of Russia, also known as [[Siberia]]. Sometimes the northern parts of other Asian nations, su... - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
10: ...ced by the Book of Songs, Confucius and Chinese Poet, Qu Yuan. Early Chinese instruments was based on...
12: ...ral well known Chinese poets influenced Chinese poetry, which included Cao Cao and his sons and Tao Qu...
14: ... Tang poetry was marked by the influence of two poets, [[Li Shangyin]] and [[Li Yu]], the latter who i...
16: ...try was marked by a lyric poetry known as [[Ci (poetry)|Ci]] which expressed feelings of desire, often...
18: ...y was marked by a poet named [[Yuan Mei]] whose poetry has been described as "unusually clear and eleg... - List of religions (13836 bytes)
50: ...eretical sects that believed [[Jesus]] was a prophet
103: **[[Shvetambara]]
124: ***[[Methodists]]
129: ***[[Society of Friends]] (Quakers)
183: **[[B? (Indigenous Tibetan belief) - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: '''Religion'''—sometimes used interchangeably with '''[[faith]]''' or ...
4: ...], a [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[Stupa|stupa]] built between [[8th century|750 and 850]]]]
9: ===Etymology===
10: ...han "connect," hence interpreting "religion" as "returning to bondage."
15: ...ery broad definition of religion, there are a variety of uses and meanings for the word "religion." S... - Meditation (26064 bytes)
12: ...etness is often desirable, and some people use repetitive activities such as deep breathing, humming o...
16: ...uditory, tactile being key) and concentrate on something other than yourself.
20: ...on aspect of meditation plays a central role in [[Taoism]], [[Sufism]], [[Sikhism]], [[Hinduism]] and [[Bu...
26: ...h [[Kabbalah]], and in some modern [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] schools.
47: ...ration by focusing on any object: [[anapana]], [[mettā bhāvanā]], being the more popula... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ...cooking]]. Humans also developed [[language]] sometime during the Paleolithic, as well as a conceptua...
7: ...te regions of today were extremely inhospitable. Yet, humans had colonized nearly all the ice-free par...
12: ...ng activities like fertilization, land clearance, etc) since 21000BC (PNAS 101 p9551-9555).
16: ...and central [[Turkey]]. In China, proto-urban societies may have developed by [[3rd millennium BC|2500...
21: ... tableware, and even the metal poor [[Inca]] had metal tipped plows, at least after the conquest of [[... - Confucius (21352 bytes)
30: ...up>'''2'''</sup> Posthumous name since [[1530]]. Between [[1307]] and [[1530]] his<br>posthumous name ...
37: ...' thoughts have been changed into a vast and complete philosophical system known in the west as [[Conf...
43: :''At fifteen, I set my mind upon learning'';
50: ... him to the growing class of ''Sh́§§ (士), between old nobility and common people, which later b...
52: ...nces with them and transmit the old wisdom via a set of books called the [[Five Classics]]. - Buddhist philosophy (14386 bytes)
2: ...problems in [[metaphysics]], [[phenomenology]], [[ethics]], and [[epistemology]].
6: ...]] alike. The Buddha criticized all concepts of metaphysical [[being]] and non-being, and this critiq...
8: ...ded the Buddha's followers even during his own lifetime, and epistemological debates over the proper m...
10: ...hers is fully consistent with Buddhist values and ethics.
16: ...orship practices (ceremonial reverence of saints, etc.), to Buddhism's thoroughly developed hierarchie... - Shinto (25829 bytes)
9: ... of gods and rituals with no formal relationship between each of the areas. Following the ascendency o...
11: ... The mythological anthologies, along with other poetry anthologies like the [[Manyoshu]] and others, w...
13: ...as necessary to explain the apparent differences between native Japanese beliefs and Buddhist teaching...
15: ...d to [[yin and yang]].) However, the attempt did set the stage for the arrival of state Shinto, follow...
17: ... convinced many that the nation needed to band together if it was going to resist being conquered by o... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...goal of alchemy is the [[transmutation]] of any metal into either [[gold]] or [[silver]].
2: ...try prior to the formulation of the [[scientific method]].
7: ==Etymology==
8: ...cient Egypt through what linguists term a "[[folk etymology]]."
13: ...t would have been as partial and incomplete as a metaphysics devoid of physical manifestation. So the ... - Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
1: ... [[Khan]] (Emperor) as well as a brilliant and sometimes brutal military leader who founded the [[Mong...
15: ...elieved to have been born with the name '''Tem?' between [[1155]] and [[1167]] in [[Hentiy aymag|Henti...
17: ...[[murder]]ed by the neighboring [[Tatars]] while returning home. This made Tem?he clan's chief, though...
19: ...ound his neck. He escaped with help from a sympathetic captor. His mother, Hoelun, taught him many les...
25: ...s's ally was Toghril, khan of the [[Kerait]] and better known by the Chinese title [[Wang Khan]] which... - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
1: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
6: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - Vegetarianism (28920 bytes)
2: ...|A selection of produce typical of a vegetarian diet.]]
4: ...gg]]s. This is more precisely called ovo-lacto vegetarianism.
6: ...world|Western]] countries as a result of [[ethics|ethical]], health, [[environmentalism|environmental]...
8: ==Varieties of vegetarianism (terminology)==
10: Different practices of vegetarianism include: - Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
3: ...ties and Ten Kingdoms]], were a time of division between north and south and of rapidly changing admin...
4: ...umb|illustration representing a person of Mongol ethnic group during Yuan ]]
5: ...ynasty (1115-1234)|Jin dynasty]]. The Song court retreated south of the [[Yangtze River]] and made the...
14: ...em meant the development of a true nationwide market system.
16: ...eveloped [[gunpowder]], the [[cannon]], the [[flamethrower]], [[printing]] technology, amongst many ot...
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