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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…

American traditions. It is important to know where you came from because not only would you understand your family better, but you would understand yourself better. Both my mother and my father were born in Cambodia, a country located in Southeast Asia, to Chinese-Cambodian parents. Both of their families immigrated to America in order to have a better life not only for them, but for their children 's future. Heritage is something to be proud of in our diverse nation. Sophan Chevone…

countries, however in other countries it is creating harm. Globalization is creating pollution, a decrease in employment, it's making people lose their tradition, and it's making people be abused at their work. In the article The Global: Sneaker From Asia to Everywhere, it explains how pollution affects our environment. Some factories dump toxic waste into rivers or streams, which expose deadly fumes to our air. If geographers believe that the world may not have enough resources for the whole…

grasslands of central Asia and they lived in moveable houses that they called yurts. The people knew little about mining and they didntdid not care anything about farming. But one person changed it all, this person change the way the Mongolians worked and his name Temuchin. Temuchin was born in 1167 on the Mongolian plains and in 1206 he won the leadership of the group and then was given the name Genghis Khan and he began to grow larger. The Mongols army swept across much of Asia, the Middle…

The best examples of colonial architecture in Malaysia are found in Melaka (Malacca). Melaka and George Town have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed these towns with a specific multicultural heritage; of government buildings, churches, squares and fortifications. Melaka demonstrates the early stages of this history originating in the 15th-century Malay sultanate and the…

by some scholars to have been “the greatest of centuries”, in truth to some notable cultural highlights of major importance. During this time period arose to the world, the nomadic peoples of Central Asia, the Mongols. The Mongols conquered places in Russia , Northern China, Persia and Central Asia. Yet in their triumphs the Mongols were and still are classified as the most barbaric of the “barbarians” to have ever reigned over the world, because of the way in which they obtained their success…

Silk Road. Also, the favored idea by the Europeans, of a route linking many lands together to trade, was also an event that led to the Silk Road. 2) The Mesopotamian border entrepôts and Samarkand, are examples of the impact that the Silk Road had on Asia because goods from other countries were bought and sold throughout different countries, and stops were made along the way to trade with others. 3) The types of products that were traded via the Silk Road that went from east to west, are…

“many employees normally have to work between 10 to 12 hours, sometimes 16 to 18 hours a day and over time if workers cannot work the additional hours they face penalties, verbal abuse and dismissals”. By moving its production sites to places like Asia, Nike is able to pay workers a low minimum wage, also allowing the corporation to dodge responsibility for the treatment of its work force. Nike have managed to devise a plan to escape the responsibility and liability of insuring that it…

SILK ROAD AND BEYOND Imagine a place where you can exchange ideas and goods from places such as Chinese, Persians, Somalis, Greeks, Syrians, Romans, Armenians, Indians, and Bactrians back in 114 BC –1450 AD. The Silk Road a heaven to most merchants and a dream to the most consumer.The Silk Road a network of connecting trading route that went from around China to Eastern Europe and was around ‎6,400 km in size.The Silk Road was a bunch of connecting trading Route that was Started by the Han…

transporting reserves of food and supplies. This made them extremely vulnerable to the environment. During the 13th century is when the Mongol Conquests took place. This resulted in the extensive Mongol empire, that covered much of Eastern Europe and Asia by 1300. The Mongol Conquests had the greater long-term impact on Europe and its outside world when being compared to the Crusades. In this essay, I am going to explain the rise of the Mongol power,…