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Parkinson and Morenz also speculate that written works of the Middle Kingdom were transcriptions of the oral literature of the Old Kingdom. [112] It is known that some oral poetry was preserved in later writing; for example, litter-bearers' songs were preserved as written verses in tomb inscriptions of the Old Kingdom.
The Middle Kingdom, a name for China, from the translation of its native Chinese name, Zhongguo Middle Kingdom of Egypt , designation of The Period of Reunification (c. 2000-1700 BC) Middle kingdoms of India , political entities from the 3rd century BC to the 1200s
Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past.
Kingdom 900–1286 AD Cait: Tribal kingdom 25–871 AD Cé: Tribal kingdom 1st century–900 AD Dal Riada: Dunadd Kingdom 501–878 AD Fortriu: Tribal kingdom 1–850 AD Galloway: Kingdom c. 1000–1234 AD Gododdin: Kingdom 5th–8th centuries AD Mann and Isles: Kingdom 848–1266 AD Moray: Kingdom c. 970–1130 AD Pictland: Kingdom 452–850 ...
The Eleventh Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty XI; c. 2150 BC – c. 1991 BC) is a well-attested group of rulers.Its earlier members before Pharaoh Mentuhotep II are grouped with the four preceding dynasties to form the First Intermediate Period, whereas the later members are considered part of the Middle Kingdom.
The chronology of the Twelfth Dynasty is the most stable of any period before the New Kingdom.The Turin Royal Canon gives 213 years (1991–1778 BC). Manetho stated that it was based in Thebes, but from contemporary records it is clear that the first king of this dynasty, Amenemhat I, moved its capital to a new city named "Amenemhat-itj-tawy" ("Amenemhat the Seizer of the Two Lands"), more ...
The early dynasties and the three Kingdoms are blue, with darker colours meaning older. Intermediate periods are red, orange, and yellow. Note that multiple dynasties could reign from different cities simultaneously in intermediate periods and at the end of the Middle Kingdom.
The game Minecraft has been used extensively as a tool to recreate Middle-earth, most notably the servers MCME (Minecraft Middle Earth) [64] and ArdaCraft, [65] in addition to large-scale mods like The Lord of the Rings Mod: Bringing Middle-earth to Minecraft. [66]