Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestral to modern Chinese characters.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation: The Reordering of Chinese Society Following the Era of Mongol Rule.

In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, edited by Michael Loewe.

Early Chinese rocket

" In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, ed.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

This set of syllables shrinks to 67 in Early Middle Japanese ( though some were added through Chinese influence ).

Early Middle Japanese sees a significant amount of Chinese influence on the language's phonology – length distinctions become phonemic for both consonants and vowels, and series of both labialised ( e. g. kwa ) and palatalised ( kya ) consonants are added.

Early records on medicine have been discovered from ancient Egyptian medicine, Babylonian medicine, Ayurvedic medicine ( in the Indian subcontinent ), classical Chinese medicine ( predecessor to the modern traditional Chinese Medicine ), and ancient Greek medicine and Roman medicine.

Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Early Chinese rocket.

* Early Daoist texts – Chinese Text Project

" Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin " ( UBC Press, 1991 ).

Early ceramic wares made at Meissen and other centers of true porcelain imitated Chinese shapes for dishes, vases and teawares ( see Chinese export porcelain ).

Early Chinese literature refers to the Yellow River simply as ( Old Chinese: * C. gˤaj ), a character that has come to simply mean " river " in modern usage.

* Characters such as 武 ( war, martial arts ) or 屋 ( room, house ), pronounced roughly mwio and uk in Early Middle Chinese, have an initial v phoneme in Hakka, being vu and vuk in Hakka respectively ( Mandarin: wu ).

Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.

Early equipment was very flimsy ; ;

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

Early in her life she had discovered that where there were men, there was money, and with the two came luxury and liquor.

Early in 1822 he was at Fort Garry offering to bring in pork, flour, liquor and tobacco.

Early in the war it was not uncommon for planters' sons to retain in camp Negro `` body servants '' to perform the menial chores such as cooking, foraging, cleaning the quarters, shining shoes, and laundering clothes.

Instead Sergeant Early was quiet, sharp and confident.

There was no weapon Early could not take apart and reassemble blind-folded.

But for all his erudite confidence, Sergeant Early was right out of the Garryowen mold.

Sergeant Early let the new CO know just how lucky he was to be in the best troop in the best regiment in the United States Army.

Early in the nineteenth century the State of New Hampshire was casting about for a way to found its own state university.

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

Early Adelaide was shaped by religious freedom and a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties, which led to the moniker " City of Churches ".

The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul.

Early guncotton was unstable however, and burned very fast and hot, leading to greatly increased barrel wear.

She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.

The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.

Although this position was theoretically nearly impregnable, Early lacked the manpower to hold the entire line in strength.

Early issues featured two SF-themed stories aimed at a slightly older age group than 2000 AD and soon became a magnet for British creators who wanted to create comics for the adult market.

Early Soviet strategy aimed to avoid war while developing Stalin's hold over the Soviet state and expanding the industrial base.

Early Halloween costumes were aimed at children in particular, but after the mid-20th century, as Halloween increasingly came to be celebrated by adults, the Halloween costume was worn by adults as much as children.

Early Halloween costumes emphasized the pagan and gothic nature of Halloween, and were aimed primarily at children.

Early Telechrome devices used two electron guns aimed at either side of a phosphor plate.

Early in 1468, the Rivers estates were plundered by Warwick's partisans, and the open war of the following year was aimed at destroying the Woodvilles.

Early in 2011, a letter using government stationery was sent to Conservative riding associations seeking assistance in raising $ 200, 000 funding for an ad campaign aimed at bolstering support among ethnic communities in ridings that the Conservatives are targeting in the next election.

Early in his term, his administration approved education reform and a large across-the-board tax cut aimed at stimulating the economy.

Early in his term, Bush signed a controversial $ 1. 3 trillion federal tax cut aimed at revitalizing the economy, but also led to federal budget deficits.

Early joe jobs aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender or inducing the recipients to take action against him ( see also e-mail spoofing ), but they are now typically used by commercial spammers to conceal the true origin of their messages.

Early on in T4's run, programmes aimed at children often aired in addition to the content aimed at older viewers, with shows such as CatDog and 2 Stupid Dogs appearing in the early schedule of the strand.

Early jet engines produced large amounts of smoke, so early combustor advances, in the 1950s, were aimed at reducing the smoke produced by the engine.

Early in the fourth season the UVa Drumline was chosen by Yamaha Corporation of North America to represent them in an advertisement campaign that was aimed at high school students to promote Yamaha musical products.

Early work in NER systems in the 1990s was aimed primarily at extraction from journalistic articles.

The SkyTrak Weather Network airs constant local and regional weather information, replays of WTHR's noon and 6 p. m. newscasts, NBC News ' early morning news program Early Today and the second half of the Saturday edition of Today ( which are not seen on WTHR ), as well as a variety of educational programming ( most of which is aimed at children ), including replays of WTHR's long-running quizbowl Brain Game.