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    The Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms, or Haiguo Tuzhi, is a 19th-century Chinese gazetteer compiled by scholar-official Wei Yuan and others...
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    Yokoi Shōnan (category Politicians assassinated in the 1860s)
    scholar and reformer Wei Yuan's Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms, Yokoi became convinced that Japan should embark on a "cautious, gradual and realistic...
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    Sakuma Shōzan (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Shèngwu Ji) and the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms written by Chinese scholar Wei Yuan (1794–1857), Sakuma was struck by the similarities in...
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    Yuelu Academy (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    reformed the grain transportation system and salt monopoly; Wei Yuan, compiler of works on Western geography (Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms),...
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    narrative on the First Opium War (《道光洋艘征撫記》, Dàoguāng Yángsōu Zhēngfǔ Jì). Today, he is mostly known for his 1844 work, Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms...
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    Lin Zexu (category People of the First Opium War)
    later gave this material to Wei Yuan, who published the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms in 1843. He became Governor-General of Hunan and Hubei...
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  • 1843 in literature (category Years of the 19th century in literature)
    Book of Common Prayer (1843 illustrated version) Wei Yuan and others (comp.) – Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (海國圖志, Hǎiguó Túzhì) January...
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    translated to French an abridged version of the Travels from Wei Yuan's Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (Haiguo tuzhi). In 1888, Dr. Emil Bretschneider...
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    Liang Qichao (category Ministers of finance of the Republic of China)
    the exam while Liang's paper was assumed to be Kang's and picked out to be failed. Inspired by the book Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms...
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    goods, they could persuade the British to give up the drug trade without a war. Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms The Opium War (film) William...
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    days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January 3 – The Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (海國圖志, Hǎiguó...
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  • of the Maritime Circuit (Yinghuan zhilüe, 瀛環志略) in 1849. Although this work is lesser known than the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms published...
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  • 1843 in China (category Years of the 19th century in China)
    Publication of the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms, or Haiguo Tuzhi, a gazetteer compiled by scholar-official Wei Yuan and others, based on initial...
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    from the west in order to subdue foreign invaders (“師夷長技以制夷”). He wrote about this idea in his book Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (《海国图志》)in...
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    libraries were by Lin Zexu in the Sizhou Zhi (四洲志; 1839) and Wei Yuan in the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (first ed., 1843), both of which...
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    September 2009). "China's New New Youth". The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020. Zhengyuan...
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    The Commentaries on the Laws of England (commonly, but informally known as Blackstone's Commentaries) are an influential 18th-century treatise on the...
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    Piracy (redirect from Maritime piracy)
    attacks. The term piracy generally refers to maritime piracy, although the term has been generalized to refer to acts committed on land, in the air, on computer...
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    Civilisation Some new hypotheses on the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms by Antoine Simonin Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms in Ancient Texts...
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    711. By the late 12th century, following the expansion of Christian kingdoms in the north, the area of Muslim control had been reduced to the southern...
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    68-pounder gun (category Naval guns of the United Kingdom)
    Ordnance in the British Service, 1877, Table V page 72 Treatise on Manufacture of Ordnance in the British Service, 1877, Table VI page 73 Guns of the Crimean...
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    and impressive treatises of the baronial jurists from the second half of the 13th century. From May 1229, when Frederick II left the Holy Land to defend...
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    each one of the three old Christian kingdoms (Galicia, León and Castile); in the vassal Kingdom of Murcia; and in the frontier with the Muslims, 'La...
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    Dionysius Lardner (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    with James Renwick (1838) The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery Vol. 3 (1840) The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (1842) Courses of Lectures:...
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    industrial cannabis for the production of hemp fiber in Italy really took off during the period of the Maritime Republics and the Age of Sail, due to its...
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    usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Song...
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    of a magnetized needle in 1088 and Zhu Yu mentioned its use in maritime navigation in the text Pingzhou Table Talks, dated 1111–1117. Later compasses were...
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    oarsman on a Venetian galley in 1401 and worked his way up into officer positions. He wrote and illustrated a book that contains a treatise on shipbuilding...
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    Tamil kingdoms of Chola and Pandyas to their south. The Pallavas were finally defeated by the Chola ruler Aditya I in the 9th century CE. The Pallavas...
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    Austronesian cultures in Southeast Asia as kingdoms became Indianized through early maritime trading. The oldest use of abugida scripts in Austronesian...
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