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Hace 5 días · Marco Polo Was in China: New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues. Leiden, Brill, 2012, ISBN: 9789004231931; 676pp.; Price: £148.00. Since its publication in the 13th century, the Travels of Marco Polo has attracted a wide readership around the world.
Hace 1 día · 13th century: Explosive bomb in Jin dynasty Manchuria: Explosive bombs are used in 1221 by the Jin dynasty against a Song Dynasty city. The first accounts of bombs made of cast iron shells packed with explosive gunpowder are documented in the 13th century in China and are called "thunder-crash bombs", coined during a Jin dynasty naval battle in ...
Hace 5 días · This source is a part of the Children in Late Imperial China, 900-1930 teaching module. Wang Yin-lin, Three-Character Classic [San tzu ching] , c. 13th century, Children and Youth in History. Text
Hace 3 días · The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus ( lit. 'Great State' in Kipchak Turkic ), [8] was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. [9] With the division of the Mongol Empire after 1259, it became a functionally separate khanate.
Hace 3 días · This announcement was known as "releasing the roll" ( 放榜 ). ( c. 1540, by Qiu Ying) The imperial examination ( Chinese: 科舉; pinyin: kējǔ; lit. "subject recommendation") was a civil service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.
But it was a long way from ninth-century China, where gunpowder was invented, to 19th-century British muskets. Ironically, perhaps, it is believed that Chinese alchemists accidentally discovered gunpowder while trying various mixtures to make an “elixir of life”. It was a century and more from the invention of gunpowder to the first firearm.
Hace 4 días · Small Song Dynasty Carved Wood Bodhisattva, 13th Century, China. H 7.25 in W 4 in D 3.5 in. Chinese Qing Dynasty Carved Pedestal with Rose Marble Inset.
