Imperial examination

In order to attract scholars, he held exams, and sponsored scholarly projects (Hook). He held civil service examinations and opened “a special channel through which persons with exceptional talents in learning and writing were admitted into his service on recommendation” (Kanda 3). 50 men were rewarded with appointments at the Hanlin Academy. When these men were…

The samurai and the knight had his origins in military and economic need. His role was as a warrior, and like the samurai in some cases he was little more than a thug rewarded for his viciousness. But if a knight was to succeed, he had to take his role in the military seriously. Furthermore, like the samurai of Japan as time went on, success required more than brawn: it required loyalty to his liege-lord in society as well as strategy and ingenuity on the battlefield. Born of Noble blood and…

Tang rulers worked to restore a strong central government in China.They made a lot of reforms or changes to improve the government.(connect 2)The Tang court used examination to appoint many Confucian scholars to the ruling bureaucracy.These examinations tested the candidates’ literary skills and knowledge of Confucian texts.(wu 22)The court used this exam system to staff a portion of the empire’s bureaucracy.(wu 23)Wu Zetian(625-705AD)was born into a rich…

revolutionary groups. Grigori Rasputin was introduced to Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra in 1907 in hope that he could cure their son Alexei who was suffering from internal bleeding as a result of his haemophilia B. He had been invited to the imperial court because the Tsarina was desperate for a cure for her son and had heard that Rasputin had extraordinary gifts of healing. Rasputin did appear to help Alexei with his condition, but, ‘Rasputin did not, of course, have the magical or…

Following the war with Paraguay, in which slaves fought as members of the imperial army, the issue of slave labor had become a problem for parliament to address, and the “free for the womb” debate began in Brazil. Martha Abreu’s article “Slave Mothers and Freed Children: Emancipation and Female Space in Debates on the ‘Free Womb’ Law, Rio de Janeiro, 1871” analyzes the Free Womb Law, the debate surrounding its proposal, and the potential obstacles it would present to the perpetuation of…

Martin Luther is considered one of the most influential figures in the history of Christianity. He affected many different parts of life in Europe, especially the religion and the politics. His views are no longer considered radical but were very much so in the 16th century. Born in 1483, and died in 1546, Martin Luther lived a long life for the time period and was very influential during the time when he was alive. In many ways, the Reformation caused a chain reaction that sparked many other…

Afterwards, Confucius values has a very big impact on its culture in which people regarded Confucianism as the moral guides. But what makes it the important is that other differences are originated from the political change. The cancellation of the imperial examination system brought the change of the social class structure. The gentry scholars are no longer the role models since the change in politics brings more possibilities and freedom to citizens in modern societies. At the same time, a…

the legislative efforts to eradicate piracy, they ignored how those policies were enforced at the local level. Combining these sources with trial documents allows us an eclectic view of imperial and colonial efforts to end piracy’s threat to the empire. The study of piracy trials during the era under examination was made considerably easier by the recent publication of Joel Baer’s British Piracy in the Golden Age. Many of the documents discussed herein can be found in Baer’s four volume set,…

needed to achieve a scientific reputation.However Cox was an outstanding teacher of mathematics. Blackwell, who was appointed to Howard University in 1944. Year after year, our master's students consistently did much better in departmental oral examinations on material they'd studied with Cox than on material they'd studied with me or from our colleagues Woodward, Claytor, and others.During the years of World War II Cox contributed to the war effort by teaching engineering science and war…

SBI goes once again to British India. Its lineage can be followed to the Bank of Calcutta which was established in 1806, also the Bank of Bombay (1840) and the Bank of Madras (1843). In 1921, these three amalgamated into the Imperial Bank of India. In 1955, the Imperial Bank of India turned into the State Bank of India. Additionally, Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI), a monetary organization was structured in 1955 as…