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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 21st century BC
		Category: 21st century BC Shennong (Traditional: and#31070;and#36786;; Simplified: and#31070;and#20892;; Pinyin: Shen2 nong2) is a legendary emperor and culture hero of Chinese mythology who is believed to have lived some 5,000 years ago and who taught the ancient peoples of the practices of agriculture.
		Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century and#8212; 19th century and#8212; 20th century and#8212; more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.
		About 2200 bc it was known as the site of a temple, and during the 21st century BC it was subject to the nearby city of Ur.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/21st_century_BC (4206 words)

	Church in the 21st Century - Boston College
		A program and events Calendar for The Church in the 21st Century Center.
		Agape Latte welcomes BC philosophy professor Brian Braman to speak on “The Intellectual Life as Friendship with God.” Spark your intellect and deepen your friendships – all in one evening.
		Patricia DeLeeuw, Vice Provost for Faculties, shares the story of her own life experience and career at BC with graduate and professional students in the continuing conversation series Veritas et Vinum.
	www.bc.edu /church21 (290 words)

	Informed Comment
		But even though the 21st century allows the US to deploy enormous air craft carriers and to light up targets with a laser so that smart bombs can take them out, it is not a century that guarantees that Cheney will get his way in Iraq.
		It is the century that followed on wave after wave of decolonization, during which the French were shown not to be able to stay in Algeria, the British were kicked out of the Indian subcontinent, and the Dutch had to relinquish Indonesia.
		Richard Bruce's notion of a '21st Century' is one that depends more on 19th Century constructs that consist of a population that can be conscripted and mobilised in Napoleonic fashion to fight battles in conflicts and wars at the whim of the govermental leadership.
	www.juancole.com /2007/04/dick-cheney-and-two-21st-centuries-vice.html (3550 words)

	21st century BC Information
		2137 BC - The Bulgarians defeated the Chinese during an eclipse north of China.
		2049 BC — Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
		2000 BC — Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy.
	www.bookrags.com /21st_century_BC (210 words)

	21st Century Energy Environment In
		The approach is designed to present an intellectually rich 21st century energy environment in and interesting text that is also practical.This is accomplished by introducing basic concepts in the context of energy technologies and, where appropriate, in historical context.
		The selection of topics is designed to provide the reader with an introduction to the language, concepts 21st century energy environment in and techniques used in all major energy components that are expected to contribute to the 21st century energy mix.
		Future energy professionals will need to understand the origin 21st century energy environment in and interactions of these energy components to thrive in an energy industry that is evolving from an industry dominated by fossil fuels to an industry working with many energy sources.
	was44.thezillieu.com /21stcenturyenergyenvironmentin.html (1453 words)

	Calendars Babylian, Assyrians, Hittites - Crystalinks
		In the 18th century BC, the Babylonian Empire standardized the year by adopting the lunar calendar of the Sumerian sacred city of Nippur.
		When, in the 17th century BC, the dating by regnal years became usual, the period between the accession day and the next Nisanu 1 was described as "the beginning of the kingship of PN," and the regnal years were counted from this Nisanu 1.
		Later, the empires centralized the intercalation, and as late as 541 BC it was proclaimed by royal fiat.
	www.crystalinks.com /calendarbabylon.html (1039 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		century BC in China according to legend.Later Taixue and Guozijian serve as the highest level of educational etablishment while academies became very popular as non-governmental etablishments teaching Confucianism and Chinese literature among other things.
		The School, founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove of Academos near Athens, taught its students philosophy, mathematics, and gymnastics, and is sometimes considered to resemble a university.
		Until the 19th century, religion played a significant role in university curriculum; however, the role of religion in research universities decreased in the 19th century, and by the end of the 19th century, the German university model had spread around the world.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=universities (2730 words)

	Babylon (ancient city) - MSN Encarta
		Babylon was the capital of Babylonia in the 2nd and 1st millennia bc.
		From the late 8th century bc until the Assyrians were expelled by Nabopolassar, between 626 and 615 BC, the city was part of the Assyrian Empire.
		When the new capital of Seleucia on the Tigris was founded in the early 3rd century BC, however, most of Babylon’s population was moved there.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560431/Babylon_(ancient_city).html (736 words)

	Han Chinese Clothing
		Hanfu was eliminated by Manchu invaders by force in the 17th century, and is largely unknown in China today, except among a small but vocal group of people advocating the revival of Hanfu as a Chinese national costume.
		Many traditional costumes of Asian countries, such as the kimono in Japan and Korean traditional dress, are derived from Hanfu and have the same style as Hanfu.
		21st century BC - 16th century BC) all the way to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
	www.centurychina.com /plaboard/posts/3691203.shtml (590 words)

	China History - Business Investment Holiday Partnership Travel Tourism Information
		Centuries of migration, amalgamation, and development brought about a distinctive system of writing, philosophy, art, and political organization that came to be recognizable as Chinese civilization.
		Chinese history, until the twentieth century, was written mostly by members of the ruling scholar-official class and was meant to provide the ruler with precedents to guide or justify his policies.
		For centuries virtually all the foreigners that Chinese rulers saw came from the less developed societies along their land borders.
	www.chinaeguide.com /china/china_info/history.htm (1219 words)

	Archaeological Museum of Naxos (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BC) periods are represented by characteristic examples of pottery and terracotta figurines.
		Early Cycladic pyxis of marble and schist from the cemetery at Aplomata (2800-2300 BC).
		Mycenaean strainer hydria (jug) from the chamber tomb cemetery at Kamini decorated with a scene of circular dance (12th century BC).
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21121m/e211um13.html (695 words)

	21st century BC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		21st century BC 22nd century BC - 21st century BC - 20th century BC - other centuries) (4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC)
		the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 to 2000, or (informally) 1900 to 1999.
		The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-21st_century_BC.html (882 words)

	The 21st Century and the Third Millennium (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is illustrated by the adoption of the birth of Christ as the initial epoch of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
		This epoch was established by the 6th century scholar Dionysius Exiguus who was compiling a table of dates of Easter.
		In the 16th century Joseph Justus Scaliger tried to resolve the patchwork of historical eras by placing everything on a single system.
	aa.usno.navy.mil /faq/docs/millennium.html (723 words)

	[History] > Aleph Tav: The Key to the Kingdoms
		Century BC with the call of Abraham (Aleph KeyWord Avraham) and ends with Tav in the First Century AD when Christ was crucified, the Temple was destroyed, and the Jewish Age was consummated.
		Century BC (Aleph) prophetically anticipated the Cross (Tav) of Jesus Christ when Abraham the Father of the Faith (Aleph KeyWords Abraham, Av and Emunah) sacrificed his only beloved son Isaac.
		This view was strongly opposed by Augsustine in the fifth century who correctly saw it as the antithesis of the Christian revelation of progress from Genesis through to the final judgment and consummation in Revelation.
	www.biblewheel.com /History/KingdomKey.asp (3948 words)

	Eclipse Lit
		As early as 1500 BC, inscribed turtle shells and oxen bones were found with references to an eclipse.
		In the Shih ching, a Chinese classic poem from the 8th century BC, references are once again made to this fateful phenomena, and the royal astronomers Hsi and Ho are blamed for neglecting their duties in predicting this puzzling event.
		Cicero reported that the poet Quintus Ennius remarked, "On the nones of June the Sun was covered by the Moon and night." Ennius's reference is to the total solar eclipse of June 21, 400 BC, which occurred in Rome a few minutes after sunset.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/eclipse-lit1.html (655 words)

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		An abundance of artifacts are found including imported Greek painted pottery and new types of pottery for the storage or transportation of cereals, oil and honey as well as the fermentation and storage of wine.
		The great mercantile city of Corinth was the leader in pottery manufacturing during the 7th century BC.
		Most of the exhibits in the museum are from Ancient Thera, the town dating from the 8th Century BC on the headland of Mesa Vouno.
	www.lycos.com /info/8th-century-bc--miscellaneous.html (469 words)

	Chinese food history and culture page 2
		Their success can be attributed to the superiority of their ideographic written language, their technology, and their political institutions; the refinement of their artistic and intellectual creativity; and the sheer weight of their numbers.
		The process of assimilation continued over the centuries through conquest and colonization until what is now known as China Proper was brought under unified rule.
		In 771 B.C. the Zhou court was sacked, and its king was killed by invading barbarians who were allied with rebel lords.
	asiarecipe.com /chihistory2.html (1847 words)

	22nd century BC at AllExperts
		* 2217 - 2193 BC -- Nomadic invasions of Akkad.
		* 2138 BC -- Babylon: A solar eclipse on 9 May and a lunar eclipse on 24 May occurred and are believed to be the double eclipse that took place 23 years after the ascension of king Shulgi of Babylon by those holding to the long chronology.
		* 2124 BC - Gudea, the ruler (ensi) of the city of Lagash, died.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/22nd_century_BC.htm (264 words)

	Advanced Qigong Practice program
		Throughout the whole process, from the polytheism of the primitive society and the worship of the supreme God during the Three Dynasties of Xia (c.
		21st century BC - C. 16th century BC), Shang (c.
		In China's Primitive society, owing to the exceedingly low productivity, people used to worship almost everything that was directly concerned 'with man's daily life as well as the natural phenomena which were closely related to the interests of human beings, and regarded such things as some substances which have personality and will.
	www.damo-qigong.net /taoism/origin/origin1.htm (3594 words)

	Learn more about 21st century BC in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Learn more about 21st century BC in the online encyclopedia.
		21st century BC 22nd century BC - 21st century BC - 20th century BC - other centuries)
		2049 BC - Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /2/21/21st_century_bc.html (221 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > 20th century BC
		(21st century BC - 20th century BC - 19th century BC - other centuries)
		(3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC)
		1950 BC -- The copper bar cubit of Nippur defines the Sumerian cubit as 51.72 cm
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/20/20th_century_BC (105 words)

	Environmentalism for the 21st Century
		As we begin the 21st century, environmental thinkers are divided along a sharp fault line.
		I didn’t realize what a blessed childhood I'd had, playing on the tidal flats by the salmon spawning streams in the rainforest, until I was shipped away to boarding school in Vancouver at age fourteen.
		I eventually attended the University of BC studying the life sciences: biology, forestry, genetics; but it was when I discovered ecology that I realized that through science I could gain an insight into the mystery of the rainforest I had known as a child.
	www.greenspirit.com /21st_century.cfm (355 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Martyl and the Precinct of Mut (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From about 2050 BC, the beginning of the Middle Kingdom, to the early years of the Christian period, Amon, later called Amon-Ra, was established as the foremost god of Thebes.
		With its main temples rising from the lake, the precinct was the setting for elaborate cult rituals celebrating the birth of Mut's divine child and the return of the eye of Ra to Egypt, serving to appease and control the goddess.
		The museum is using its discoveries, which range in date from the 15th century BC to the fifth century of this era, to increase knowledge of Karnak and Thebes and of Egyptian civilization in general.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198805/martyl.and.the.precinct.of.mut.htm (2244 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 26th century BC
		established at the end of the 12th century and is integral to editorial practice...
		Cursive form of Hieroglyphic used in writing Egyptian from the 26th century BC.
		Replaced by Demotic, for ordinary purposes, from the 7th century BC, but retained for religious texts; hence the name (‘priestly’).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=26th+century+BC (810 words)

	21st century BC - Definition, explanation
		2130 - 2080 BC -- Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt
		2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt
		2049 BC - Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/2/21/21st_century_bc.php (182 words)

	27th century BC - Information from Reference.com
		There are no dictionary entries for 27th century BC, but 27th, century, BC are spelled correctly.
		26th century BC in architecture and the architecture timeline.
		2900 BC–2334 BC — Mesopotamian ᏓᏄᏩ ᎯᎠ ᎢᎬᏱ ᏓᎳᏏᏛ ᎠᎴᏫᏍᏙᏗ.
	dictionary.reference.com /search?q=27th%20century%20BC (281 words)

	21st Century Art, CE - BC, Jan Haag
		The oldest preserved (in Altai ice) knotted carpet, the Pazyryk Carpet, dates from fourth or third century B.C. In the oldest city planned on the grid system, Moenjodaro (mound of the dead) ca.
		Peruvians -- perhaps the greatest fabric artist ever known -- wove gauzy shrouds 200 inches wide and, for the living, embroidered cloth in esoteric designs awe-inspiring in their implications.
		21st CENTURY ART, C.E.- B.C., A Context was founded by Jan Haag under the auspices of the Open Studios Project of the
	www.janhaag.com /OSDefault.htm (775 words)

	Millennium Special: Dragon's Chronicle: Road of Chinese Civilization
		China's second millennium began in the 21st century BC with the founding of the Xia Dynasty, the country's first dynasty, which had cultivated the most splendid civilization at that time, known as the bronze culture.
		In this way, a magnificent spatio-temporal view was built: In the eighth century, China was the only country in the world able to map a 4,000 kilometer long meridian, or to send a team to observe the stars within 20 degrees of the south celestial pole, according to Joseph Needham, famous British scientist and historian.
		China's fifth millennium began in the 11th century with famous reform aimed at re-building the strong country.
	english.people.com.cn /english/200012/26/eng20001226_58865.html (1018 words)

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