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| ARTICLES RELATED TO 16th century BC | | | |  16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - Greek language - Writing systemModern Greek is written in the late Ionic variant of the Greek alphabet, the oldest discovered inscriptions of which date to the 8th or 9th Century BC, assumed its final form in 403 BC, and displaced other regional variants due to its use for the Attic Koine dialect during the Hellenistic era.
The Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, each with a capital and small form: Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ ς (word-final ...
See also:Greek language, Greek language - History, Greek language - Classification, Greek language - Geographic distribution, Greek language - Official status, Greek language - Phonology, Greek language - Vowel sounds, Greek language - Consonants, Greek language - Sandhi rules, Greek language - Orthography, Greek language - Historical sound changes, Greek language - Grammar, Greek language - Writing system, Greek language - Examples, Greek language - Some common words and phrases, Greek language - The Iliad in Homeric Greek Lines 1-7, Greek language - The Lord's Prayer in Greek Matt. 6:9-13, Greek language - The Nicene Creed in Greek, Greek language - Literature, Greek language - Typography, Greek language - Lexica, Greek language - Spell checkers Read more here: » Greek language: Encyclopedia II - Greek language - Writing system |
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| | | | | 16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - Henan - Administrative divisions Henan is divided into 17 prefecture-level divisions, all of them prefecture-level cities, as well as 1 directly administered county-level city.
The prefecture-level cities:
Zhengzhou (Simplified Chinese: 郑州市; Hanyu pinyin: Zhèngzhōu Shì)
Sanmenxia (三门峡市 Sānménxiá Shì)
Luoyang (洛阳市 Luòyáng Shì)
Jiaozuo (焦作市 Jiāozuò Shì)
Xinxiang (新乡市 Xīnxiāng Shì)
Hebi (鹤壁市 Hèbì Shì)
Anyang (安阳市 Ānyáng Shì)
Puyan ...
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| | | | | 16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - Chariot - Classical Antiquity
Chariot - Greece.
The classical Greeks had a (still not very effective) cavalry, and the rocky terrain of the Greek mainland was unsuited for wheeled vehicles. In spite of this, the chariot retained a high status, memories of its era were handed down in epic poetry, and they were used for races at the Olympic and Panathenaic Games.
Greek chariots were made to be drawn by two horses attached to a central pole. If two additional horses were added, they were attached on each side of the main pair by a single ...
See also:Chariot, Chariot - Early forms, Chariot - Indo-Iranians, Chariot - China, Chariot - Ancient Near East, Chariot - Egyptian, Chariot - Hittite, Chariot - Mycenaean, Chariot - Chariots in the Bible, Chariot - Iron Age Mesopotamia, Chariot - Northern Europe, Chariot - Central and Western Europe, Chariot - Classical Antiquity, Chariot - Greece, Chariot - Roman Empire, Chariot - Russian Tachanka, Chariot - Additional Bibliography Read more here: » Chariot: Encyclopedia II - Chariot - Classical Antiquity |
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| | | | | 16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - Chariot - Central and Western Europe The only Etruscan chariot found intact dates to ca. 530 BC. It is decorated with bronze plates reminiscent of the Gundestrup cauldron. Its wheels have nine spokes. it was part of a chariot burial.
The Celts were famous chariot-makers, and the English word car is believed to be derived, via Latin carrum, from Gaulish karros (English chariot itself is from 13th century French charriote, an augmentative of the same word). Some 20 Iron Age chariot burials have been excavated in Britain, dating roughly fr ...
See also:Chariot, Chariot - Early forms, Chariot - Indo-Iranians, Chariot - China, Chariot - Ancient Near East, Chariot - Egyptian, Chariot - Hittite, Chariot - Mycenaean, Chariot - Chariots in the Bible, Chariot - Iron Age Mesopotamia, Chariot - Northern Europe, Chariot - Central and Western Europe, Chariot - Classical Antiquity, Chariot - Greece, Chariot - Roman Empire, Chariot - Russian Tachanka, Chariot - Additional Bibliography Read more here: » Chariot: Encyclopedia II - Chariot - Central and Western Europe |
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| | | | | 16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - Chariot - Northern Europe The Trundholm sun chariot is dated to ca. 1400 BC (see Nordic Bronze Age). The horse drawing the solar disk runs on four wheels, and the Sun itself on two. All wheels have four spokes. The "chariot" consist solely of the solar disk, the axle, and the wheels, and it is unclear if the sun is imagined as being itself a chariot, or as riding in a chariot. The presence of a model of a horse-drawn vehicle on two spoked wheels in Northern Europe at suc ...
See also:Chariot, Chariot - Early forms, Chariot - Indo-Iranians, Chariot - China, Chariot - Ancient Near East, Chariot - Egyptian, Chariot - Hittite, Chariot - Mycenaean, Chariot - Chariots in the Bible, Chariot - Iron Age Mesopotamia, Chariot - Northern Europe, Chariot - Central and Western Europe, Chariot - Classical Antiquity, Chariot - Greece, Chariot - Roman Empire, Chariot - Russian Tachanka, Chariot - Additional Bibliography Read more here: » Chariot: Encyclopedia II - Chariot - Northern Europe |
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| | | | | 16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - Henan - Economy Henan’s total economic output is the sixth largest in China. The speed of economic development has increased by an average of about 10 percent each year for the past twenty years -- since its reform and opening to the outside. In 2003, its nominal GDP was US$ 85 billion, including 21 percent for the first industry, 48 percent for the second industry, and 31 percent for the tertiary industry. An industrial system with light textile, food, metallurgy, petrol, building materials, chemical industry, machinery and electronics as the main body h ...
See also:Henan, Henan - History, Henan - Geography, Henan - Administrative divisions, Henan - Demographics, Henan - Economy, Henan - Culture, Henan - Transportation, Henan - Tourism, Henan - Miscellaneous topics, Henan - Colleges and Universities Read more here: » Henan: Encyclopedia II - Henan - Economy |
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| | | | | 16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - Henan - Culture Most of Henan speaks dialects of Mandarin. Linguists put these dialects into the category of "Zhongyuan Mandarin". The northwestern corner of Henan is an exception, where people speak Jin dialects instead. The dialects of Henan are collectively called "the Henan dialect" in popular usage, with easily identifiable stereotypical features.
Henan opera is the local form of Chinese opera; it is also famous and popular across the rest of China. Henan Quju and Henan Yuediao are ...
See also:Henan, Henan - History, Henan - Geography, Henan - Administrative divisions, Henan - Demographics, Henan - Economy, Henan - Culture, Henan - Transportation, Henan - Tourism, Henan - Miscellaneous topics, Henan - Colleges and Universities Read more here: » Henan: Encyclopedia II - Henan - Culture |
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| | | | | 16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - Greek language - Grammar Ancient Greek, like all of the older Indo-European languages, was highly inflected. For example nouns (including proper nouns) have five cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and vocative), three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), and three numbers (singular, dual and plural). Verbs have four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive and optative), three voices (active, middle and passive), as well as three persons (first, second and third) and various other forms. Verbs are conjugated in four main tenses (present, aorist, ...
See also:Greek language, Greek language - History, Greek language - Classification, Greek language - Geographic distribution, Greek language - Official status, Greek language - Phonology, Greek language - Vowel sounds, Greek language - Consonants, Greek language - Sandhi rules, Greek language - Orthography, Greek language - Historical sound changes, Greek language - Grammar, Greek language - Writing system, Greek language - Examples, Greek language - Some common words and phrases, Greek language - The Iliad in Homeric Greek Lines 1-7, Greek language - The Lord's Prayer in Greek Matt. 6:9-13, Greek language - The Nicene Creed in Greek, Greek language - Literature, Greek language - Typography, Greek language - Lexica, Greek language - Spell checkers Read more here: » Greek language: Encyclopedia II - Greek language - Grammar |
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| | | | | 16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - Henan - Transportation Two important railway arteries, the Jingguang Railway (Beijing - Guangzhou) and the Longhai Railway (Lianyungang - Lanzhou), pass through Henan and cross at Zhengzhou, the provincial capital. The Jingjiu Railway (Beijing - Kowloon) also passes through Henan.
With the recent completion of the Zhengzhou - Xinxiang expressway, a continuous expressway now crosses Henan from north to south, as part of a longer line linking Beijing with Shenzhen. Another expressway crosses Henan from east to west, and more are being built.
Important airports ...
See also:Henan, Henan - History, Henan - Geography, Henan - Administrative divisions, Henan - Demographics, Henan - Economy, Henan - Culture, Henan - Transportation, Henan - Tourism, Henan - Miscellaneous topics, Henan - Colleges and Universities Read more here: » Henan: Encyclopedia II - Henan - Transportation |
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| | | | | 16th century BC: Encyclopedia II - History of literature - The Medieval Period After the fall of Rome (in roughly 476), many of the literary approaches and styles invented by the Greeks and Romans fell out of favor in Europe. In the millennium or so that intervened between Rome's fall and the Florentine Renaissance, medieval literature focused more and more on faith and faith-related matters, in part because the works written by the Greeks had not been preserved in Europe, and therefore there were few models of classical literature to learn from and move beyond. What little there was became changed and distorted, with ...
See also:History of literature, History of literature - The beginnings of literature, History of literature - Early Indian literature, History of literature - Early Chinese literature, History of literature - The Greeks and the Romans, History of literature - The Greeks, History of literature - The Romans, History of literature - Persian literature, History of literature - The Medieval Period, History of literature - Later Chinese literature, History of literature - European Renaissance Literature, History of literature - The early modern period, History of literature - European literature in the 18th century, History of literature - The 19th century and onwards Read more here: » History of literature: Encyclopedia II - History of literature - The Medieval Period |
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