His name was Hun Sen, but Cambodia was still being overrun by guerrilla warfare. A lot of Cambodians became refugees, there was hundreds of thousands of them. They just didn’t want to be in Cambodia anymore so a lot of families got on boats and sailed into the ocean. They knew the Americans were going to save them. But then in 1991 a peace agreement was signed in Paris. Sihanouk became king again in 1993 because the monarchy was restored. In 1997, Hun Sen didn’t like how things were…
because of invasion of barbarians, lack of military funding, assassination, and weak emperors. One of the most critical reasons the Roman empire fell was because of the invasions of barbarians, like the Goths, Vandals, and the Huns. As the Goths were fleeing from the Huns, they were forced to enter Roman territory. The Romans, fearing the Goths would sack and destroy their land and territory. Although they were extremely successful in the eastern half of Rome, they were defeated in the western…
of Northeastern had a profound effect on me since I was a child. I remember I often heard from my grandma said that when people die, hun soul was leaving the body, and po soul still exists. On the seventh day after the death, hun soul will come back home to take a final look. The living people would prepare a meal and lighting up incense for the hun soul before the hun it came, and then tried to sleep or hide under the quilt to make sure the dead could not see his family members. Otherwise, the…
Although she was not directly summoned to partake in the war, she knew her destiny was to take her father's place. She accepted her fate and knew that the only way to save her father and her country was to join the army and partake in the war against the Hun…
It states, “[He] … considered his new life … better than his old life among the Romans” In Document C. I can infer that some roman citizens were more comfortable with the Huns invading Rome than that of being under the Roman Empire, this shows us the leaders were terrible at controlling their own government and this gave romans no freedom but now after the invasion they have a lot more freedom.. Also it says in Document…
Mulan The story of Mulan starts out with Mulan, a young Chinese woman in the time when Huns roamed the Earth, was studying for the ‘Matchmaker’. However, she was having a hard time recalling all the ways a woman should behave for her husband. She wanted to do well for the examination in order to preserve her family’s honor. Memory (Section) module 24 Studying and Encoding Memories is about the process of encoding, storing, and recalling memories. In order for Mulan to remember all the…
The Impact of the Horse When the domestication of animals originated, the main purpose was food production. With an ever changing world environment, having a herd could be the difference between life and death. As time passed, however, the human species began to realize the folly in their ways. Not only could animals be raised for food, they could be raised for other useful byproducts: milk, clothes, and many other products necessary to life. Inevitably, the need for animals that were more…
so grab some popcorn and enjoy. Mulan, released in 1998, is a Disney movie set in Medieval China, at the time of a Hun attack. Mulan, voiced by Ming-Na Wen, defies the law by dressing as a boy and joining the defending army in place of her ailing father. After proving herself as her alias, ‘Ping’, she is unmasked as a woman and has to prove herself again. She ends up defeating the Hun army, led by Shan-Yu, saving all of China, and honoring her family in an nontraditional way. Definitely worth…
The Fall of Rome Just like it’s beginning, the end of the Roman Empire didn’t happen all at once. For almost 500 years, Rome ruled over the Mediterranean Sea and put fear into neighboring countries with their powerful military and vast territory. Other civilizations didn’t dare to cross them. But all good things must come to an end… What caused the Roman Empire to fall? Invasions, corruption, instability, military weakness, and natural disasters are just a few. There were not only foreign…
The Mayan civilization is among one of the oldest civilizations in the world. The Mayans have covered a large area of eastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Much of what we currently know about the Pre-Historic Maya has come from excavation in these countries and of the few books that survived, the Spanish conquistadors. These Books are The Madrid, Dresden, Paris and Grolier codices are named after the city which they currently resided in. Then there is the Chiliam Balam…