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    was prosperous and was considered another period of ‘golden age’ after the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Northern Sung was founded by Zhou Kuangyin, who was a military general in the Latter Zhou. In 960, he launched a mutiny Chenqiao county (in current Henan Province). It wasn’t long after that the last king of the Latter Zhou was forced to abdicate. Thus the new Sung Dynasty began in Kaifeng.In that period most of China was unified, however, there was serious political corruption. In 1127, Northern…

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    China Great Wall

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    looks like a long, thin river. Po Hay Sea is located here in the Gulf and the last Gobi continues westward from the south of the desert. The foundations of this structure were first laid by the Vhu Kingdom in the 7th century BC in the province of Henan, but the first set is not very long.In later periods, the attacks of Hun, Tungus and Mongols started to increase and they were very disturbing to these civilizations. In the 3rd century BC, Qin Shin Huang, the emperor of the period, began to…

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    One Child Policy Dbq

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    Shaojie, the vice director of the Population Commission in Henen, stated, “the population controls have kept sulfur dioxide emissions down by 17.6% and [reduced] water pollution by 30.8%. Without [the one-child policy], he says, the average person in Henan would have a third less land and a quarter less forest” (Doc C). With the One Child Policy, less power was needed to support China’s population, lowering the amount of pollution emitted from power plants, leading to less sickness, healthier…

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    Mexico And Aztecs

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    • The Yangshao culture was first excavated in 1921, it lasted to c. 2700B.C.E. - Farmers grew millet, wheat, and rice, and domesticated pigs, dogs, goats and perhaps horses. - They lived mostly in river valleys, and villages were often surrounded by walls for protection. • Soon larger political units were created and the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties came to be. - The Traditional chronological dating suggests that one succeeded another. - Capitals were frequently shifted…

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    The Influenza Virus H7N9

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    Influenza virus H7N9 is commonly known as the avian flu. The avian flu is a viral infection. H7N9 is a subcategory of the type A Influenza virus. H7N9 is predominantly found in poultry. It is rare, but humans can be infected with H7N9. Humans are at risk of contracting H7N9 by handling, living amongst, ingest, and comes in close contact with live or dead infected poultry. The virus can be transmitted via ingestion, direct contact, airborne, and the introduction of contaminates to the mucus…

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    Son Preference Case Study

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    The major activities include several nationwide initiative: a youth volunteer programme; a programme under which journalists of national mass-media organizations travelled through Beijing, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hunan, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces, to advocate for the “Care for Girls” campaign and report on corresponding activities; nationwide competitions; and the publishing of a series of guidebooks for related trainings (Li, 2007, P.…

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    Police Brutality Trends

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    A law enforcement officer from central China’s Henan Province was recently under arrest when visiting her daughter in the provincial capital Zhengzhou. Falsely accused of being sex workers, the woman and her daughter were beaten, tortured and detained for hours by local police. In Germany every year…

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    Shang Pottery System

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    The first recorded Chinese dynasty for which there is both documentary and archaeological evidence. Shang china was centred in the North china Plain and extended as far north as modern Shandong and Hebi provinces and westward through present-day Henan province. The architects of the Shang period built houses of timber over rammed-earth floors, with walls of wattle and daub and roofs of thatch. Pottery objects were abundant, and Shang potters made fired-clay sectional molds for casting bronzes.…

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    Serial Killer Scenarios

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    “I’ve always wanted to be an assassin since I was a kid, but I never had the chance,” said Huang Yong. A serial killer is an unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender over a certain period of time. International serial killer such as Huang Yong a Chinese man who is to be a pederast thrill killer. A thrill killer is someone who needs some reaction on the part of the victim for satisfaction. However, he also has a need for the living and aware victim to be a subject of…

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    In 1979, China introduced it’s one-child policy in order to decrease the nation’s rapidly growing population rate. Couples of the Han Chinese ethnicity were not allowed to raise more than one child. In this article, I will argue that China’s one-child policy was a good idea because it lowered the pollution rate and allowed more space for families, provided better opportunities for women, and supplied young adults with better futures. China’s one-child policy was a favorable act because it…

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