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Part One Ancient Chinese Legal Civilization (c. 21st century B.C -- 1840 A.D.) -- Introduction -- The Origin of Chinese Legal Civilization -- the Legal System during the Xia and the Shang Dynasties (c. 21st century B.C.-c.11st century B.C.) -- The Developed Form of Chinese Legal Civilization in its Early Stage--the Legal System during the Western Zhou Dynasty (11st century B.C -- 770 B.C.) -- The Social Transformation and the Legal Changes -- the Legal System during the Spring and Autumn Period (770 B.C- 221 B.C) -- Laws are Omnipresent -- the Legal System during the Qin Dynasty (4th century B.C- 206 B.C) -- The Confucianization of Chinese Legal Civilization-- the Legal System during the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties (206 B.C-220 A.D. ) -- The Advancement of Legislation and the Great Cultural Integration-- the Legal System during the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220 A.D -- 581 A.D.) -- The Crystallization of Chinese Legal Civilization-- the Legal System during the Sui and the Tang Dynasties (581 A.D -- 907 A.D.) -- Chinese Legal Civilization during the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties under the Driving Force of the Commodity-based Economies (960 A.D -- 1279 A.D.) -- Changing the Age-old Way of Governing the Country -- the Legal System during the Yuan Dynasty (1279 A.D -- 1368 A.D.) -- The Final Form of Chinese Legal Civilization -- the Legal System during the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D. - 1644 A.D.) -- The Final Form of Chinese Legal Civilization -- the Legal System during the Qing Dynasty (1644 A.D. - 1911 A.D.).

New York Times best-selling author Leland Gregory is one of Andrews McMeel Publishing's most successful noncartoon humorists. Silly, shocking, weird, hilariously funny--and outrageously true--the short anecdotes inside his anthologies of human stupidity are culled from print, online, and broadcast media from all over the world. Inside Stupid Ancient History, Gregory chronicles Greek philosophers, Roman conquerors, and historic mythconceptions, including: -- To fight off Roman ships in 300 BC, Carthaginians catapulted live snakes at them. -- The Athenian lawmaker Draco died of suffocation when gifts of cloaks were showered upon him by grateful citizens at an Aegina theater in 620 BC. -- In ancient Rome, long before the advent of the Christian Bible, Roman men swore to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" by placing their right hand on their testicles. It is from this ritual that we derived the term "testimony." -- Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus burned to the ground in 356 BC. The arsonist was executed; and to make sure his wish for everlasting fame wouldn't come true, it was ordered that his name be stricken from all records and never mentioned again. But people will talk. Despite all efforts, his name leaked, and Herostratus is remembered as one of the most notorious firebugs in history.

Dieser Sammelband vereint Beiträge zum Wassermanagement antiker Zivilisationen. Er umfasst dabei die große Bandbreite antiker Methoden zum Wasser sammeln, zur Wasserversorgung, zur Verteilung oder zu Verteilungsproblemen. Die Beiträge reichen von den Anfängen des Wassermanagements in Mesopotamien und Ägypten, über die Hellenistischeund Römische Epoche, bis hinein in das Mittelalter und die Neuzeit. Das Faszinierende am antiken Wassermanagement sind dabei nicht nur die frühen Lösungen und Anwendungen, sondern insbesondere auch ihre Wirkung und Wichtigkeit bis in die Gegenwart und Zukunft, denn Wasser ist und bleibt die wichtigste Ressource für menschliches Wohlergehen. ; This volume brings together papers on Water Management in Ancient Civilizations. It envelops a great variety of ancient means to harvest, supply, distribute, and dispute water in all its forms. Contributions range in time period from the early means of water management in Mesopotamia and Egypt, to the Epochs of Hellenistic and Roman Eras, into medieval times and beyond. The fascinating momentum of ancient water management include not only the great solutions and applications that were already at hand thousands of years ago, but its implications and importance for present and future problems, since water is, was, and will continue to be the most precious resource for human wellbeing.

"By providing a platform for scholars working in a variety of fields, this v. presents cutting-edge research dealing with various aspects of ancient ethnographic thought: its formation and devlopment, its intellectual and cultural milieux, the later reception of ethnographic traditons, and the extent to which these represent major constitutive elements of shifting notions of culture, power and identity."--