Safavid dynasty

Confucianism and Daoism were two ancient religions that influenced traditional Chinese ink painting and calligraphy’s style, creation, and design. The Chinese worship their ancestors and came up with the idea of Confucianism similar to the idea of the Egyptian pharaohs whom believed in the afterlife. With great respect for tradition, innovation is not important; thereby painters often produced old artwork of an older master whom they admired. This reveals the concept of Confucianism: respect the

Japan in the Sino-Japanese war, many nations such as Japan, Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy and Austria began to encroach and claim areas referred to as the “spheres of influence” and demanded exclusive trading rights. With the Qing dynasty now weak and unable to prevent foreign domination, “Christian missionaries became more aggressive”[1]. The uprising began with the peasants who had grown tired of all the foreign influence, not only with the fight over ownership with respect to trade

Growing up in the large country China, I have noticed the nation has suffered from many difficulties beginning in the early 1793’s. In my opinion, everything that has happened to China between 1793 and 1912 have been nothing but damaging to China’s lifestyles. Some of the harshest events that China experienced were the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, and the Boxer Rebellion. Some people would not agree that these series of rebellions hurt our country and some do agree. China was one of the

The dominant image of the unification of China during its earliest dynasties was Qin Shihuang Di who was also considered as China’s first emperor. He unified China when Qin Dynasty was able to conquer the rest of the warring states, gaining economic, political and military powers of the entire China. Because of the harsh ways of Shihuangdi, the dynasty faced rebellions from the citizens which led to its own overthrow. It was also criticized by schools of thought like Daoism and Confucianism. The

wards time vary a great deal person to person, and cultural differences with regards to time serve only as a touch point of consideration when dealing with patients/families (Li, 2008). BIOLOGICAL VARIATION The leading cause of death in Chinese-Americans are diabetes mellitus, accidents, heart disease, stroke, and infectious disease. Compared to the general U.S. population, the Chinese are twice as likely to have diabetes type 2, it is also 5 -7 times higher in the Chinese Americans as it is in

Charlemagne, who was called Charles the Great, was born on April 2nd, 742 in Aachen, which would be Belgium today. Charlemagne Father was Pepin the Short who was the first Carolingians to become King while Charlemagne mother was a Frankish queen. Charlemagne as born into a royal family, and he was the youngest son that his parents had and one day he would be king of the Franks. Charlemagne’s family’s religion was Roman Catholic and so was he. As for Charlemagne’s education he didn’t have much of

Taoism (also known as Daoism) is a Chinese philosophy attributed to Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE) which contributed to the folk religion of the people primarily in the rural areas of China and became the official religion of the country under the Tang Dynasty. Taoism is therefore both a philosophyand a religion. It emphasizes doing what is natural and "going with the flow" in accordance with the Tao (or Dao), a cosmic force which flows through all things and binds and releases them. The philosophy grew from

How do stories teach us about other cultures or our own? From the stories, I chose, ‘The Man from Snowy River’ by Banjo Patterson and ‘Guo Nian’ by Chinese Mythology both stories show totally different cultures form what we live in today. In ‘The Man from Snowy River’ they were chasing horses which escaped from the paddock and the horse owners chased down the horses on their horse. Now a day’s paddocks are well guarded and if horses did escape the owners would chase the down with trucks and maybe

Ahmed Chalabi was an Iraqi politician serving as Iraq's deputy prime minister between the year 2005 and 2006. He also served as the oil minister in the same period. Chalabi was born on 30th October 1944 in Baghdad. In 1956 he left with his family due to worsening political situation and spent the most time in the United States of America and United Kingdom. He was married to Leila Osseiran, the daughter of Lebanese politician Adil Osseiran. The couple had four children. He pursued Bachelor of Science

The Great Wall of China is a beautiful, very well known, landmark. The great wall was built by the Qin, Ming, and Han dynasties, and took hundreds of years to construct. The wall was built to to provide security, intimidate/ impress visitors, and enhance the glory of china. Without the wall, China wouldn't be nearly the same nor as influential as it is in today's world. First of all, the great wall of china provided security for the citizens and soldiers of China. According to the background essay