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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Middle Kingdom"”.
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The middle kingdom in Africa: a quantitative study of support for the China model
This paper provides a quantitative empirical study of support for the China model in Africa. Using comprehensive and previously unpublished data from Afro barometer's sixth round (2014-2016) the paper offers the first large-n (n= 46741) multicounty (n=31) empirical evaluation of support for the …
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The Development of the Justice in Ancient Egypt from the Old to the Middle Kingdom
… periods of its history, namely the Old and Middle Kingdoms (c.2700-1700BCE). In doing so, it adopts a multifaceted approach encompassing not only detailed analysis of Egyptian textual sources, but also harnessing recent theoretical developments in legal anthropology and ethnographic …
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Modeling the Mechanics of Temple Production in the Middle Kingdom: An Investigation of the Shena of Divine Offerings Adjacent to the Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos, Egypt
During the Middle Kingdom, the term Sna or shena, was used by the ancient Egyptians to denote a food production area, primarily of bread and beer, which was attached to religious institutions. As a production area, the shena represented a place of pivotal importance in the economic structure of the …
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Egyptian imperialism in Nubia c. 2009 – 1191 BC
… Ancient Egyptian involvement in Nubia from the Middle Kingdom to the 20th Dynasty (2009 – 1191 BC). Recent advances in our knowledge of both Egyptian and Nubian urbanism have contributed to the overall conclusion regarding the purpose of Egyptian imperialism in Nubia. Excavation reports from the …
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The People's Republic of China's Preeminent Power Ambitions: An Assessment of Its Maritime Efforts
… and its self-proclaimed status as the "Middle Kingdom" and period of "humiliation" left indelible memories that help form policy to this day. Chinese leaders persist in their declaration that China will again reign as the preeminent power in Asia and thus become a major power in a …
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Landscape and environmental changes at Memphis during the dynastic period in Egypt
… and during the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom, the city grew on the western cluster of sandbanks while the West Channel was losing flow. During the First Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Middle Kingdom extreme floods significantly affected the settlement. It recovered during …
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The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
… two substantial gaps in Western knowledge of the Middle Kingdom: the first between Marco Polo’s thirteenth-century travelogue and seventeenth-century Jesuit scholarship; and the second between the Kangxi Emperor’s 1721 ban on Christian missions and the end of the second Opium War in 1860. From the …