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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and ... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...s an extensive '''traveller''' or [[exploration|explorer]], whose account documents his travels and si...
6: ...tional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the worl...
8: ... – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn Juzayy). In places the things he claims he saw or did are probab...
15: ...bron]], [[Jerusalem]], and [[Bethlehem]], for example – and the Mameluke authorities put special...
17: ... days, he then journeyed on to Mecca. There he completed the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim, and ha... - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ltiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ...ed outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes...
7: ...nese Civil War]] in [[1949]] established the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) in [[1949]] which ha...
21: ... or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
23: # The area now called the [[North China Plain]]. The ''[[Sanguo Zhi]]'' records the followin... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
1: [[Image:China_temple.jpg|thumb|300px|Temple incense near Beijing China. Image provided by [h...
3: ...ginning of its [[history of China|history]]. [[Temple]]s of many different religions dot the landscape...
5: The study of '''religion in China''' is complicated by several issues. Because many Chinese bel...
7: ... living life according to [[Taoism|Taoist]] principles and participating in [[ancestor worship]] ritua...
35: ...e ethnic groups|minority groups]] as the [[Hui people|Hui]], the [[Uyghur]]s, and the [[Kazakh]]s. The... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
900: *[[Andrea Orcagna]] ([[1320]]-[[1368]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
9: One example of the potential for confusion will suffice. The...
203: <td>[[1271]] - [[1368]]</td>
211: <td>[[1368]] - [[1644]]</td> - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
5: ...cale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with ...
12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli...
20: ...ina, the Wall was of no strategic value as the people who the Wall was intended to keep out were rulin...
22: ...er of being attacked by brigands. Because many people died while building the wall, it has obtained th...
24: ... locations the Wall is in disrepair, serving as a playground for some villages and a source of stones ... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...and [[army]] was built, with four masted ships displacing 1,500 tons and a standing army of one millio...
6: ... declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in [[1368]], establishing his capital at [[Nanjing]] and ad...
10: ...o be subordinated by the scholar bureaucracy. Simply put, maintaining a strong military was essential...
14: ...or nearly a century under the Yuan dynasty were replaced by the Han Chinese. The traditional [[Imperia...
16: ...ve body under past dynasties, after suppressing a plot for which he had blamed his chief minister. Wh... - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
1: [[Image:31-January-2004-Taipei101-Complete.jpg|right|thumb|[[Taipei 101]], the world's ta...
3: ... to describe tall buildings, but it tends to be applied specifically to residential buildings.
5: ... stories were rare. It was impractical to have people walk up so many flights of stairs, and water pre...
19: ...s the [[CN Tower]], [[TV masts]], bridges, or oil platforms.
42: |7||[[CITIC Plaza]]||[[Guangzhou]]||391 m||1,283 ft||8... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...hor and poet, the greatest of [[Petrarch]]'s disciples, an important [[Renaissance humanism|Renaissanc...
5: ...been largely depreciated as a romanticism and his place of birth is more likely to have been in [[Tusc...
7: ...hieri|Dante]]. Around 1327 Boccaccio moved to [[Naples]] when his father was appointed to head the Neo...
11: In Naples Boccaccio began what he considered his true voc...
13: ...s ''Ameto'') a mix of prose and poems in 1341, completing the fifty canto allegorical poem ''Amorosa v... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ... progressed, tools became far more refined and complex. At some point, humans had begun using [[fire]]...
7: ...mankind to [[North America]] and [[Oceania]] took place at the climax of the most recent [[Ice Age]], ...
12: ...]], and the [[Indus River|Indus Valley]]. Some peoples, such as [[Australian Aborigines|Aborigines]] o...
14: ...cities with high levels of social and economic complexity. However, these civilisations were so differ...
16: ...he [[2nd millennium BCE]] saw the emergence of complex state societies in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece... - Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
1: ...o founded the [[Mongol Empire]] ([[1206]]–[[1368]]). He is considered a national hero in modern [[...
7: ...te28/warstat0.htm#Mongol]. The exact number of people killed during and after his reign is not, and li...
15: ...Hentiy]], [[Mongolia]]. If this is true, his birthplace is most likely the mountainous area of [[Burha...
25: ...y on the part of Senggum, Wang's former heir, who planned to assassinate Tem?Tem?earnt of Senggum's in...
27: ...that the Mongols would eventually restrict the supply of goods. - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
1: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
6: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and ...
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