Wu Zetian

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 and aristocratic family.(Adeline 79)Eleven years into his reign,Emperor Gaozong suffered a series of strokes and could no longer speak.From that time until he died 23 years later,Empress Wu ruled China from behind a screen place next to the throne.(Adeline 80)During Empress…

expected to be wise in politic related problems, however, most were not due to lack of experience and responsibility. Fortunately, some empresses were gifted with skills of a great politician such as Empress Dou, Empress Dowager Li and female emperor Wu Zetian. Empress Dou, during the Han dynasty, was not only a faithful wife but also a wise advisor of Emperor Han Wendi. Favoring Daoism instead of the traditional Confucianism, Empress Dou created a “government of non-action, on order to relax…

Enheduanna (~2300 BCE): Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire in Ancient Sumeria, approximately 2300 BCE. She is the largely credited as being the world’s first named author; she wrote numerous poems, psalms, and prayers which lay the foundation for later Hebrew psalms and the Homeric Hymns of Ancient Greece. Enheduanna served as High Priestess to the Akkadian Empire, and was charged with the responsibility to maintain the city’s temple complex…

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…

Ancient Egypt is widely known across the US as having creepy tombs with riches and treasures, along with spooky mummies and curses. This is unusual to many historians because other ancient cultures, such as the many dynasties of Ancient China, the Sumerians, and the Mayans aren’t as well known as the Ancient Egyptians. The majority of people are unaware of the Yellow River in China, rather they are more familiar with the Nile River in Egypt. The Egyptian’s had a more significant culture than any…