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8 Th Century Tang Dynasty
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Pope Urban Ii Fourth Crusade
1,968 wordsIn the year of our lord 1095, Pope Urban II started what we know as the Holy Wars or the Crusades. Over the period from 1095 - 1464, a series of military expeditions were fought to take back the Holy Land, Jerusalem, from the Seldjuk Turks. There were eight crusades which were spurred for many different reasons by many different people that left a lasting effect to the world. These years of bloodshed were led by men of power to bring money, greed, and fame to themselves at the expense of others....
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Ancient Roman Roman Army
1,430 wordsBloody confusion reigned until a group of Persian aristocrats put forward one of their own members, Darius Hystaspes, to bring order to the realm. After securing order within the Persian ranks Darius then looked to the various subject peoples, many of whom were also in revolt. He brilliantly, relentlessly and ruthlessly forced them back under Persian dominion: Babylonians, Medes, Assyrians, Armenians, Lydians, Egyptians, etc. Then he set himself to the task of bring a peaceful order to the empir...
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Silk And Spice Trade
2,030 wordsThe establishment and impact of the Silk and Spice trade The establishment of silk garments in Asia first came about when the silkworm, Bomb mori (moth) residing in the family Bombycid ae, was first discovered for its thread by a great dynasty of China the Han Dynasty (206 BC AD 220). The silk has a continuous-filament fiber consisting of fibroin protein secreted from two salivary glands in the head of each larvae, and a gum called sericin, which cements the two filaments together. Silk weaving ...
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Russian Troops Nation Building
2,441 wordsRussian and CIS peace enforcement in Tajikistan Forthcoming in Lena Jonson and Clive Archer (eds. ): Russian and CIS Peacekeeping (Westview, 1995). Publication no. 1 - 1995, Centre of Russians Studies. Tajikistan is situated between the five historic empires of Asia: Russia to the north, Turkey to the west, Iran and India to the south, China to the south-east. The civil war in the country may have cost as many as 30. 000 people their lives in 1992 alone. Among Russian and CIS peacekeeping and pe...
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Supreme Soviet Soviet Union
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Thousands Of Years Indigenous Peoples
1,251 wordsIntroduction. The Arctic is located in the uppermost region of the northern hemisphere. The region consists of of the area around Greenland, USSR, Canada and Alaska (refer to appendices Fig. 1). The Arctic is mostly covered by frozen ice all year long. This region also surrounds the Arctic Ocean. So far the Artic is a naive environment, humans have not yet fully explored the region. But as people search for the resource, more and more people will move into to the area to take what they can, this...
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Amount Of People Deadly Virus
1,266 wordsIn this world weve seen many forms of death. From natural disasters of unfathomable and devastating proportions to war which shed the untainted blood of soldiers and civilians alike, our mass killings have all been delivered by visibly enormous forces, which have consumed and gratified their lust for life before our very eyes. This was true until the introduction of a killer so small and intangible it left almost an entire nations skeptic and dying, searching for the answers in the heavens and i...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
1,825 wordsJust as clearly, experience shows that the right approaches, applied quickly enough with courage and resolve, can and do result in lower national HIV infection rates and less suffering for those affected by the epidemic. Globally, we have learned that if a country acts early enough, a national HIV crisis can be averted. It has also been noted that a country with a very high HIV prevalence rate will often see this rate eventually stabilise, and even decline. This indicates, among other things, th...
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Nomadic Tribes Han Dynasty
1,463 wordsThe greatest East-West trade route, The Silk Road, was named so by the German scholar Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen in the middle of the 19 th century. Later on it became the information super highway of its age, serving to trade not only goods but also knowledge and ideas between Western and Eastern civilizations. 1. The Silk Road was founded in the second century BC for military and political purpose instead of for trade. A court official named Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions by Ha...
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Han Dynasty Nomadic Tribes
1,629 wordsThe greatest East-West trade route, The Silk Road, was named so by the German scholar Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen in the middle of the 19 th century. Later on it became the information super highway of its age, serving to trade not only goods but also knowledge and ideas between Western and Eastern civilizations. 1. The Silk Road was founded in the second century BC for military and political purpose instead of for trade. A court official named Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions by Ha...
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Four Noble Truths Sentient Beings
2,413 wordsA Little History Buddhism 1 A Little History and One Persons View on Buddhism In India, around the 5 th and 6 th century BC, Siddhartha Guatama, also known as the Buddha, founded Buddhism. It is one of the great Asian religions that teaches the practice of the observance of moral precepts. The basic doctrines include the four noble truths taught by the Buddha. Since it was first introduced into China from India, Buddhism has had a history that has been characterized by periods of sometimes awkwa...
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Four Noble Truths Birth And Death
2,381 wordsBuddhism is one of the biggest religions founded in India in the 6 th and 5 th cent. BC by Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha. One of the great Asian religions teaches the practice of the observance of moral precepts. The basic doctrines include the four noble truths taught by the Buddha. Since it was first introduced into China from India, Buddhism has had a history that has been characterized by periods of sometimes awkward and irregular development. This has mainly been the result of the c...
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Four Noble Truths Birth And Death
2,228 wordsBuddhism is one of the biggest religions founded in India in the 6 th and 5 th cent. B. C. by Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha. One of the great Asian religions, it teaches the practice of and the observance of moral precepts. The basic doctrines include the four noble truths taught by the Buddha. Since it was first introduced into China from India, Buddhism has had a history which has been characterized by periods of sometimes awkward and irregular development. This has mainly been the res...
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Shih Huang Ti Genghis Khan
3,207 words1. Chinese Dynasties Chinese Dynasties Shang: Also called Yin, dynasty that was Chinas earliest historically verifiable state 1766 B. C. to 1122 B. C. A. Reasons for Rise: Unlike the early accounts of history by the Chinese, there is archaeological evidence of the Shang, who built their cities in northern China around the eastern parts of the Yellow River. For this reason they are called the Yellow River civilization. They were a bronze age people; bronze-working seems to have entered China arou...
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Hindus And Muslims Council Of Ministers
1,876 wordsKalpesh P. Patel Dr. Cashel-Code Global Economics 271 February 1998 50 Years of Independence; 5000 Years of History INTRODUCTION The Republic of India possesses tremendous contrasts and enormous ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity. Since independence in 1947, the Indian civilization has expanded in every facet from its increasing population to its to its intertwining cultural and social systems. There are over 1600 languages, nearly 400 of them are spoken by more than 200, 000 people. Ethn...
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1 000 Population Ottoman Empire
3,717 wordsEconomy is Economy I. Introduction Economy is a science including many changeable subjects when researching in a certain vicinity. To explain basic economic regulations of the world in a homogeneous structure does not fit the economics nature. Even if economy is a process that can show diversified changes, behind these there are concrete reasons that effect long term economic programs that should not be missed, which is historical process. When researching a county s economy, the priority should...
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Han Dynasty Roman Empire
454 wordsThe Silk Road is the most well-known trading route of ancient Chinese civilization. Trade in silk grew under the Han Dynasty in the first and second centuries. Originally, the Chinese trade silk internally, within the empire. Caravans from the empires interior would carry silk to the western edges of the region. Often small Central Asian tribes would attack these caravans hoping to capture the traders valuable commodities. As a result, the Han Dynasty extended its military defenses further into ...
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Performing Arts Film Festival
1,157 wordsChina, Korea, and Japan have been historically close for centuries, thus accounting for their numerous common artistic traditions. From pre-Christian times until the 8 th and 9 th century AD, the great trade routes crossed from the Middle East through Central Asia into China. Hinduism, Buddhism, some knowledge of ancient Greek, and much knowledge of Indian arts entered into China, and thence in time into Korea and Japan. Perhaps before Christ, the Central Asian art of manipulating hand puppets w...
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Fall Of The Roman Empire Han Dynasty
2,037 wordsThe establishment and impact of the Silk and Spice trade The establishment of silk garments in Asia first came about when the silkworm, Bomb mori (moth) residing in the family Bombycid ae, was first discovered for its thread by a great dynasty of China? the Han Dynasty (206 BC? AD 220). The silk has a continuous-filament fiber consisting of fibroin protein secreted from two salivary glands in the head of each larvae, and a gum called sericin, which cements the two filaments together. Silk weavin...
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