Chao

(noun)

The official banknote of the Yuan dynasty in China.

Related Terms

Examples of Chao in the following topics:

  • Foreign Intervention

    • Several Europeans monarchies, most notably Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain, engaged in military conflicts with revolutionary France in order to take advantage of the political chaos and stop the spread of the revolutionary, anti-royal spirit across the globe.
    • During the French Revolution, European monarchs watched the developments in France and considered whether they should intervene, either in support of Louis XVI or to take advantage of the chaos in France.
    • Their goal was to contain the spread of chaos from France but they failed to overthrow the revolutionary regime and French territorial gains since 1793 were confirmed.

  • Defeat of Persia by Alexander the Great

    • In the ensuing chaos created by Alexander the Great's invasion of Persia, guards had broken in to Cyrus's tomb and looted most of its luxuries.
    • His untimely death threw his vast empire into chaos.
    • Alexander's unexpected death at the age of 32 in 323 BCE threw his vast empire into chaos.

  • The Legislative Assembly

    • The Legislative Assembly, or the legislature of revolutionary France from October 1, 1791 to September 20, 1792, provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making but its tenure overlapped with a period of extreme political and social chaos.
    • Chaos persisted until the National Convention, elected by universal male suffrage and charged with writing a new constitution, met on September 20, 1792 and became the new de facto government of France.

  • Trade and Currency under the Yuan

    • One of the more notable applications of printing technology in China was the chao, the paper money of the Yuan, made from the bark of mulberry trees.
    • But the forest nations of Siberia and Manchuria still paid their taxes in goods or commodities to the Mongols; chao was used only within the Yuan dynasty.

  • Ancient Egyptian Religion

    • Underneath the earth was a parallel underworld and undersky, and beyond the skies lay Nu, the chaos before creation.
    • The creation myth saw the world as emerging as a dry space in the primordial ocean of chaos, marked by the first rising of Ra.
    • The divine ruler Osiris was murdered by Set (god of chaos), then resurrected by his sister and wife Isis to conceive an heir, Horus.
    • This myth set the Pharaohs, and their succession, as orderliness against chaos.

  • Emperor Heracluis

    • Due to the overwhelming crisis facing the Empire that had pitched it into chaos, Heraclius the Younger now attempted to seize power from Phocas in an effort to better Byzantium's fortunes.

  • Thomas Hobbes

    • In his natural state, man's life consisted entirely of liberties and not at all of laws, which leads to the world of chaos created by unlimited rights.

  • The Sumerians

    • The Gutian period (2218-2047 BCE) was marked by a period of chaos and decline, as Guti barbarians defeated the Akkadian military but were unable to support the civilizations in place.

  • Nebuchadnezzar and the Fall of Babylon

    • Starting in 1026 and lasting till 911 BCE, Babylonia descended into a period of chaos.

  • The Middle Kingdom

    • After the initial dynastic chaos, a series of longer reigning, better attested kings ruled for about 50-80 years.