Forbidden City

Examples of Forbidden City in the following topics:

• Architecture and Urban Planning under the Ming Dynasty

  • The Forbidden City remains important in the civic scheme of Beijing, with its central north-south axis remaining the central axis of the entire city.
  • The Forbidden City is located within the larger Imperial City in Beijing, which is in turn encompassed by the Inner City.
  • Almost all roofs in the Forbidden City bear yellow glazed tiles, with only two exceptions.
  • Location of the Forbidden City in the historic center of Beijing
  • The Forbidden City is located within the larger Imperial City in Beijing, which is in turn encompassed by the Inner City.

• The Decorative Arts under the Ming Dynasty

  • One of the 340,000 pieces of ceramics and porcelain held at The Palace Museum of the Forbidden City.

• The Role of Foreign Trade

  • Map of East Asia by the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in 1602; Ricci (1552–1610) was the first European allowed into the Forbidden City.

• Slave Codes

  • Slaves were forbidden to leave the owner's property unless they obtained permission or were accompanied by a white person.
  • Freeing a slave was forbidden, except by deed, and after 1820, only by permission of the legislature.
  • Slaves were allowed to hire their services and live apart from their masters, and free blacks were even allowed to live in the city and operate schools.

• The Peace of Westphalia

  • The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster that ended the Thirty Years' War.
  • The peace negotiations involved a total of 109 delegations representing European powers, including Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, Philip IV of Spain, the Kingdom of France, the Swedish Empire, the Dutch Republic, the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire and sovereigns of the free imperial cities.
  • Issuance of unrestricted letters of marque and reprisal to privateers was forbidden.
  • France retained the control of the Bishoprics of Metz, Toul and Verdun near Lorraine, received the cities of the Décapole in Alsace and the city of Pignerol near the Spanish Duchy of Milan.

• Freedom, Inequality, and Democracy in the Gilded Age

  • They were often barred from certain stores, or forbidden to use lunchrooms, restrooms, and fitting rooms.
  • In particular, they moved to Northern cities during what became known as the Great Migration.
  • They had to make great cultural changes, as most went from rural areas to major industrial cities, and had to adjust from being rural workers to being urban workers.

• The Free Exercise Clause: Freedom of Religion

  • The case involved Adele Sherbert, who was denied unemployment benefits by South Carolina because she refused to work on Saturdays, something forbidden by her Seventh-day Adventist faith.
  • City of Griffin.
  • The Supreme Court held that cities could not require permits for the distribution of pamphlets.

• The Gilded Age

  • The Gilded Age saw impressive economic growth and the unprecedented expansion of major cities.
  • The businessmen of the Second Industrial Revolution created industrial towns and cities in the Northeast with new factories, and hired an ethnically diverse industrial working class, many of them new immigrants from Europe.
  • Gilded Age politics, called the "Third Party System," featured very close contests between the Republicans and Democrats (with occasional third-party political campaigns by farmers and labor unions), civil service reform, organized movements that enlisted many women working for prohibition and women's suffrage, the strengthening of big city machines, and the transition from party to modern interest-group politics.
  • With the rapid growth of cities, political machines increasingly took control of urban politics.
  • They often were barred from certain stores, or forbidden to use lunchrooms, restrooms, and fitting rooms.

• Gradual Withdrawal

  • Backed by U.S. air and artillery support (American troops were forbidden to enter Laos), the ARVN moved across the border along Route 9.
  • On September 10, the South Vietnamese flag once again flew over the ruins of the Citadel of Quảng Trị City, but the ARVN offensive ran out of steam, conceding the rest of the occupied territory to the North Vietnamese.

• Toward Free Labor

  • Displaced from their land and unable to find work in the cities, many young people signed contracts of indenture and took passage to the Americas.
  • After indentures were forbidden, the passage had to be prepaid, giving rise to the inhumane conditions of Irish 'coffin ships' in the second half of the 19th century.