Kubla Khan

that final category. With storied leaders such as Chinggis and Khubilai Khan, Mongolian history flows with rich details about excellence in battle and life. Though a few consider them barbaric beings sharing a metaphorical prison cell with the Nazis, Soviets, and Khmer Rouge, the Mongols are much more sophisticated…

the story, the fifty-five cities made me more and more troubled, as if they were just a city of different character. Marco polo visited Kublai Khan when he was 21 years old at 1,275 A.D. In 1279 the Yuan Dynasty unified the whole China to establish the seventh Chinese Dynasty. Western countries have send numerous messengers to meet with Kublai Khan, but Khan only put Marco Polo into Yuan’s historical records. I think Kublai is atractive by Marco Polo’s cities because he is providing a clue to…

Discussion “The individual does not have the power to change a sign in any way once it has become established in the linguistic community; I mean that it is unmotivated, i.e. arbitrary in that it actually has no natural connection with the signified…” (Lemert, 2013, p. 116). Actually I don 't agree on this, I believe that the individual is the highest value, the freedom of him is of the highest. Always the individual is ignored in favour of the group and has no value, and this is the good reason…

The Mongols, when you think of them what comes up, is it the way they used violence to conquer and destroy societies or the way they ruled them? Speculation on the Middle East and Eastern Asia will elucidate in the difference and similarities on the manner they were ruled by the Mongolians in an Interaction with Environment and Economical perspective. How both regions were similar were that during Mongol rule, they pushed taxation on both societies. In Eastern Asia for example, the Mongols made…

Maddie Buxton 28 November 2017 4th Hour Composition English Riding v Western Riding Western and English are two completely different styles of equestrian riding. Not only are the types of events different, but the tack and the types of horses used as well. English riding came about long before western riding. English riding originated in in England and was then brought to the United States. English riding is considered to be the traditional way of horseback riding (English or Western).…

The influence of Bollywood in everyday life According to the Oxford Dictionary, the name ‘Bollywood’ is actually derived from a portmanteau of Bombay and Hollywood; which we all popularly know as the hub of the American film industry. India, the world’s largest producer of films actualizes an average of 1,288 to 1,500 feature films every year compared to films produced by Hollywood which are only a fraction. Although Hindi cinema is just a segment of India’s annual film production, it remains…

My hometown is a wonderful country Kazakhstan, which is well known for its eventful history, distinctive culture and unique nature. Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country and the ninth largest in the world. Kazakhstan is the country, which has never attacked or tried to conquer foreign lands, however, other khanates attempted to gain our lands several times. Thousands of people struggled for freedom of our motherland, and many people died for the homeland’s futurity. During tsarist…

In many places inside the United States rodeo is a very big deal. Watching a person with an animal that’s showing every big of strength and speed God gave them can be the most amazing thing in the world. One of these most terrifying sports in rodeo is bull riding. Bull riding is where a man get onto the back of an animal that weights up to a ton and a half tying himself onto death and nodding his head to go into the most terrifying eight seconds of his life. Many people love to watch this sport…

How barbaric were the Mongols? Im 13th century CE, the Mongols created the largest empire in history. The Mongols were across Asia, the Middle-East, and Eastern Europe. They even extended from Korea to Poland and from Vietnam to Syria. The world called them “Barbarians,” but in ancient Greece they called them “Barbaros” which were meant foreigners. The Mongols are barbaric because they are strategic, brutal, and they are conquers. The Mongols are barbaric because they are strategic with their…

“How Barbaric Were the Barbarians?” I believe that the Mongols were barbaric people during their conquer through Asia because of their killing methods and military tactics. Mongolians had also made some improvement to asia's economic growth. Some could say that because the Mongols were open to all religions within their people group they were not barbaric.But the Mongols were just not completely barbaric because they killed a lot of people for really no reason. The Mongolians had created many…