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| Cheng Tang |
first leader of the Shang dynasty of China, ruling in approximately the seventeenth century B.C.E. (exact dates contested). |
| Chou |
the third dynasty in China, about 1122 to 256 B.C. |
| Great Pyramid of Giza |
a limestone and granite pyramid, which is the oldest and only remaining of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, built circa 2500 B.C.E. as a memorial and tomb for King Khufu, the second king of the fourth Egyptian dynasty. |
| Kublai Khan |
a Mongol emperor of China from about 1260 to about 1294 and founder of the Mongol dynasty (1216?-1294?). |
| Ming |
the Chinese dynasty of 1368-1644 known for its scholarly and artistic achievements, esp. in textiles, painting, and porcelains. |
| Ptolemy |
any of the Macedonian dynasty that ruled Egypt from 323 to 30 B.C. [1/2 definitions] |
| Sesheshet |
the mother of King Teti, the Egyptian ruler who was the first pharaoh of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty in the third millenium B.C.E. |
| Shang Dynasty |
the second Chinese dynasty, in power for approximately six hundred years, starting in the late eighteenth or seventeenth century B.C.E. (exact dates contested). |
| Teti |
the first pharaoh of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, reigning in the middle of the third millenium B.C.E. (2345 B.C.E.?-- 2333 B.C.E?). |
| Tutankhamen |
an Egyptian king of the eighteenth dynasty (fourteenth century B.C.). |
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