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1. The Indian Ocean Basin Trade routes connected Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and East Africa. Long distance sea trade moved across a web of routes linking all of those areas as well as East Asia (particularly China). On the other hand, Central Asia was the largest empire in the world history, controlling Tibet, Northern China, and Persia. Also, Islam would flourish in Central Asia/The Chinese transferred the skill of paper making. Through the Mongols, Islamic mathematics and astronomy spread…

Missionaries and traders that traveled Silk Road, during the late Han Dynasty 202 BC – 220 AD, brought Buddhism to China. By the time Buddhism hit China, the Indians had already practicing the religion for over five hundred years. The faith really took off when the Han Dynasty began to fall, which ended their strict beliefs of Confucius. There are two kind of Buddhism, the Theravada Buddhist have strict meditation and reading of teachings of Buddha. This kind of Buddhism is most popular in Sri…

Ancient china is one of the most interesting topic with many ancient sites. Some of them are the Great Wall, The Forbidden City, The Terracotta Warriors and The Summer Palace. These sites that I just said I will talk to you about what you will see, what dynasty it is from and why it is important. China is a popular county today and with so many ancient sites. The greatest military structure in the world with the length of 21,000 km and that can be seen from space welcome to the great wall of…

Pui Tak Center: 2216 S. Wentworth Pui Tak Center was once the On Leong Merchants Association Building where the On leong group used to be. The society also once resided in Mott Street in New York's Chinatown. The Chinese started coming to Chicago in smaller numbers after 1870, After the 20th century less than 1,200. Until the 1940s when federal laws only allowed men to enter with only a few exceptions, chinatowns over america were populated with chinese men. Groups called Tongs were formed…

In today’s routine, it is pretty common to find an Asian cuisine restaurant or more specifically the popular Chinese food. Somethings isn’t there question of how Chinese food boom in the United States. Before food comes is the people that have that ethnicity. The most of the first Chinese came to the United States during the Gold Rush. They went to build the railroads, and developed the agricultural industry. Now that the US constitution makes everything else being equal, people from all over…

Theresienstadt: What did it do to the Jewish Children? As of October 1941, the concentration camp Terezin became a Jewish ghetto, but life never got any easier for the Jews. In fact, more sprung up. Children were suffering just as much as the adults. But small children can’t work. They were killed. To get away from death, older children had to work and stay as strong as they could until they die of exhaustion. Children are very strong. They are always coming up with new ideas, while…

1. What did you learn from others’ presentations (5 different topics)? I learned that in China live a lot of animals as well as people. Most are common animals that live in other countries but some of the animals that live in China I have never even heard of. Some other thing I learned were the sports of China. I never knew anything or much less heard of anything such as Shadow boxing. Before taking this Mandarin Class or listening from the presentations I never even heard anything called…

The country of Japan was an agricultural set of islands. In 513 Prince Shotoku came to power as a regent for Empress Suiko. He sent more people to sail over to China and Korea to gain new teachings and ideas. A big idea that came from India was Buddhism. Buddhism was a big part of lives in Japan. Japan also learned the government structure of China and copied it. One of the big parts that Japan copied of China was the social structure. Japan made a little adjustments to it but it ended up being…

Chinese Americans The United States is a big country which has enormous influence on other countries. This in fact attracted many individuals to come out of their societies and move to the US. Thus, the US society can be explained as the salad bowl societies, where different cultures exists in one place, but they don’t overrule each other. One of the most important of these groups are Chinese Americans. However, being in a community with a majority of Chinese students attracted me to…

The argument of this essay poses the question: was the Qing dynasty to be considered Chinese? According to the “New Qing History” scholars argue that the Manchu rulers maintained their ethnic identities and thus the Manchu-centered Qing was fundamentally different from the proceeding Chinese dynasties. However, I support the argument that the Qing dynasty was a real Chinese dynasty through semantics alone despite their success through sinicization, if not the prime example of a Chinese dynasty.…