Hannibal Barca's Long March

Colonial era was the time which was considered the beginning of the foundation of America and the world nowadays. It covers the Europeans' discovery of America and how they developed their own system there. During that time, many incidents happened such as the immigration of many European countries to America, the transformation of the land when they arrived, or their conflict with Native Americans... The books The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 of Bernard Bailyn, Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650-1800 of Ruth H. Bloch, and Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 of J. H. Elliot include most of the incidents happening in Colonial Era even though each book tells us about different topic. For example, Bernard Bailyn's book tells us a little information about the life of native Americans before the arrivals of the

At the crest of the Church of the Gesù in Rome, an aureate burst attracts an equivalent infinity of attention to the infinity of light that it emits. Borne of Italian baroque painter Giovanni Battista “Baciccio” Gaulli, this aureate burst is the center of the illusionistic ceiling fresco Triumph of the Name of Jesus. It is initially unclear what is being beheld, but it demands attention nonetheless. By simultaneously depicting and inciting the spectacle of this aureate burst, Gaulli arouses a discussion of the nature of visual representation and the fundamental role of a viewer. Gaulli asserts his position as an artist and emphasizes the viewer’s duty to an image—and to an artist—by demanding the viewer to include themselves among the enamored

While Mao recognizes the work ethic of the Chinese masses, it is obvious that he views them as backwards and being unable or unwilling to adapt to the changing world. This can be seen in the portrayal of Old Tong Bao’s character. When his family was deciding how many of each type of silkworm to raise, Bao was only willing to raise one of the foreign worms because of his own beliefs on the higher quality and standard of their own local worms, even at the cost of having to secure more food for the local worms as they ate more than the foreign one, resulting in the family not being able to purchase food for themselves. Another method that Mao uses in order to present his opinions on the masses to the reader is through the conclusion of the story. After all the hard work and dedication that the village put into raising their silk worms, the different rituals and customs they performed such as planting the onions or the careful use of goose feathers to move the grubs from the sheets to trays, was for nothing as they were able to sell only a portion of the amount that they produced and had to reel the silk by themselves. Unable to sell the silk, Old Tong Bao’s family was considered lucky to be able to exchange it for some rice. This failed silk investment left the family

The Himalayan Mountains as well as the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts isolated the Chinese civilization. This seclusion slowed cultural advancements from taking place in the region. Travelers did eventually arrive in China and brought with them new technologies and goods from outside the region. 1, 3

Witten on Document D, it is said that they had to go through the Gobi and Taklimakan desert, instead, they went along the Silk Road and they went through the mountains instead.

In conclusion to these two different pieces of evidence, they are also able to be compared by noticing the facts that if both these characters did not take into account the opinions or beliefs of others, there would never be a way to be different, or a way out.

A very important similarity between the stories, is that they both are in the view point of a Union soldier in the nineteenth century, during the civil war. The similarities between these two books combine the ideals of battle and war, also the resemblances show how alike the two protagonists of the stories are.

A communist leader, Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist party while, Jiang Jieshi was the leader of a Nationalist Party. Also, Mao believed in Marx’s policy of Socialism. Communists won control of China; won the loyalty and support of the peasants by using propaganda. He led the Long March, where the communists ran away from the Nationalists for 6,000 miles across the

The Soldier’s Tale is a very bloody account of what life was like. For twenty-five years, Seg Lhaton, a Tibetan soldier, had been at battle. The Silk Road was his home during this time. The Tibetan army controlled a large region of the Silk Road between Sogdiana and China. They blocked all trade and diplomatic missions through that region. They only way trade could persist was to go another route through Uighur territory. They, however, charged tolls for safe passage. China and Tibet were at war for years. Many battles were fought that resulted in much blood shed. The story of these battles gives a better insight as to what happened, rather than simply spitting out facts about who won.

Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong were both very similar and still quite different. Each of these great leaders wished to transform his country into something new and powerful. Though their methods of rule were not the same, they each were extremely effective leaders and had enormous impacts on his own country. Russia, before Stalin, could absolutely be considered as being a weak and peasant country. China, before Mao Zedong, was attempting, but failing, to modernize efficiently under Nationalism. These two countries under Stalin and Mao Zedong advanced quickly and went from being smaller and mostly powerless countries to global powers. These advances, however, did not come without sacrifice. Both countries suffered an astronomical number

At first, the Chinese Communist Party adopted the advice from a Russian agent rather than Mao’s suggestions . Due to their poor planing the Communist Party suffered another heavy casualties. Under this condition, the Chinese Communist Party appointed Mao ZeDong to leadership after they had a conference in January 1935. Since then, Mao apply different tactics in this terrible hardship of The Long March. He guided the Red Army to maneuver stealthy. “As the Red army moved away from Xiang, it used twisting movement patterns that made predicting its direction very difficult. Mao also split up the Red Army into smaller units. In theory this made theme more open to attack, in practice, they were more difficult to find in the open spaces on China”(Trueman, n.d.). Mao decided ShanXi, Northern China will be their destination. Under Mao’s leadership, the Red Army overcome the surmount numerous difficulties, at the cost of more than 70,000 men. During the entire battle the Red Army did not have those advanced military equipment like the Kuomintang Party. It took 368 days for Mao ZeDong and his Red Army to marched about 9,000 kilometers by foot in order to

If you’ve been separated from 280 men, captured by indians, being their slave for 2 years, and finding three other people who might of experienced the same things .Then traveling across Texas across a giant mountain range, for 22 months, and ending up in Mexico, alive. Then you have pretty much achieved life's goal. At 37 years old, Cabeza De Vaca did all of theses things. This one big adventure started with one spanish explorer, Panfilo de Narvaez, he had one dream to establish settlements along the Gulf of Mexico. This trip started well, but after some harsh weather conditions, they ended up in modern-day Tampa Bay, Florida. With only 4 survivors, including Cabeza de Vaca, they found land. Until they all got captured by different indian groups. Which obviously went well, but during this period he learned

The Long March began Mao’s ascent into power, with his leadership throughout the retreat gaining him the support of many of the party members. The March’s physical scale gave it a political significance and Mao’ choice of route and vindication of judgement meant he arrived at

First, to make each of their countries stronger economically Ghandi and Mao changed laws and broke rules. During the British rule in India there was a salt tax, which made it very hard for the people of china to buy salt, but it was illegal for them to make their own salt. Because Ghandi did not think this tax was righteous, on. In 1930, March 12th, he and eighty other people walked in the "salt march." The salt

Although William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar provides a largely accurate and incredibly detailed record of the assassination of its namesake, the play is regarded not as one of the Bard’s histories, but as one of his greatest tragedies. Shakespeare’s poignant lyrical interpretation of the fall of Julius Caesar is defined without a doubt as a tragedy by the sorrowful nature of the development, execution, and aftermath of Marcus Brutus’ betrayal of Julius Caesar.