Shaanxi

Assyria was the area in the Near East which, reached from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and down through Egypt. The empire began modestly at the city of Ashur (known as Subartu to the Sumerians), located in Mesopotamia north-east of Babylon. The Xia Dynasty 2070 B.C.E. – 1600 B.C.E. is the first dynasty to be described as independent in both the official Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial Bamboo Annals, which record the names of seventeen kings over fourteen generations lasting 471 years. Xia Dynasty was the first dynasty of China. The region of Xia dynasty was near Henan and Shaanxi province. Yu the Great was first set up the dynasty under the Abdication System. After he died, his son Qi made…

Shensi China Jan 23 1556 This earthquake occurred in the Shaanxi province (formerly Shensi), China, about 50 miles east-northeast of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi. This earthquake has took 830,000 lives and ground fissures landslides and city walls were destroyed. This quake also affected Liuyang 500 miles away from shensi. 2. 1964 Alaska Earthquake. A magnitude of 9.2 earthquake shook alaska and created many damage in communities. Anchorage has many damaged because of no earthquake proof…

The Army of the First Emperor Qin, an incredibly large and unique collection of sculpted soldiers, dates back to 210-209 BCE. During the first years of his ruling, Qin Shi Huang ordered the creation of the famous terracotta army, requiring over 700,000 craftsmen to make. The artwork was found and assumed created in the Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province. Being a particular work of art that is distinguished throughout the Chinese history, the Terracotta Army emphasizes the good works of…

Giant Pandas are native to China, where they are considered a national treasure. However, pandas are endangered. Only about 1,600 live in the wild, and about 100 of them live in zoos around the world. Also called, great pandas, parti-colored bears, white bears, and bamboo bears, Giant Pandas are distinguished from other pandas by their large size and black-and-white coloring. The bold coloring actually may provide camouflage. Giant pandas live up to their name. They are 4-5 feet (1.2 to…

The construction of the tomb was described by historian Sima Qian (145–90 BCE) in his most noted work Shiji, written a century after the mausoleum's completion. Work on the mausoleum began in 246 BCE soon after Emperor Qin (then aged 13) ascended the throne, and the project eventually involved 700,000 workers.[3] Geographer Li Daoyuan, writing six centuries after the First Emperor's death, recorded in Shui Jing Zhu that Mount Li was a favoured location due to its auspicious geology, "famed for…

know the deeply things inside her mind. It is the things that she suggests that good writers should do it. Writers will have time that isolate from outside world, and use this time to talk to the inside world of their mind. However, the writer has to manage with loneliness as well. Human is one of social animals. We have to have society. The writer also has friends, and family. If we can get the benefit from the isolation, it also can create disadvantage to the writer. On the other hand,…

Natural selection Name: Giant Panda as it is mostly recognized. A panda has a greater appetite in summer than winter; in the wild, they can eat many animals that are occasionally dead. Scientific name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Life span: 20 years in the wild. Location of natural habitat: Giant panda’s are from west china; 99% of them live in the mountains that is in Sichuan, some are also located in Shaanxi and Gansu country. Enemies: tiger, panther and wolf. Color: Normally black and…

Chiang Kai-Shek’s command, the Nationalists bombarded the communists with air strikes. Some lives were lost during the airstrikes and daily attacks, but most of them were lost because of disease and starvation. Also, some Communists left the march and became peasants in towns along the march because they thought it was better than walking for hundreds of miles and starving (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). The injured and ill were left behind to die (Youtube Documentary). Mao Zedong’s two…

She was an active member of the CCP in shanghi and she even visited CCP headquarters in Yan’an in the Shaanxi province of china. In 1939 Qing married rising CCP party member Mao Zedong. Some party members disagreed with this marriage initially, but went along with it as they were ensured Jiang would never play a role in politics. This would prove to be a lie when Qing seriously entered politics in 1960’s. In 1948 Jiang became head of the CCP’s propaganda department. In the summer of 1966, Jian…

Do you know Cultural Revolution when it was planned is starting from the literary inquisition? Historian Wu Han's a "Hai Rui Dismissed from Office" is the Cultural Revolution fuse. As a novel, a play, a movie and convicted of writers, actors, almost endless, and now people actually have forgotten.such as "red river mountain dew",it is a novel about the revolutionary struggle of shaanxi, but this author, cadres, and even ordinary people, thousands of people into unjust verdict.In Cultural…