Questions tagged [3rd-century]
The 3rd century began on January 1, 201 CE and end on December 31, 300 CE in the Gregorian calendar.
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Did the Battle of Red Cliffs take place on the border between Cao Cao and Liu Bei's territories?
In the YouTube video Three Kingdoms - OverSimplified, we have this depiction of the Battle of Red Cliffs:
The video suggests the Battle of Red Cliffs (赤壁之战) takes place on the border between Cao Cao ...
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Did Cao Cao really say the greatest traitor resembled an honest man?
The greatest traitor has always resembled an honest man and the
greatest falsehood comes across as truth.
Righteousness and evil cannot be discerned by their appearance.
People have decided wrongly ...
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Is there any idea of why Cao Cao's parents would give him a nearly identical name to the family name?
I've been doing a lot of reading up about the Three Kingdoms era of China, and Cao Cao stuck out to me as an interesting name. After some research I found that the words in Chinese are different, and ...
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In Romance of the Three Kingdoms why do people still use bamboo sticks when paper had already been invented?
By the time of the setting of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, paper had already been invented. Why do kings often (according to the movies) receive letters on bamboo sticks?
Is this historically ...
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Did the Palmyrene Empire actually own territory beyond the Euphrates?
On the Wikipedia article for the Palmyrene empire. It shows an image of the empire in 271 that includes territory beyond the Euphrates in Northern Mesopotamia.
However the article mentions nothing ...
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Why was the Records of the Three Kingdoms composed before that of the Later Han?
Our professor taught that the Chinese historiographic tradition demanded each dynasty compose the history of the previous one, using the 'veritible records' (實錄) or court diaries (起居注) provided by ...
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Why did Emperor Xian's flight from Chang'an take one year?
During the end of the Han dynasty, the capital Luoyang fell under the control of the warlord Dong Zhuo who, fleeing a coalition of lords against him, burned it and moved the young Xian Emperor to ...
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Why did Cao Cao slaugther the inhabitants of towns?
Cao Cao besieged Yongqiu for some months and eventually conquered it,
after which he massacred its population, along with Zhang Chao and his
family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Miao
Was ...
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What did Kong Rong say about Cao Cao that got Kong Rong killed?
The Wikipedia article on Kong Rong says:
In 208, Kong Rong spoke ill of Cao Cao before an emissary from Sun
Quan, a warlord occupying southeast China. Cao Cao then sentenced him
to death. ...
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When were Roman Emperor's faces placed on coins?
During an emperor's reign, were coins (i.e. sestertii) minted the year they became emperors, the year they stopped being emperors, or right in the middle?
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Roman navy propelled by animals instead of human rowers?
I have read one brief account of military planning around the time of Roman emperor Constantine the Great (272 – 337) whereby the Roman navy's rowers could have been substituted by animals (source ...
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Origin of Diocletian's tetrarchy
I have always been impressed by the elegance, symmetry (and relative modesty) of the tetrarchy founded by Roman emperor Diocletian (245 - 316). Is it something that was invented at the time or does ...
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