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Avitus
Avitus , d. 456?, Roman emperor of the West (455-56). He was proclaimed emperor in Gaul with the support of the Visigoths but was deposed by Ricimer . He was elected bishop of Placentia but died soon afterward. ... Read more
mikado
mikado , a former title of the emperor of Japan used chiefly in the English language. ... Read more
Antonines
Antonines , collective name of certain Roman emperors of the 2d cent., namely Antoninus Pius ; his adopted sons, Marcus Aurelius and Verus; and Commodus . ... Read more
Philip
Philip or Philip the Arabian (Marcus Julius Philippus), 204?-249, Roman emperor (244-49). He served under Gordian III against the Persians, instigated the assassination of the emperor, and concluded a peace with Persia. The millennium of Rome was celebrated by him with the splendor of secular g... Read more
Yellow Emperor
Yellow Emperor Mandarin Huangdi, legendary Chinese ruler and culture hero; tradition holds that he reigned from 2697 BC to 2597 BC He is one of the mythical prehistoric emperors who supposedly created the basic elements of Chinese civilization. His wife is said to have developed silk production. ... Read more
emperor
emperor [Lat. imperator =one holding supreme power, especially applied to generals], the sovereign head of an empire. In the Roman republic the term imperator referred to the chief military commander and was used only on the battlefield. It was first used continuously by Julius Caesar and was re... Read more
Decius
Decius (Caius Messius Quintus Decius) , 201-51, Roman emperor (249-51), b. Pannonia. He was sent by Philip (Philip the Arabian) to quell a mutiny, but when the soldiers hailed him as emperor, he marched at their head, defeated and killed Philip near Verona, and accepted the title of emperor, add... Read more
Eusebius of Nicomedia
Eusebius of Nicomedia , d. 342, Christian churchman and theologian, leader of the heresy of Arianism . He was bishop of Nicomedia (330-39) and patriarch of Constantinople (339-42); Eusebius was powerful because of his influence with Roman Emperor Constantine I and particularly with the emperor's so... Read more
Saint Gregory II
Saint Gregory II d. 731, pope (715-31), a Roman; successor of Constantine. When Byzantine Emperor Leo III tried to impose iconoclasm in Italy by an imperial edict, Gregory answered that the emperor could not decide tenets of faith. He was supported by a popular uprising directed at the exarch of ... Read more
Jovian
Jovian (Flavius Claudius Jovianus) , c.331-364, Roman emperor (363-64). The commander of the imperial guard under Julian the Apostate in his Persian campaign, Jovian was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers when Julian was killed. He made a humiliating peace with Shapur II of Persia. He returned... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Yongle emperor"

Yongle
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Yongle (or Yung-lo ) (1359–1424) MING Emperor of China (1403–24). Yongle was a usurper who seized the throne when the second Ming emperor, his young nephew, disappeared in a mysterious palace fire. A man of great enterprise, he obliged Japan to pay tribute and extended... Read more
Zheng He
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...remarkable voyages (1405–33) undertaken by order of the Ming emperor YONGLE and his successor. His first voyage in 1405–07, consisting...Zheng He did return with tribute in the form of gifts to the emperor, including giraffes, ostriches, and zebras from the city of... Read more
Tartars
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...x201C;Tartars” is applied specifically to tribesmen living south of the Amur who were defeated by the Ming emperor YONGLE in the early 15th century. Papal envoys ( c. 1250) to the Mongols consistently called them Tartars, probably by association... Read more

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Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1998; ; 477 words ; ...Europe was still emerging from the Middle Ages, the Yongle Emperor, Zhu Di (1402-1424) was busy putting together a fleet...died at sea in 1433, and Zhu Di's grandson, the Xuande Emperor, Zhu Zhanji (1425-1435), died several years later, China... Read more
Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries Throughout History.(Book review)
Magazine article from: ForeWord; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...library-wrecking. Qin Shi Huangdi ( First Emperor ) burned all non-scientific works...libraries fared little better. Emperor Yongle (1360-1424) commissioned the Yongle...1644. However, in 1726, the Manchu emperor Kangxi commissioned a second encyclopedia... Read more
The best was hotly pursued, securing record prices, but there was little interest in the rest from buyers at the September Asian Art sales in New York.(Market Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Yuanmingyuan Palace, remodelled in the Italian baroque style by the Emperor Qianlong in 1747 with the aid of Jesuit priests. It would...covers and bearing the six-character mark of the Yongzheng emperor. Estimated at $70,000 $90,000, London dealers Eskenazi paid...for a white-glazed pear-shaped vase or yuhuchun ... Read more
Museum accessions.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...1368-1644). Likely cast during the reign of either Hongwu or Yongle in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century, the bronze...sometimes including sculptures commissioned by the Chinese emperor himself. This figure might be such a gift: though the bronze... Read more
The Human Tradition in Premodern China.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Xiaoru, and his unsuccessful struggle to preserve an idealized version of high antiquity as a bulwark against the Yongle emperor. Nowhere do these authors seek to uncover patterns across time or to probe the creative tension between Confucian... Read more
The story of coffee: from a mystic's beverage to a capitalist's cup.(Books)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: African Business; 6/1/2004; 700+ words ; ...introduced the concept of drinking infusions--that, in fact, we have the celebrated Ming dynasty treasure fleets of the Emperor Yongle in the 15th century to thank for the discovery of coffee. What Wild proposes is that these Chinese fleets would have... Read more