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Topic: Imperial Treasury


  
  History of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was the first dynasty to embrace the philosophy of Confucianism, which became the ideological underpinning of all regimes until the end of imperial China.
The Qing imperial treasury was declared bankrupt twice arising from indemnities incurred in the Opium wars and the large outflow of silver due to the opium trade (in tens of billions of ounces).
Yuan's imperial ambitions were fiercely opposed by his subordinates, and faced with the prospect of rebellion, Yuan abdicated and died shortly after in 1916, leaving a power vacuum in China.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_China   (6018 words)

  
 Summary and Evaluation of China, Korea & Japan to 1875 by Sanderson Beck
Wu Di established an imperial university for the study of the classics, but in the second half of his reign the Legalists had more influence than the Confucians.
Chushingura or The Treasury of Loyal Retainers is meant to commemorate the famous revenge and collective suicide by the 47 samurai who lost their master in 1702, though it is set in 1338.
Increasing poverty and imperial neglect led to banditry and rebellion in China itself.
www.san.beck.org /3-13-Summary.html   (16017 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Inquisition
To seek to trace in these measures the influence of imperial or papal ordinances is vain, since the burning of heretics had already come to be regarded as prescriptive.
The imperial rescripts of 1220 and 1224 were adopted into ecclesiastical criminal law in 1231, and were soon applied at Rome.
The first Christian emperors believed that one of the chief duties of an imperial ruler was to place his sword at the service of the Church and orthodoxy, especially as their titles of "Pontifex Maximus" and "Bishop of the Exterior" seemed to argue in them Divinely appointed agents of Heaven.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08026a.htm   (12704 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of San Francisco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Norton began issuing promissory notes that he called "Imperial Treasury Bond Certificates" in denominations of 50 cents to 10 dollars.
His clothes were as disheveled as always, and he had only a few coins on him - a gold piece worth $2.50, $3 in silver, and a French franc dated 1828, bearing the face of Charles X, France's last Bourbon king.
He had a bundle of his 50 cent imperial treasury notes, dated for repayment in 1890.
www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com /articles/n/nortonJoshua.html   (3895 words)

  
 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 11
Saint Theodore was the son of an imperial treasury official.
Theodore became a novice at a monastery established by his father on his estate at Saccudium (Sakkoudion) near Constantinople, where he was sent to study by his uncle Abbot Saint Plato of Symboleon.
Theodore returned to Constantinople on the emperor's death and was reconciled to Patriarch Nicephorus in a common fight against Emperor Leo V the Armenian, who revived iconoclasm as an imperial policy.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1111.htm   (3545 words)

  
 Medieval Swords
It is kept in the Louvre Museum, in Paris, France.
A second sword linked to the emperor, a saber, is kept in the Weltliche Schatzkammer (Imperial Treasury) in Vienna, Austria.
However, anyone can become an antique medieval sword collector.
www.allaboutartists.com /medievalswords.html   (584 words)

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