Late Imperial China

on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that led to the entry of the United States into World War II. Japan’s invasion of China in 1937 and its occupation of French Indochina in July 1941 caused the United States to respond that same month by stopping Japanese assets in the United States and declaring a restriction on petroleum shipments and other war materials to Japan. By late 1941 the United States had severed practically all commercial and financial relations with Japan. Though Japan continued

idolatry. However he bestows kindnesses upon the Christians, and these two years past I am abiding with him.   Document 6 Source: Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant who may have worked for the Yuan dynasty, the Mongol rulers of China, late 13th century. This excerpt is a description of Hangzhou, a southern city that was part of the Yuan empire. There are within the city ten principal squares or market places, besides innumerable shops along the streets. .... On the nearer bank ..

Brière.[5] For a while, Quốc also lived in Milan, Italy, working as waiter in a restaurant. The restaurant is now a traditional Lombard-cuisine temple and harbors a portrait of Ho Chi Minh on the wall of its main dining hall. In the Soviet Union and China In 1923, Quốc left Paris for Moscow, where he was employed by the Comintern, and participated in the Fifth Comintern Congress in June 1924, before arriving in Canton (present-day

Islamic Spain, and more recently, a number of nations have used the US dollar as their local currency, a custom called dollarization. Until the 19th century, the global monetary system was loosely linked at best, with Europe, the Americas, India and China (among others) having largely separate economies, and hence monetary

sickness that was spreading along Mongol trade routes through central Asia to both china and Western Europe. This sickness was called the bubonic plague. The bacteria was infecting people when infected fleas bit them. Bubonic plague was one of the most feared diseases pf the ancient and medieval worlds. 2.City-states led to The renaissance in Italy: Renaissance society first took shape within the merchant cities of late medieval Italy. Italy had a cultural advantage over the rest of Europe because

Many say that the USA foreign policy is questionable because in most cases war is not chosen as a first resort. China and Russia, and international community tried to oust United States from two important US commissions. These new rift opened in 2001 when United States was blamed about inserting their dominance on weaker countries. The US the international community came together to stop this predominance in world affairs (). Is America only intervening when it suits to their self-interest? That

Tikal Temple Country/Culture: Guatemala, Mayan Time Period: Early Classic to Late Classic - 300-850 CE. Temple Type: Mayan Civilization Description: Tikal is the ruins of an ancient city found in a rainforest in Guatemala. Cultural Context: The name Guatemala, signifying "place that is known for timberlands," was gotten from one of the Mayan vernaculars talked by the indigenous individuals at the season of the Spanish triumph in 1523. It is utilized today by pariahs, and additionally by most subjects

and heat waves are increasing. Alternatives to fossil fuels that pump carbon dioxide into the air seem hardly controversial. The controversy is about what can be done to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and how can we get it done. It is already too late, but how can we reduce the scale of the damage that is already upon us? The argument presented in some books, articles, and internet sources seems presented like some polite controversy with no clearly correct

Biography of Catherine the Great One of the most interesting, hard-working and powerful people to grace the pages of history during the eighteenth century was Catherine II, Empress of Russia. Historians have not always been so kind to her memory, and all too often one reads accounts of her private life, ignoring her many achievements. The stories of her love affairs have been overly misinterpreted and can be traced to a handful of French writers in the years immediately after Catherine's death

skills. (Daidoji, Ratti, and Cleary 6-10) Swordsmanship was taught in a similarly relentless manner. The most recognized weapon of the samurai throughout history was the katana. The oldest swords were straight and had their early design in Korea and China. A katana was never worn without its companion sword, the wakizashi; it was a shorter sword with a broader blade. Together the two swords are referred to as daisho, meaning "large and small." The word dai (large) represents the katana and the word