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    The Sinan Shipwreck is a Chinese cargo ship that sank off the coast of South Korea in c.1323 AD during the Yuan Dynasty. The ship left Ning-po on the Eastern Chinese Seaboard and was carrying cargo to Japan when it wrecked, less than a month after departing from China. The government of the Yuan Dynasty and Mongol Empire was set up by Kublai Khan, the founder of the dynasty. He created a system of bureaucracy that included many different cultures that were a part of the empire. For example, Tibetan

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    This gave way to a complex system of music and ritual that were intertwined and interdependent, with the single aim of bringing harmony to society and ensuring success and strength of the Dynasty. The correlation between music culture, ritual and social values became strictly defined in during the Zhou dynasty (1045-256 BCE) because in the ideal society as conceptualized by Confucius (551-479 BCE), incorporating the Five Phases and other cosmological ideas into the development of music, the music

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    any other year – families getting ready before light of dawn to go and pay their respects to the dead during Qing Ming festival. However, arming themselves with shovels, buckets and other necessities, the Chew family marches solemnly into the peaceful serenity of Woodlands Graveyard at 6 in the morning, heading towards the graves of Chew Teck Huat and Chew Xu Hui. This year’s Qing Ming festival is different and a tint of dread hangs in the air. Teck Huat and Xu Hui migrated into growing Singapore

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    The trading networks of the 17th and the 18th centuries, probably the reason America is here and why we’re Americans. That is because this trade was a new type of trade, international trade or involving the whole world in one network, mass production, diversity, and mixing of cultures. As a result of such trading networks the western hemisphere was now being populated more heavily and the first colonies where starting to form. Documents 2, and 4 describes how Chinese greed for silver changed a lot

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    One might believe that marketing strategies are interchangeable within countries throughout the world; however, one must carefully consider the cultural and economic disparities between those countries. Computer tablets vary in price, performance, available applications, and durability. For example, what one might find inexpensive in the United States could be a month’s salary in another. The primary use of a computer tablet in Mexico is Facebook, while in China it is gaming. Moreover, a significant

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    rapidly (pg. 480). The Tokugawa had risen to power (pg. 480), and the Chinese Empire was expanding at a quick pace, and to a degree that hadn’t been seen since the Han and the Tang dynasties (pg. 479). A big factor in the fast changes was the contact with the west, and the Europeans (pg. 480). At first, both of the dynasties were open and welcoming to the Europeans, but later the leaders of these empires became concerned with harmful effects of western contact (pg. 480). The leaders wanted to protect

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    Traditional Chinese Medicine has been used for years to treat epidemics and outbreaks (Hanson, 2010, p.232), therefore the SARS epidemic and smallpox are treatable with traditional Chinese Medicine. China has a history of managing epidemics and simply put, China is very capable of treating SARs and smallpox. Traditional Chinese medicine is essentially a religious and cultural medical system since it has been around for a plethora of years and has strong discernable religious pillars and ideology

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    Zheng He and Ferdinand Magellan led two very different expeditions due to a number of factors including resources and the treatment of natives. Both men were strong leaders, although they both had different trust levels with their commanders. Zheng He had plentiful resources, although he was not as cautious with resources as he could be. Magellan started his journey with very little, probably leading to his demise. Overall, Zheng He and Magellan started with varying levels of resources and trust

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    able to give a whole new meaning towards the structures in many societies socially. The global flow of silver also created a huge change in the basis of the economy in the Asian and European countries. The flow of silver changed the customary life in Ming China, it shaped the economies in all the regions that were involved, and the flow of silver ruined the currency and Spain’s economy. The increased flow of silver during the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century caused both social and

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    Zheng He Accomplishments

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    Zheng He was a Chinese General who sailed the western seas from China to the east coast of Africa along with other points in the Indian Ocean. Zheng He sailed his voyages 60 years before Christopher Columbus did. The number of ships and the size of his treasure ships were astonishing and unlike anything of its time. Zheng He was credited for sailing over 100,000 miles, greater than any other distance sailed around his time, yet he was almost unknown to the world until recent years. Some think what

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