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Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC Years: 499 BC 498 BC 497 BC - 496 BC - 495 BC 490 BC 489 BC 488 BC 487 BC 496 BC - Events. Battle of Lake Regillus: A legendary early Roman victory, won over either the Etruscans or the Latins. King Gon Jian of Yue defeats and banishes King Fucha of Wu, gaining a temporary hegemony in ancient Chi ...

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Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC Years: 496 BC 495 BC 494 BC 493 BC 492 BC - 491 BC - 490 BC 489 BC 488 BC 487 BC 486 BC 491 BC - Events. Leotychidas II succeeds his cousin Demaratus as king of Sparta. Gelo becomes Tyrant of Gela 491 BC - Births. 491 BC - Deaths. ...

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(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) 5th century BC - Overview. The 5th and 6th centuries BC are a period of philosophical brilliance among advanced civilizations. Ancient Greek philosophy develops during the 5th century BC, setting the foundation for Western ideology. In Athens and elsewhere in the Mediterranean world, the 5th century marks a high point in the development of political institutions, art, architecture,and literature. 5th century ...

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Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC Years: 499 BC - 498 BC - 497 BC 496 BC 495 BC 494 BC 493 BC 498 BC - Events. Leontini subjugated by Hippocrates of Gela Alexander I succeeds his father Amyntas I as king of Macedonia 498 BC - Births. 498 BC - Deaths. ...

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(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) 6th century BC - Overview. The 5th and 6th centuries BC were a time of empires, but more importantly, a time of learning and philosophy. Mediterranean: Beginning of Greek philosophy, flourishes during the 5th century BC East Asia: Chinese philosophy become the "religion" of China. Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, and Moism flourish. Middle East: During the Persian empire, Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra, founded Zoroastrianism ...

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Jiangsu (Simplified: 江苏; Traditional: 江蘇; Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāngsū; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name "Jiangsu" comes from Jiang, short for the city of Jiangning (now Nanjing), and Su, for the city of Suzhou. The abbreviation for this province is 苏 (Hanyu P ...

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Centuries: 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC Decades: 620s BC - 610s BC - 600s BC - 590s BC - 580s BC - 570s BC - 560s BC - 550s BC - 540s BC - 530s BC 580s BC - Events and trends. 589 BC - Apries succeeds Psammetichus II as king of Egypt 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon begins siege of Jerusalem 587/586 BC - Jerusalem falls to the Babylonians, ending the Kingdom of Judah. The conquerors destroy the Temple of Jerusalem and exile the land's re ...

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Jupiter Mars Quirinus Vesta Juno Fortuna Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Lares The Flamens Bona Dea Carmenta Camenae Dea Dia Convector Flora Lupercus Pales Pomona Egeria Ceres, in Roman mythology, equivalent to the Greek Demeter, daughter of Saturn and Rhea, wife-sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter, sister ...

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The province of Jiangsu was formed in the 17th century. Before then, the northern and southern parts of Jiangsu had little to do with each other. South Jiangsu is currently the dominant part, being much wealthier and more influential than the north, and has been so for centuries; it is also firmly a part of southern Chinese culture. North Jiangsu, on the other hand, is at the juncture between North China and South China. Culturally it is of North China, but it has influences from South China, and is indeed still a part of a p ...

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Years are approximate Sophocles - The Theban plays. 442 BC Antigone 427 BC Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannos) 407 BC Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles - Other plays. 445 BC Ajax 413 BC The Trachiniae 410 BC Electra 410 BC Philoctetes Sophocles - Fragmentary plays. 5th century BC The Tracking Satyrs ...

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The first nobility to help the Zhou kings was the Duke Zhuang of Zheng (鄭莊公) (r. 743 BC-701 BC). He was the first to establish the hegemonical system (ba4 霸), which was intended to retain the old proto-feudal system. Traditional historians justified the new system as a means of protecting weaker civilized states and the Zhou royalty from the intruding "barbarian" tribes. Located in the south, north, east and west, t ...

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Suzhou, the cradle of Wu culture, is one of the oldest towns in the Yangtze Basin. 2500 years ago, local tribes who named themselves "Gou Wu" in the late Shang Dynasty lived in the area which would become Suzhou. In 514 BC, during the Spring and Autumn Period, King Helu (阖闾) of Wu established "Great City of Helu", the ancient name for Suzhou, as his capital. In 496 BC, Helu was buried in Huqiu (Tiger Hill). In 473 BC, Wu was defeated by Yue, another kingdom to the east that was soon annexed by Chu in 306 BC. ...

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Traditionally, the Five Overlords of Spring and Autumn Period (春秋五霸 Chun1 qiu1 Wu3 Ba4) include: Duke Huan of Qi (齊桓公) Duke Wen of Jin (晉文公) King Zhuang of Chu (楚莊王) Duke Mu of Qin (秦穆公) Duke Xiang of Song (宋襄公) While some other historians suggest that the Five Overlords include: Duke Huan of Qi (齊桓公) Duke Wen of Jin (晉文公) King Zhuang of Chu (楚莊王) King Fu Chai of Wu (吳王夫差) King ...

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Bureaucrats or Officers Guan Zhong (管仲), statesman and advisor of Duke Huan of Qi and regarded by some modern scholars as the first Legalist. Bai Li Xi (百里奚), famous prime minister of Qin. Bo Pi, the corrupted bureaucrat under King He Lu and played important diplomatic role of Wu-Yue relations. Wen Zhong and Fan Li, the two advisors and partisans of King Gou Jian of his rally against Wu.See also:

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Kunqu, the oldest extant form of Chinese opera, originals from the Suzhou region, as does the later Suzhou Opera. Ballad-singing, or Suzhou pingtan is a local form of storytelling that mixes singing (accompanied on the pipa) with portions in spoken dialect. The region is known for its silks. Locally-produced handicrafts include fans, embroidery, mahogany furniture, jade carving, and wood-block printing. ...

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After a period of increasingly exhaustive warfare, Qi, Qin, Jin and Chu finally met for a disarmament conference in 579 BC, where the other states essentially became satellites. In 546 BC, Jin and Chu agreed to yet another truce. During the relatively peaceful 6th century BC, the two coastal states in today's Zhejiang, Wu and Yue, gradually grew in power. After defeating and banishing King Fu Chai of Wu, King Gou J ...

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After the capital was sacked by western barbarian tribes, crown prince Ji Yijiu (姬宜臼) fled to the east. During the flight from the western capital to the east, the Zhou king relied on the nearby lords of Qin (秦), Zheng (鄭) and Jin (晉) for protection from barbarians and rebellious lords. He moved the Zhou capital from Zongzhou (Hao) to Chengzhou (today Luoyang) in the Yellow River valley. The fleeing Zhou elite did not have strong footholds in the eastern territories; even the crown prince's coronation had to be supported b ...

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Jiangsu has an extensive irrigation system supporting its agriculture, which is based primarily on rice and wheat, followed by maize and sorghum. Main cash crops include cotton, soybeans, peanuts, rape, sesame, ambary hemp, and tea. Other products include peppermint, spearmint, bamboo, medicinal herbs, apples, pears, peaches, loquats, ginkgo. Silkworms also form an important part of Jiangsu's agriculture, with the Lake Taihu region to the south a major base of silk production in China. Jiangsu is also an important producer of freshwat ...

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There are wide disparities in culture in Jiangsu. North Jiangsu is closer to Shandong and Henan provinces in culture while south Jiangsu is more similar to Zhejiang and Shanghai. Two main subdivisions of the Chinese language, Mandarin and Wu, are spoken in different parts of Jiangsu. Dialects of Mandarin are spoken over most of northern Jiangsu and central Jiangsu, as well as parts of southern Jiangsu, such as in the provincial capital, Nanjing; a more detailed classification would put dialects of northern Jiangsu (such as in Xuzhou) ...

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Jiangsu is divided into 13 prefecture-level divisions, all of them prefecture-level cities: Nanjing (Simplified Chinese: 南京市, Hanyu Pinyin: Nánjīng Shì) Xuzhou (徐州市 Xúzhōu Shì) Lianyungang (连云港市 Liányúngǎng Shì) Suqian (宿迁市 Sùqiān Shì) Huai'an (淮安市 Huái'ān Shì) Yancheng (盐城市 Yánchéng Shì) Yangzhou (扬州市 Yángzhōu Shì) Taizhou (泰州市 Tàizhōu Shì) Nantong (南通市 Nántōng Shì)