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Tao Qian, or Tao Yuan Ming, was an early Taoist poet who greatly influenced the great Tang poets. Tao lived in the tumultuous Eastern Chin dynasty, after the fall of the great Han and before the reunification under the Sui. Having much hard luck in his attempts at life as an official, Tao gave up on society's Confucian ideals and retired at the age of 41 to Jiangsu province near Lu Mountain.

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The first mention of the Kingdom of Champa date back to 192 AD in Chinese scriptures, where it appears under the name Lin-Yi. It is probably at that time that the 'Kingdom' was founded, in the region of today's Hue, it seems as a result of the revolt of a local official against Chinese authority. One wants to be careful when using the term of 'Kingdom' or 'State' when talking about Champa. The

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The 26 letter Roman alphabet is a distant but direct descendant of the complex ornate script of ancient Egypt. Scholars believe that this script inspired the development of the world's first alphabetic scripts, Phoenician and Aramaic, from which the Greek and Roman alphabets derive. Earlier still, it is thought that the idea of writing spread from Egypt to the Aegean, in particular influencing

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In the meantime Cronos by a cunning device of Ge or Metis was made to bring up the children he had swallowed, and first of all the stone, which was afterwards set up by Zeus at Delphi. The young god now delivered the Cyclopes from the bonds with which they had been fettered by Cronos, and they in their gratitude provided him with thunder and lightning. On the advice of Ge. Zeus also liberated the

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Pandora was the very first woman who was formed out of clay by the gods. The Titan Prometheus had originally been assigned with the task of creating man. But because he was displeased with their lot, stole fire from heaven. Zeus was angered, and commanded Hephaistos and the other gods to create a woman, Pandora, and endow her with the beauty and cunning. He then delivered her to Epimetheus, the

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In the last weeks of 327 BCE, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great invaded the valley of the river Kabul, and in the next months, he conquered Taxila, defeated the Indian king Porus at the river Hydaspes, and reached the eastern border of the Punjab. He wanted to continue to the kingdom of Magadha in the Lower Ganges valley, but his soldiers refused to go any further, and Alexander was forced

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Located in the northern part of the city, northeast of El Castillo is the Temple of Warriors. Like El Castillo, the Temple of Warriors was constructed over an older temple. Today there are three thick tiers stacked on top of a thinner stone base with a temple on top. There are some 200 squared columns at the base of the temple's main stairway. Each side of each column has a carved depiction of a

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A long, white limestone road or sacbe, extends north from the base of the north staircase of the great pyramid, El Castillo. The road passes the Temple of Venus and continues for a thousand feet to a large, limestone sinkhole the Maya call "cenote." This is El Cenote Sagrado, the Sacred Well, found at the northernmost point of the Chichen Itza archaeological zone. This large cenote was likely a

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Persian king (486 – 465 BC) of the Achaemenian dynasty. The son of Darius I, he had been governor of Babylon before his succession. He ferociously suppressed rebellions in Egypt and Babylonia. To avenge Darius's defeat by the Greeks at the Battle of Marathon, he spent three years raising a massive army and navy. When a storm destroyed the bridges he had built to cross the Hellespont, he had them

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From the age of seven, Spartan boys no longer lived at home, but were brought up by the state. Training was often harsh, but effective, and each youth learned unwavering and absolute devotion to his country and his folk. Aside from combat training, they learned to swim, run, jump, wrestle and box, and, above all, to dance. For in Greece, rhythmical movement was considered good training, not for

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Wu Ding was a Shang Dynasty King of China. King Wu Ding of Shang of China, in chinese:"武丁", born Zi Zhao, in chinese:"子昭", ruled around 1200 BC-1181 BC, 22nd ruler of the Shang Dynasty. His is the first historic name in the history of Chinese dynasties. He is recorded in shell and bone inscriptions or oracle bone inscriptions in chinese:"子昭".His is the first historic name in the history of

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Her father was the king of the Silla kingdom, which had emerged in the south about 250 and 350 AD, and by the end of the 7th century would manage to unify the whole peninsula. Having no sons, he chose as his heir his daughter Sondok, which was no great surprise for a number of reasons. One was that women in this period had a certain degree of influence already as advisers, queen dowagers, and

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Zenobia (or Xenobia) is the name commonly used for the daughter of Zabaai ben Selim. The widow of Septimius Odenathus, she reigned as Queen of Palmyra from 267 to 272 as regent for her infant son Vaballathus. Something of a militant, she embarked on a campaign of conquests that eventually saw her as the ruler of much of Syria and Asia Minor. By playing off Persia to the east against Rome to the

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Himiko was the female ruler of an early pre-Japan political region known as Yamatai which was believed to have existed either in the Yamato region or northern Kyushu of modern-day Japan. Her territory was observed by the Chinese as having no oxen, horses, tigers, leopards, sheep or magpies, and it was noted that Himiko’s countrymen tattooed their faces. Himiko never married though she is recorded

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The HunsMongolia before Mongolians proper was inhabited by various nations since the ancient times. The earliest known governmental entity in what is nowadays Mongolia is the Xiongnu, or Hun state. Historians still argue whether the Huns were a proto-Mongolian tribe, or a proto-Turkic ethnic group. Nevertheless, the Huns formed a highly elaborate state in Central Asia led by a monarch called “

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Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khan for the mongols) was originally born as Temujin in 1167. He showed early promise as a leader and a fighter. By 1206, an assembly of Mongolian chieftains proclaimed him Genghis Khan. Which eant Universal or invincible prince. This was a bold move for the assembly. They obviously saw some leadership qualities in Genghis that others didn¹t. When Genghis Khan was little,

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Kublai Khan (1215-1294) was a Mongolian leader who made an impact on China, not only through conquest, but also by ruling successfully. Many of the rulers before him were brutally land-hungry and apathetic to the conquered people; however, Kublai challenged the stereotypes of Mongolian rulers by investing in his newly acquired people and providing the foundations of a grand empire. Unfortunately,

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Marcus Ulpius Trajanus was born on 18 September at Italica near Seville, most likely in the year AD 52. His Spanish origin made him the first emperor not to come from Italy. Although he was from an old Umbrian family from Tuder in northern Italy which had chosen to settle in Spain. So his family was not a purely provincial one. His father, also called Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, was the first of the

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The best known Dacian king were Dromihetes, Burebista and Decebalus who organized powerful states and proved to be skilful military strategists. The Dacian king reigned with the help of a council of noblemen and with the advice of the high priest. Dromihetes is known due to his conflict around 300 BC with Lisimah, a general of Alexander the Great who became king of Thrace after Alexander's death

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The causes of the Messenian wars were two incidents, as Pausanias tells us, although there is no doubt that the real reason was the rich and fertile plains of Messenia, that Spartans wanted to conquer. The first incident occurred in the borders of Laconia and Messene, where there was a temple of Artemis Limnatis, in which both Spartans and Messenians were celebrating. In the midst of the dance

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Sparta was the ruling city of the area of Laconia in the southern Peloponnese. It lay in the valley of the river Eurotas. Of the people in the towns and villages which she controlled, some were free, known as perioikoi or neighbors, although they were inferior in status to the Spartans themselves. Others, because they were felt to be a greater threat, were kept in a state of slavery as publicly

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Most artistic and cultural achievement came about during the Classic period 300 - 900 AD. The Mayans developed a complex, hierarchical society divided into classes and professions. Centralized governments, headed by a king, ruled territories with clearly defined boundaries. These borders changed as the various states lost and gained control over territory. Mayan centers flourished in Mexico,

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The Scythians were members of a nomadic people originally of iIranian stock who migrated from central asia to southern Russia in the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Centered on what is now the Crimea, the Scythians founded a rich, powerful empire that survived for several centuries before succumbing to the Sarmatians during the 4th century BC to the 2nd century AD. Much of what is known of the history

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The Late Predynastic Period, (also called Gerzean period or Naqada II) is known as the most important predynastic culture in Egypt. Although the center of the development was the same as that of Amratian (or Naqada I), Gerzean culture slowly spread throughout Egypt. The Late Predynastic Period is best characterized by the discovery of the el-Gerza Culture providing a third predynastic phase and

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In 416BC, the physician Ctesias set out from his native town of Cnidus to attend the Persian King Darius II. There he stayed for eighteen years, and learned of many wonderful things during his time at court. Upon returning to Cnidus, he wote a book of his experiences which he called the Indica. In it is the earliest surviving written account of a Unicorn:"There are in India certain wild asses

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