Marco Polo

Venice, a city known for its extravagance, was made so wealthy because of the Venetian’s profitable salt trade. Marco Polo was from Venice, and that wealth was what allowed him to travel the Silk Road and bring ideas back to Europe- like pasta, for example. Salt has played a hand in the American, French, and Indian Revolutions, The American Civil War, the discovery…

American ship captain Samuel Barret Eades first heard of the specimen from a Dutch West Indies trader, who claimed it was a genuine mummified mermaid that had been caught by Japanese fisherman. So intrigued by this bizarre discovery, Captain Eades sold his ship in order to purchase the specimen for the exorbitant price of six thousand dollars. Then he bought passage on a ship to London, and brought his new acquisition with him. He had high hopes of making a fortune exhibiting the mermaid. Eades…

continuity, can serve to play the religion’s role. In addition, with the discovery of land besides Europe, Europeans are consciously categorizing characteristics and territorializing differences among nations. For instance, in Marco Polo’s description of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo claimed that the festival of Easter is European and Christianity is the best religion. The territorialization sets the foundation of nations being limited for mass print capitalism and language to reinforce the notion. “A…

In the period from the Tokugawa era to the post-WWII era, Japanese society saw a dramatic shift in the prevalence of Japanese militarism and the existence of the traditional Japanese war mentality. Deeply rooted in samurai culture, Japanese militarism served as a foundation for Japanese society throughout the Tokugawa era; the class system gave way to a ‘warrior-elite’ class that dominated the social hierarchy. This pervasive warrior-dominated culture persisted into the Meiji period. Japanese…

retreat with the leadership team. We went to the youth pastor's wife’s parents two thousand acre ranch outside Bennington Oklahoma. On this ranch they had cattle,swine,horses, and a few chickens. While we were there the other youth and I played Marco Polo in the lake. Roy one of the adults cooked a chicken fajita, it tasted amazing. That night the men slept in the shop while the women slept inside the ranch hands apartment. while people were trying to sleep there were hundreds of june bugs dive…

Mary Shelley once wrote in her book Frankenstein, “Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful”. Today, we know Frankenstein as one of the first science fiction novels and an occult classic. Shelley wrote this novel when she was 18 while in Switzerland with her husband, sister, and their friend Lord Byron in the year 1816. She came up with the idea for Frankenstein during a scary story contest with her peers. This novel has many complex and interesting themes that not only link to the time…

with several other trading routes to help guarantee success. Having a successful merchant class is the key to success in any city because it means more money and more money means more things that a merchant can sell which in turn means more money. Marco Polo talks about the merchant areas having every type of fruit and vegetable in all sizes. The next thing that led to the city’s success is its size and protection. The city held around 2 million people during that time which made it the world’s…

1. Genghis Khan-born in 1162; elected as Mongol khan in 1206; expanded the Mongolian empire by first conquering the Jin Empire. He died in 1227 while at war with Tangut Empire. 2. Kublai Khan- Grandson of Genghis Khan; it took him 11 years to conquered China; established Yuan dynasty in 1271 and kept Chinese traditions; rebuilt capital in Zhongdu and named it Dadu. 3. Mansa Musa- Mali's devoted Muslim and greatest ruler; known for a more religious governance; visited Mecca which helped spread…

Han Hsin flew a kite over the enemy palace to determine how far his soldiers would need to dig to enter the palace. In 549 A.D., Emporer Wudi of China used a kite during war to request reinforcement. The kite remained a secret from Europe until Marco Polo brought stories of the kite back from China in 1295. America 's history consists of a day when Benjamin Franklin (1752) attached a key to the string of a kite, flew it during a storm, and discovered electricity. From the far east to the middle…

The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, is widely considered to begin with the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July 1937 and end with the Japanese surrender in September 1945. I would argue that to understand the motives as to why Japan invaded China, it is essential to grasp their previous history of conflicts and tensions, beginning with the Japanese claim of Taiwan from China’s Qing Dynasty after the First Sino-Japanese war in 1895, right through to the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. This…