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  • in the Mongolian classical alphabet. In Chinese, the region is known as ... region, alternated in control between Han Chinese agriculturalists in the ...
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  • them benevolent rather than malevolent. In Chinese society, for example, the ... In the pre-Hispanic era, it was common to keep skulls as trophies ...
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  • Region (also known by its controversial name East Turkistan or Uyghurstan ... Göktürks (Kokturks, known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 ...
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  • Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Traditional Chinese: 孫中山 or 孫逸仙; Pinyin: ... Macau). When Sun Yat-sen died in 1925, the name of Xiangshan was changed to ...
    36 KB (5,408 words) - 22:52, 26 February 2023
  • The name “Rokumeikan” comes from a Chinese classic, the Shi Jing ... The name is often translated as "Deer Cry Pavilion," and ...
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  • goods from India and import of 15 from the Chinese side. The opening also shortens ... when the Tibetan government expelled the Chinese living there, most of the ...
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  • Xún Zǐ (Wade-Giles: Hsün Tzu) (Chinese: 荀子) (c.310– 237 B ... were collected into the book bearing his name. Emerging as it did in the ...
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  • as a product of ancient Rome or Arabia (Chinese: Daqin). Although documentation ... of the German scientist Georg Bauer, pen-name Georgius Agricola (1494-1555 ...
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  • to bronze, then steel during the Roman Era, to modern fabrics such as ... soon. The armor dates from the Mycenaean Era around 1400 B.C.E., some 200 ...
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  • is also distinguished by the change in the name of the country from Wa (倭 ... sculptor Kuratsukuri Tori, grandson of Chinese immigrant Shiba Tatto, is ...
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  • border, across the Taiwan Strait. The name Fujian was coined during the ... of government organization) with the same name. The two sides use different ...
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  • book was published just after the Meiji era in 1919. Intellectuals of ... and Naraka (hell). Ningen consists of two Chinese characters, nin and gen ...
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  • some inscriptions in Old Javanese, and in Chinese records. ... However, the basic outline corresponds with Chinese records that could ...
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  • to the Qing Dynasty, and the demise of the Chinese classical tradition represented ... In 1884, a group of pro-Japanese reformers overthrew the pro-Chinese ...
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  • seized the throne (the first and only Chinese Empress to rule in her own ... regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization—equal to ...
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  • – February 19, 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician and reformer ... other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core of the ...
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  • The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar ... is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for ...
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  • the period of Nestorian influence, the era of the Central Asian khanates ... The name is thought to derive from a Kyrgyz word for a churn used ...
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  • generally date back to the Tokugawa era. Chinese furniture is traditionally better known for more ornate pieces ...
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  • The Ming Dynasty Tombs (Chinese: 明朝十三陵; pinyin: Míng cháo ... at the northern foot of Purple Mountain (Chinese: 紫金山; pinyin: Zĭjīn ...
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