Capitals: of the Song Dynasty, Kaifeng and Lin ' an ; of the Liao Dynasty, Shangjing, Nanjing, and Tokmok ; of the Jin Dynasty, Shangjing, Zhongdu, and Kaifeng ; of the Western Xia Dynasty, Yinchuan

Meanwhile, in what are now the northwestern Chinese provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Ningxia, there emerged a Western Xia Dynasty from 1032 to 1227, established by Tangut tribes.

In the ensuing years, China was divided between the Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty and the Tangut Western Xia.

*** The Classic of History is a collection of documents and speeches of the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou and period before.

In the Middle Ages, the Mongol Empire's campaign against China ( then comprising the Western Xia Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, and Southern Song Dynasty ) by Genghis Khan until Kublai Khan, who eventually established the Yuan Dynasty in 1271, with their armies was extremely effective, allowing the Mongols to sweep through large areas.

In China, there was a triangular affair of continued war and peace settlements between the Song Dynasty, the Tanguts-led Western Xia in the northwest, and the Khitans of the Liao Dynasty in the northeast.

* 1080 – 1081: The Chinese statesman and scientist Shen Kuo is put in command of the campaign against the Western Xia, and although he successfully halts their invasion route to Yanzhou ( modern Yan ' an ), another officer disobeys imperial orders and the campaign is ultimately a failure because of it.

* 1093: when the Chinese Empress Dowager Gao dies, the conservative faction that had followed Sima Guang is ousted from court, the liberal reforms of Wang Anshi reinstated, and Emperor Zhezong of Song halted all negotiations with the Tanguts of the Western Xia, resuming in armed conflict with them.

* Chongzong Emperor, ruler of Northwest China ( Western Xia )

* Huizong Emperor, ruler of Northwest China ( Western Xia )

* Jingzong Emperor, ruler of Northwest China ( Western Xia )

* Yizong Emperor, ruler of Northwest China ( Western Xia )

* Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia

* Li Jiqian, Tangut jiedushi who ruled the new Western Xia Dynasty in northwestern China ( b. 963 )

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo begins his defensive military campaign against the Tanguts of the Western Xia Kingdom, successfully defending the invasion route to Yan ' an.

* Genghis Khan conquers Western Xia.

* The Yongning era of Emperor Chongzong of Western Xia ends.

* Li Jiqian, Tangut jiedushi who ruled the new Western Xia Dynasty in northwestern China ( d. 1004 )

* Emperor Renzong of Western Xia, 5th emperor of the Western Xia dynasty ( b. 1124 )

* Incursions by the Western Xia and the threat of further Liao Dynasty military actions against the Song Dynasty force an increase in tribute payments to the Liao.

A 17th-century Italian map showing a large " Kingdom of Barantola or Boutan " bordering on Nepal and Tibet, as well as, surprisingly, Yunnan, Sichuan, and the Western Xia | Kingdom of Tanguts

Ribbentrop expressed his firmly-held belief that neither Britain nor France would go to war for Poland, but if that should occur, he fully expected the Italians to honour the terms of the Pact of Steel ( which was both an offensive and defensive treaty ), and declare war not only on Poland, but on the Western powers if necessary.

The PAGAD experience led the Western Cape provincial government to declare a ' war on gangs ' that became a key priority of the ANC provincial government at the time.

The only other possibility for Western Australia would have been to declare a rebellion against the Australian Federal Government.

Still, the powerless government had its use — when World War I began, several Western powers and Japan wanted China to declare war on Germany, in order to liquidate the latter's holdings there.

*: King Vajiravudh on the 22 of July 1917 decided to declare war on the Central Powers and joined the Entente Powers in their fight on the Western Front.

Both states initially declined to declare infection and close their borders, so Colebatch closed Western Australia's borders unilaterally.

The ongoing struggle between the rising Papacy and the retreating empire led the Pope to unilaterally declare the Frankish King Charlemagne to be the successor of the Western Emperors in 800.

Its conservation is difficult because the bioactivity of the tree has led many Western governments to declare it a proscribed species.

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and the Fond du Lac Railroad Companies were forced to declare bankruptcy.

Attendances at the matches were far lower than expected, and part way through the season Global Football Australia had to declare itself bankrupt and hand over control of the team to the Soccer Association of Western Australia.

Editorial policies of many Western ( English language ) business publications is to ignore " merger " declarations and declare one company to be bought by another, often by splitting hairs over the number of board members, etc.

Democratic-Republican delegates from Southern and Western states had been the primary leaders in the push to declare war, asserting that the British had violated America's sovereign rights.

External national responsibility involves a burgeoning requirement that the leaders of the Western nations so guide their decisions as to further the viability of other friendly nations.

They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

In the following century, the Byzantines managed to reassert their control in Western and Northern Anatolia.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

Western astrology is founded on the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies such as the Sun, Moon, planets, which are analyzed by their movement through signs of the zodiac ( spatial divisions of the ecliptic ) and by their aspects ( angles ) relative to one another.

This instantly broke Victoria's stranglehold over state titles and Western Australia and South Australia began to win many of their games against Victoria.

The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.

It was then known as Bill Haley's Saddlemen, indicating their definite leaning toward the tough Western style.

However, the Western Allies ' air-to-ground aircraft were so greatly feared out of proportion to their actual tactical success, that following the lead up to Operation Overlord German vehicle crews showed reluctance to move en masse during daylight.

In May 1916 the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Russia agreed the Sykes – Picot Agreement, which defined their proposed spheres of influence and control in Western Asia should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Famous swing orchestras in California realized that many of their followers were leaving to dance to Bob Will's Western swing.

Known as Tractarians after their production of Tracts for the Times on theological issues, they advanced the case for the Church of England being essentially a part of the ' Western Church ', of which the Roman Catholic Church was the chief representative.

Many of the Germanic people that filled the power vacuum left by the Western Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages codified their laws.

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

Sociocultural anthropologists have increasingly turned their investigative eye on to " Western " culture.

Further minimizing reliance on a single major partner, successive Czech governments have welcomed U. S. investment ( amongst others ) as a counterbalance to the strong economic influence of Western European partners, especially of their powerful neighbour, Germany.

Since the revolution and the subsequent mutually-agreed peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Czechs have made integration with Western institutions their chief foreign policy objective.

The feigned retreat, next to unknown in Western Europe at that time — it was a traditionally eastern tactic — required both extraordinary discipline on the part of the troops and exact timing on the part of their commander.

Recently, the toads have made their way into Western Australia and one has even been found on the far western coast in Broome.

In the Western Hemisphere, about 75 % of females are affected at some time in their lives.