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	Three Kingdoms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Three Kingdoms in 262, on the eve of the conquest of Shu.
		In a strict academic sense it refers to the period between the foundation of the Wei in 220 and the conquest of the Wu by the Jin Dynasty in 280.
		The later part of this period was marked by the collapse of the tripartite situation: first the destruction of Shu by Wei (263), then the overthrow of Wei by the Jin Dynasty (265), and the destruction of Wu by Jin (280).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Kingdoms (4655 words)

	Three Kingdoms of Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Three Kingdoms of Korea were Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean peninsula and parts of northeastern China for much of the 1st millennium CE.
		The Three Kingdoms period in Korea is usually considered to run from the 1st century BCE until Silla's triumph over Goguryeo in 668, which marked the beginning of the North and South States period (남북국시대) of Unified Silla in the South and Balhae in the North.
		In the 4th century, Buddhism was introduced to the peninsula and spread rapidly, briefly becoming the official religion of all three kingdoms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Kingdoms_of_Korea (944 words)

	Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Traditional Chinese: 三國演義, Simplified Chinese: 三国演义; pinyin: sānguó yǎnyì), written by Luó Guànzhōng in the 14th century, is a Chinese historical novel based upon events in the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty, and the Three Kingdoms period (220-280).
		Hàn Gāo Zǔ was later reborn as the last Hàn emperor, Emperor Xiàn, while the three generals were reincarnated as rulers of the three kingdoms: Hán Xìn became Cáo Cāo; Péng Yùe became Liú Bèi; and Yīng Bù became Sūn Quán.
		Romance of the Three Kingdoms recorded stories of a Buddhist monk, who was a friend of the renowned general Guān Yǔ and informed him of an assassination attempt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms (3559 words)

	The Three Kingdoms - introducing China's great historical novel
		To get down to specifics: "The Three Kingdoms" recreates the period between the disintegration of the Han dynasty in 168 AD and the subsequent re-unification of China under the Jin dynasty in 280 AD.
		The middle reaches of the River Yangzi, bordering all three kingdoms, were the inevitable focus of many battles.
		Kingdom of Wu The Kingdom of Wu lay south of the lower reaches of the Yangzi.
	www.imperialtours.net /3kingdoms.htm (1452 words)

	South Korea the Three Kingdoms Period
		Chinhan was situated in the middle part of the peninsula, Mahan in the southwest, and Pyonhan in the southeast.
		Despite repeated attacks by Chinese and other opposition forces, by 391 the kingdom's rulers had achieved undisputed control of all of Manchuria east of the Liao River as well as of the northern and central regions of the Korean Peninsula.
		During that period, Kwanggaet'o conquered 65 walled cities and 1,400 villages, in addition to aiding Silla when it was attacked by the Japanese.
	www.country-studies.com /south-korea/the-three-kingdoms-period.html (819 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		THREE KINGDOMS [Three Kingdoms] period of Chinese history from 220 to 265, after the collapse of the Han dynasty.
		When a usurper seized the Wei throne in 265 and founded the Tsin dynasty, the Three Kingdoms period officially came to an end.
		Disorders during the Three Kingdoms period included not only warfare between the Chinese states but also incursions into the north by the Hsiung-nu (Huns).
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:threekngd (237 words)

	ipedia.com: Romance of the Three Kingdoms Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a classical Chinese historical novel about the turbulent period often referred to as the Three Kingdoms.
		Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Chinese: 三國演義, pinyin: Sān Guó Yǎn Yì), written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a classical Chinese historical novel about the turbulent period often referred to as the Three Kingdoms (AD 220-280).
		Romance of the Three Kingdoms recorded stories of a Buddhist monk, who was a friend of the renowned general Guan Yu and informed him of an assassination attempt.
	www.ipedia.com /romance_of_the_three_kingdoms.html (1374 words)

	Nepal The Three Kingdoms - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Although all three ruling houses were related and periodically intermarried, their squabbles over miniscule territorial gains or ritual slights repeatedly led to warfare.
		The complete flowering of the unique culture of the Kathmandu Valley occurred during this period, and it was also during this time that the old palace complexes in the three main towns achieved much of their present-day forms.
		In the west and the south of the three kingdoms, there were many petty states ruled by dynasties of warrior (Kshatriya) status, many claiming an origin among princely, or Rajput, dynasties to the south.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/nepal/nepal_history_the_three_kingdoms.html (1259 words)

	Three Kingdoms World - Introduction
		The Three Kingdoms was a period in Chinese history taking place toward the end of the Han Dynasty.
		It was in 220 AD when the famous Three Kingdoms of Wei, Wu and Shu was established.
		Romance of Three Kingdoms is not only about the struggle and conflicts among the warlords, but it is also about betrayal, courage, determination, friendship, loyalty and trust among the people.
	3kingdoms.tripod.com /intro.html (338 words)

	Three Kingdoms World - Warfare
		These three types of units: infantry, cavalry and naval marine were used depending on the situation and mostly the battle terrain where they were involved in.
		Other than these three basic types of units, there were also special foreign tribemen in the tribal region, heavy cavalry which can be used as horsebowmen in the northern tribes, and elephant units of the Mang tribes.
		Alliances in the Three Kingdoms were constantly changing and were to be relied upon only with utmost wariness.
	3kingdoms.tripod.com /war.html (1185 words)

	5 Tigers: The online Romance of the Three Kingdoms & Dynasty Warriors resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Three Kingdoms period (Simplified Chinese: 三国; Traditional Chinese: 三國; Hanyu Pinyin: Sānguó) is a period in the history of China, part of an era of disunity called the Six Dynasties.
		The middle part of the period, from 220 and 263, was marked by a more militarily stable arrangement between three rival states, Kingdom of Wei (魏;), Kingdom of Shu-Han (漢), and Kingdom of Wu (吳;).
		The Sengoku period (Japanese: 戦国時代, Sengoku-jidai) or Warring States period, was a period of civil war in the history of Japan that spans from the middle 15th to the early 17th centuries.
	www.5-tigers.com /history (1266 words)

	Three Kingdoms
		The middle part of the period, from 220 and 263, was marked by a more militarily stable arrangement between three rival states, Kingdom of Wei (魏), Kingdom of ShuHan (漢), and Kingdom of Wu (吳).
		The later part of this period was marked by the destruction of Shu by Wei (263), the overthrow of Wei by the Jin Dynasty (265), and the destruction of Wu by Jin (280).
		The Wu-Shu alliance against the Wei proved itself to be a militarily stable configuration; the basic borders of the Three Kingdoms almost unchanging for more than forty years.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/th/three_kingdoms.html (3144 words)

	The Three Kingdoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The leaders of the kingdoms strove to reunite the empire and were therefore at constant warfare.
		These three kingdoms were the Wei, in northern China, the Shu to the west, and the Wu in the east.
		The Wei and Shu kingdoms were both centralized, legalist kingdoms, while the Wu kingdom was ruled by a confederation of the most powerful families of the area.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/china/early_imperial_china/threekingdoms.html (354 words)

	Ancient China: The Sui, 589-618
		The Three Kingdoms 220-589 AD The decline and fall of the Later Han dynasty produced a long period of independent states each contending for hegemony over neighboring states; this period, in fact, lasted so long that the more or less uniform Chinese culture almost died out completely.
		The Sui, 589-618 AD The chaos of the Three Kingdoms finally came to an end under the hand of Sui Wen-ti, a general of mixed blood.
		He reunified the northern kingdoms, centralized the government, reformed the taxation structure, and conquered the south--all in a single lifetime.
	www.wsu.edu:8000 /~dee/CHEMPIRE/SUI.HTM (713 words)

	North Korea the Period of the Three Kingdoms
		In the first three centuries A.D., a large number of walled-town states in southern Korea grouped into three federations known as Chinhan, Mahan, and Pynhan; during this period, rice agriculture had developed in the rich alluvial valleys and plains to such an extent that reservoirs had been built for irrigation.
		While a tattered Paekche kingdom nursed its wounds in the southwest, Silla allied with Chinese forces of the Sui and the successor Tang Dynasty (618-907) in combined attacks against Kogury.
		The period of the Three Kingdoms thus ended, but not before the kingdoms had come under the long-term sway of Chinese civilization and had been introduced to Chinese statecraft, Buddhist and Confucian philosophy, Confucian practices of educating the young, and the Chinese written language.
	www.country-studies.com /north-korea/the-period-of-the-three-kingdoms.html (1529 words)

	History of Korea, part I
		All three kingdoms were heavily influenced by China, and Buddhism was introduced to Koguryo in 372.
		Like other kingdoms before it, Koryo was also subject to internal strife and external threats, most notably from the Mongols who had taken over China.
		This period also had its share of external problems, suffering invasions by the Japanese (1592-1598) and the Manchus (1627-1636).
	www.lifeinkorea.com /Information/history1.cfm (551 words)

	Korea - Three Kingdoms Period
		The Koguryo Kingdom (37B.C.-A.D.668) was the first of the Korean kingdoms to be exposed to Chinese Han culture.
		The excavations disclosed that the temples were built in a Koguryo style known as "three Halls-one Pagoda," with each hall in the east, west and north, and an entrance gate in the south.
		Each pagoda and hall appear to have been surrounded by covered corridors, giving the appearance of three separate temples of a style called "one Hall-one Pagoda." The pagoda at the center was found to have been made of wood, while the other two were made of stone.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/korea/arc/three_kingdoms_period.htm (1003 words)

	Chinese History - Three Kingdoms (Sanguo) ä¸å event history (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		During a short peaceful period, the territory of Shu-Han was expanded to the south, covering the region of the modern provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, during the so-called southern campaign (zheng Nanzhong å¾å—ä¸).
		During the Warring States period, the year of rule of the kings of Zhou was the scale of counting time.
		But for the Three Kingdoms, many historians were not able to decide the rule of what emperor should be the orientation scale.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Division/sanguo-event.html (2258 words)

	About Korean Paintings
		Each of the three kingdoms had its own unique painting style, each of which was influenced by a geographical region in China with which that kingdom had relations.
		The Koryo period (918-1392) was marked by a proliferation of painters as many aristocrats and began painting for the intellectual stimulation, and the flourishing of Buddhism, just as it had created a need for celadon wares for religious ceremonies, likewise created a need for paintings with Buddhist motifs.
		While some of these types of paintings did exist in the earlier three kingdoms, and Koryo periods, it was during the Chosun period that they came into their own.
	www.korean-arts.com /about_korean_paintings.htm (1564 words)

	Three Kingdoms Period, China
		The collapse of the Han dynasty was followed by nearly four centuries of rule by warlords.
		The age of civil wars and disunity began with the era of the Three Kingdoms (Wei, Shu, and Wu, which had overlapping reigns during the period A.D. In later times, fiction and drama greatly romanticized the reputed chivalry of this period.
		Unity was restored briefly in the early years of the Jin dynasty (A.D. 265-420), but the Jin could not long contain the invasions of the nomadic peoples.
	www.asianartmall.com /d3king.htm (128 words)

	Three Kingdoms Dynasty Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After the collapse of the Later Han Dynasty in 220, China split into three kingdoms.
		It is still possible to think of the Northern Song empire, 700 years after the Three Kingdoms, as having been composed of three great regional markets corresponding to the vanished realms of Wei, Wu and Shu.
		These geographical divisions are underscored by the fact that the communications routes between the three economic regions were all man-made: the Grand Canal linking north and south, the hauling-way through the gorges of the Yangzi linking the south and Sichuan and the Gallery Road joining Sichuan and the northwest.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Dynasty/dynasty-Three-Kingdoms.html (187 words)

	Three Kingdoms Period - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		Basically my question is- What era is similar to Three kingdoms in the sense that it has many heroes, villains, battles, and twits and turns.
		In that period the non-Han ethnicities rose up their hands and fought against their Han overlords, establishing kingdoms of their own, some short-lived, others unifying the entirety of the north and engaging in numerous warfares that saw total obliteration of certain tribes, certain peoples and all that chaos.
		I personally love the Three Kingdoms period, it was a time of chaos indeed but also a time of chivalry and valor.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=610 (1240 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Romance of the Three Kingdoms Vol 1 (Tuttle Classics of Asian Literature): Books: Lo Kuan-Chung,C.H. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 AD, one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history.
		Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a fantastic story about the struggle of the Han empire.
		The first novel concentrates on the rise of the "Three Kingdoms" period, which begins life as a strategy for balancing power between the three main rivals.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Romance-Kingdoms-Tuttle-Classics-Literature/dp/0804834679 (1160 words)

	Friday
		When China was forced to withdraw from Korea during its own chaotic Six Dynasties period, three separate states emerged in Korea: Koguryo in the north (whose government was centered at Pyongyong, the modern capital of North Korea), including much of the old Chinese-dominated territory, Paekche (Baekje) in the southwest, and Silla (Shilla) in the east.
		The "Three Kingdoms" period lasted for about three centuries, and was brought to a close with Korea's first substantially unified government, when, in 668, with the aid of Tang Chinese armies, Silla conquered the other two kingdoms and became the ruling state of China.
		Among the "Three Kingdoms" of the period c.
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/40.html (669 words)

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