Asia-Pacific

had biggest empire at the time. The reason why is because of his smarts with military tactics and leadership. Khan gathered a great majority of travelers and migrant people to his advantage to rule them. He had taken the ethnic groups from Northeast Asia with himself. He ruled a fought many…

culture. The Silk Road did not only promote commodity exchange but also cultural. For example, Buddhism one of the religions of the Kushan kingdom, reached all the way to China. Together with merchant caravans, Buddhist monks went from India to Central Asia and China, preaching the new religion. The first onset of Christianity is connected with the activity of Nestorians. In the 13th century the Silk Road was the route for the new wave of Christian connected with the activity of Catholic…

Mongol politics were similar in their goals of gaining wealthiness. Although there was this main goal, the political rule still varied in China and the Middle East under Mongol rule. In terms of taxes, both areas had initially issued heavy taxation policies to the people of their new captured land. In China though, the heavy taxes did not stay as they did in Persia. When Kublai Khan ruled starting in 1271, he adopted a chinese favorable ruling style. He lowered taxes for the chinese people as…

Mongols, referred to as barbarians, named after the ancient greek word “barbaros” , meant for foreigners, was a negative term referring to people lived beyond the civilization and were savage or evil. Located mainly on the east central Asian plateau, the mongols appeared in different areas, as in Russia and Vienna. Many still consider them mysterious, considering they didn’t have a written language, no permanent homes, no metal works, and not much artifacts to track them down. Only two Mongol…

The Mongols were a nomadic group of people that originated in Central Asia. The leader, Genghis Khan, organized the people and used superb military tactics to conquer others and eventually established the largest empire in the world to this day. The Mongols controlled most of the Middle East and adopted many of the Muslim Empire’s techniques for success mainly influencing society, while varying aspects of their government. However, Islam continued to grow and influence society even under Mongol…

cadavers over the walls of Caffa in the Crimea. While this primitive act of biological warfare might have happened, it was probably not the reason for the actual outbreak of the plague.The Pax Mongolica, a well established trade route, had traders from Asia traveling to Eastern Europe for trade. Over time, traders who were infected spread the disease, rapidly spreading across Europe. The Mongols also burned thousands of Chinese and Middle Eastern books containing records of life and history in…

History Behind the Fortune Cookie We all know what comes after a delicious chinese meal . A small buttery vanilla cookie that has a special treat waiting inside . Not cream or jam or a sweet delite that would usually go inside a cookie , but a piece of paper . A piece of paper that has a fortune on it just for you . We in america are very familiar with this chinese desert , but if we were to go to China , the fortune cookie is unheard of . The exact origin of where the…

Chapter 11 1. Japan is a group of islands about 100 miles off the coast of Asia. Japan is the furthest east country. Because of this Japan experiences the first sun set. That is why it is called "Land of The Rising Sun". The Japanese state was built from many periods which the country had gone through, the paleolithic period which were the first habitants. The Jomon period, the yayoi period, the asuka period which introduced Buddhism and the nana period who formed Japan as a society like it is…

Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that allowed for the relocation of all those living in coastal Washington, Oregon, and California with Japanese ancestry. Those living on the West coast were relocated to desolate places far away from the Pacific Ocean and placed in camps with other Japanese Americans. There were a few reasons for the relocation of Japanese Americans in the middle of February of 1942 and up until 1945 when some were just barely beginning to be released. The reasons…

records to support fishery management. Sixty percent of the trawlers in China are distributed in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. The Yellow Sea (YS) is a semi-closed area of the Northwest Pacific Ocean with an average depth of 44 m. The East China Sea (ECS) lies over the broad shelf of the Northwest Pacific Ocean with an average depth of 370 m. Trawling for Chinese fishery in the two seas mainly occurs in coastal waters or in seawater at depth to 300 meters. Based on our in situ…