The concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of the Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese Empire under the Ch'in dynasty ( 221-207 B.C. ).

This climate-induced collapse seems to have affected the whole of the Middle East, and to have coincided with the collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom.

At this time, Anubis was the most important god of the dead but he was replaced during the Middle Kingdom by Osiris.

In Czech, the region since the early Middle Ages has been called only Čechy (" Czech ") or Království české (" Czech Kingdom "), and its mainly Czech-speaking inhabitants were called Čechové ( in modern Czech Češi ).

More than 50 % of its trade is with the rest of the European Union, especially Greece and the United Kingdom, while the Middle East receives 20 % of exports.

* Return To The Middle Kingdom: Chinese Vegetarian Eating in East Asia

Had the two " non-Han " imperial families not thought themselves as continuing the " Mandate of Heaven " of the Middle Kingdom — the cosmological center of their known world — it would be hard to explain why they retained the costly tradition.

Over the course of the Middle Kingdom, however, he was displaced in that role by Amun, who may have arisen elsewhere.

Several parallel animal fables in Sumerian and Akkadian are among those that Erich Ebeling introduced to modern Western readers ; there are comparable fables from Egypt's Middle Kingdom, and Hebrew fables such as the " king of trees " in Book of Judges 9: 8-15 and " the thistle and the cedar tree " in II Kings 14: 9.

The giant, on returning home, relates to his friends that there are no more knights in the Middle Kingdom, just stinging flies — actually the scrap metal shot from the blunderbuss — and this entices a dragon, Chrysophylax Dives, to investigate the area.

Four generations earlier, the sword belonged to Bellomarius, " the greatest of all the dragon-slayers " in the Middle Kingdom.

Although succeeding pyramids were smaller, pyramid building continued until the end of the Middle Kingdom.

Joyce Tyldesley states that the Great Pyramid itself " is known to have been opened and emptied by the Middle Kingdom ", before the Arab caliph Abdullah al-Mamun entered the pyramid around AD 820.

It is arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) and when this is viewed as a time zone the name Greenwich Mean Time is especially used by bodies connected with the United Kingdom, such as the BBC World Service, the Royal Navy, the Met Office and others particularly in Arab countries, such as the Middle East Broadcasting Center and OSN.

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2040 – 1650 BCE ): " Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.

The Kingdom of Bohemia was, as the only kingdom in the empire, a significant regional power during the Middle Ages.

1750 – 1500 BC ), the Middle Hittite Kingdom ( ca.

** Middle Kingdom of Egypt: 21st to 17th centuries BC

In 1891 Carter was sent out by the Egypt Exploration Fund to assist Percy Newberry in the excavation and recording of Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan.

During the Middle Kingdom ( ca.

The territorial nucleus of the Albanian state forms in the Middle Ages, as the Principality of Arbër and the Sicilian dependency known as the Kingdom of Albania.

They experienced Norse incursions during the early Middle Ages and then became part of the Kingdom of Scotland in the 13th century.

Between the 1870s and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands — the established colonial powers in Asia — added to their empires vast expanses of territory in the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, and South East Asia.

* Joshua Prawer, The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: European Colonialism in the Middle Ages.

The collection, among the world's largest, overviews Egyptian life spanning Ancient Egypt, the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom, Coptic art, and the Roman, Ptolemaic, and Byzantine periods.

Among all Christians, 37. 5 % live in the Americas, 25. 7 % live in Europe, 22. 5 % live in Africa, 13. 1 % live in Asia, 1. 2 % live in Oceania and 0. 9 % live in the Middle East.

Approximately 1, 100 mappae mundi are known to have survived from the Middle Ages.

A fourth island shown on some maps, Anniversary Island one km ( 1, 100 yards ) southwest of Middle Island, appears as just a sand bar on satellite images.

Eleanor of Aquitaine () ( 1122 or 1124 – 1 April 1204 ) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.

For 2006, $ 9. 6 billion of revenue came from the Americas ( Canada, Latin America, and the United States ); $ 8 billion from Europe, Middle East, and Africa ; $ 1. 5 billion from Asia-Pacific ; Services ' revenue was: Infrastructure $ 12 billion, Applications Software $ 5. 9 billion, Business Process Outsourcing $ 3 billion and all other $ 421 million.

A nation with a population of less than one million, it maintains nearly 1, 000 soldiers overseas in UN peacekeeping missions, mainly in the Middle East.

Isidore's T and O map, which was seen as representing a small part of a spherical Earth, was essentially unchanged from its predecessors of 1, 200 years previously, continued to be used through the Middle Ages by authors, e. g. the 9th century bishop Rabanus Maurus who compared the habitable part of the northern hemisphere ( Aristotle's northern temperate clime ) with a wheel.

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It became fragmented, with various parts ruled by numerous Middle kingdoms for the next 1, 500 years.

* 1969 " Middle and Late Bronze Age Strata at Megiddo ", Levant 1 ( 1969 ), pp. 25 – 60.

Mandates in the Middle East and Africa, which included: 1.

The Middle East's expected economic growth rate is at about 4. 1 % for 2010 and 5. 1 % in 2011.

During the Middle Ages several other days were variously taken as the beginning of the calendar year ( 1 March, 25 March, Easter, 1 September, 25 December ).

In Europe, Middle East and Asia, offshore powerboat racing is led by the UIM regulated Class 1 and Powerboat GPS ( formerly known as Powerboat P1 ).

International links include: landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable systems (* AMK ) that provide links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe ; 3 Intelsat satellite earth stations ( 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean ); 3 operational international gateway exchanges ( 2 at Karachi and 1 at Islamabad ); and microwave radio relay to neighboring countries.

It has been estimated that around 1, 000 tons of pepper and 1, 000 tons of the other common spices were imported into Western Europe each year during the Late Middle Ages.

In 1988, however, overseas construction contracts totaled only US $ 2. 6 billion ( orders from the Middle East were US $ 1. 2 billion ), a 1 percent increase over the previous year, while new orders for domestic construction projects totaled US $ 13. 8 billion, an 8. 8 percent increase over 1987.

It described the Shriners as " among secret lodges the No. 1 in prestige, wealth and show ", and stated that " n the typical city, especially in the Middle West, the Shriners will include most of the prominent citizens.

More recent scholarship, such as that of Yaakov Elman, concludes that since the Tosefta, as we know it, must be dated linguistically as an example of Middle Hebrew 1, it was most likely compiled in early Amoraic times from oral transmission of baraitot., Professor Shamma Friedman, has found that the Tosefta draws on relatively early Tannaitic source material and that parts of the Tosefta predate the Mishnah.