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Encyclopedia - 496 Bc: Encyclopedia - 496 Bc
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 491 Bc: Encyclopedia - 491 Bc
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 5th Century Bc: Encyclopedia - 5th Century Bc
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) 5th century BC - Overview. The 5th and 6th centuries BC are a period of philo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 498 Bc: Encyclopedia - 498 Bc
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 6th Century Bc: Encyclopedia - 6th Century Bc
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) 6th century BC - Overview. The 5th and 6th centuries BC were a time of empires,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jiangsu: Encyclopedia - Jiangsu
Jiangsu (Simplified: 江苏; Traditional: 江蘇; Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāngsū; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 580s Bc: Encyclopedia - 580s Bc
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ceres Mythology: Encyclopedia - Ceres Mythology
Jupiter Mars Quirinus Vesta Juno Fortuna Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Lares The Flamens Bona Dea Carmenta Camenae Dea Dia C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jiangsu: Encyclopedia Ii - Jiangsu - History
The province of Jiangsu was formed in the 17th century. Before then, the northern and southern parts of Jiangsu had little to do with eac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sophocles: Encyclopedia Ii - Sophocles - Surviving Works
Years are approximate Sophocles - The Theban plays. 442 BC Antigone 427 BC Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannos) 407 BC O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spring And Autumn Period: Encyclopedia Ii - Spring And Autumn Period - Rise Of The Hegemons
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Suzhou: Encyclopedia Ii - Suzhou - History
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spring And Autumn Period: Encyclopedia Ii - Spring And Autumn Period - List Of Overlords Or Ba
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) Duk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spring And Autumn Period: Encyclopedia Ii - Spring And Autumn Period - List Of Important Figures
Bureaucrats or Officers Guan Zhong (管仲), statesman and advisor of Duke Huan of Qi and regarded by some modern scholars as the first ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Suzhou: Encyclopedia Ii - Suzhou - Culture
Kunqu, the oldest extant form of Chinese opera, originals from the Suzhou region, as does the later Suzhou Opera. Ballad-singing, or Suzh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spring And Autumn Period: Encyclopedia Ii - Spring And Autumn Period - Changing Tempo Of War
After a period of increasingly exhaustive warfare, Qi, Qin, Jin and Chu finally met for a disarmament conference in 579 BC, where the oth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spring And Autumn Period: Encyclopedia Ii - Spring And Autumn Period - The Autumn Period
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jiangsu: Encyclopedia Ii - Jiangsu - Economy
Jiangsu has an extensive irrigation system supporting its agriculture, which is based primarily on rice and wheat, followed by maize and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jiangsu: Encyclopedia Ii - Jiangsu - Culture
There are wide disparities in culture in Jiangsu. North Jiangsu is closer to Shandong and Henan provinces in culture while south Jiangsu ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jiangsu: Encyclopedia Ii - Jiangsu - Administrative Divisions
Jiangsu is divided into 13 prefecture-level divisions, all of them prefecture-level cities: Nanjing (Simplified Chinese: 南京市, Hany...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jiangsu: Encyclopedia Ii - Jiangsu - Geography
Jiangsu is very flat and low-lying, with plains covering 68 percent of its total area (water covers another 18 percent), and most of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jiangsu: Encyclopedia Ii - Jiangsu - Demographics
The majority of Jiangsu residents are ethnic Han Chinese. Other minorities include the Hui and the Manchus. Demographic indicators in 200...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spring And Autumn Period: Encyclopedia Ii - Spring And Autumn Period - Interstate Relations
See main article: Interstate relations during the Spring and Autumn period. During the period a complex system of interstate relations de...   » Read the article