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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Old Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Old Kingdom is most commonly regarded as spanning the period when Egypt was ruled by the Third Dynasty through to the Sixth Dynasty (2630–2151 BC).
The Old Kingdom was followed by a period of disunity and relative cultural decline referred to by Egyptologists as the First Intermediate Period.He married 3 wives
The Old Kingdom is perhaps best known, however, for the large number of pyramids, which were constructed at this time as pharaonic burial places.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Old_Kingdom   (759 words)

  
 Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The latter is derived from the name of Chunshen Jun (春申君), a nobleman of the Chu Kingdom (楚国) in the 3rd century B.C. whose territory included the Shanghai area and has locally been revered as a hero.
However, the few cultural landmarks in Shanghai are very ancient and typically date to the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, because present-day Shanghai is within the historic cultural center of the Wu Kingdom (222-280).
During the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai became an important port regionally for the Yangtze and Huangpu rivers and a sea port for the nearby Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, although overseas commerce was still forbidden at that time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai   (6149 words)

  
 Shanghai
The former is derived from the ancient name Hu Du (沪渎) of the river now known as Suzhou River.
Like Shanghai's architecture, local fashion designers strive to create a fusion of western and traditional designs, often with innovative if not controversial results.
Longhua temple, largest temple in Shanghai, a Buddhist temple built during the Three Kingdoms period
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shanghai.html   (5332 words)

  
 China Travel Hotels
The oldest section of the Great Wall was built during ancient China's Chu Kingdom, during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.), experts said at an academic conference held last week in Lushan County, central China's Henan Province.
Pottery workshops of the Han Kingdom, contemporaneous with Dongzhou Dynasty (770-256 BC), have been unearthed after being buried for 2,250 years in Xinzheng City, central China's Henan Province.
The workshops, consisting of groups of well-preserved kilns and buildings, were found in an area of 200 meters wide and 250 meters long in the east of the ancient Zhenghan City in Xinzheng, according to the province's archeological authority.
www.chinatrips.net /China_Travel_Hotels.htm   (16114 words)

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