North China

modestly at the city of Ashur (known as Subartu to the Sumerians), located in Mesopotamia north-east of Babylon. The Xia Dynasty 2070 B.C.E. – 1600 B.C.E. is the first dynasty to be described as independent in both the official Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial Bamboo Annals, which record the names of seventeen kings over fourteen generations lasting 471 years. Xia Dynasty was the first dynasty of China. The region of Xia dynasty was near Henan and Shaanxi province. Yu the Great was…

showed the impact of religions and beliefs on different people. Lastly, stirrup with invented, and it was used to make the saddle more stable for people to ride on. 5) The regions that were involved in the Indian Ocean Maritime System were the South China Sea, Chinese and Malays, Indians, Persians, Arabs, and Greek. 6) The evidence that exists to support the claim that the mariners involved in the Indian Ocean Maritime System were more advanced than those who sailed in the Mediterranean, is…

(Yaprak, 2012). 3. Case study Case analysis #2: Apple in China Background Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation, which designs, manufactures and sells personal computers, consumer electronics and software, and provides related services. The company has experienced a tremendous growth from 2001 when it has introduced its iPod mp3 player (Jurevicius, 2013). Apple Inc. is considered to be the most successful electronics company in the world. Internal environment analysis –…

Its total area is 416 square kilometers. According to the Yangcheng Lake East and Kunshan, the west by the Taihu, north of Wuxi and Changshu, south of Suzhou City District, industrial park and high-tech zones. Xiangcheng District is one of the most developed areas in Suzhou and even in the Yangtze River Delta. It has 14 high-speed entrances and exits. Beijing-Shanghai…

1. Introduction to the case 1.1. The construction of the bridge Yangmingtan Bridge was a major construction project of the Heilongjiang province. It is the longest river suspension bridge in the north of the Changjiang River in China, so the government gave it great attention. It breaking ground on 2009 December 5th and completed at a marvelous speed and opened to traffic on November 6th, 2011, with an estimated investment of 1.882 billion Yuan (about 300 million dollars) . Considering the…

order to set a foundation for what is successful and what constitutes failures. At times these learning’s may not always be as prosperous as expected however with time, civilizations grow to prevail as the Qin and Han dynasties showed in imperialist China for more than two millennia. In order to do so, the First Emperor of the Qin Empire, Qin Shi Huang in 221 BC, recognized that in order to have successful civilizations one needed to establish a vast working system such as those of the Greeks…

As early as the Han Dynasty, the shooting art has enjoyed its popularity in the north area. In the portrait stone of Han Dynasty unearthed nowadays, we could find people riding in different postures, which reflects the rather developed level of the riding and shooting. According to the distribution of the portrait stones, the stone portraits of archery of the Han Dynasty unearthed is generally concentrated in the north area. This phenomenon also proves the popularity of the archery in the…

Liu’s Civil War The life of Liu Dapeng is a fascinating individual parallel to Chinese history and is captured strikingly in The Man Awakens from Dreams. The book, based on Liu’s diary which he kept faithfully through some of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history in the last hundred and fifty years, captures the struggle of awakening into a world of illusion. The irony in Liu’s writing is that the illusion is as much a result of his own worldview as it is of rapid change in Chinese…

In the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911), many missionaries came to China with Western ideas following the invasion by Western powers such as British imperialists. Therefore, many Chinese students and intellectuals inevitably came into contact with Western techniques, religious ideas, and history. However, there always have been many differences between the original European ideas and the Chinese understanding of them. Under the hegemonic power of western civilization, Chinese scholar Kang Youwei…

tea in USA is not so popular but popular in the UK? We should really get to know tea better and find out what is it all about. Let’s first explore tea history with one popular Chinese legend. Legend tells that Shennong, the legendary Emperor of China and agriculture’s inventor and Chinese medicine was drinking a cup of hot water because he ordered to do so. 2737 BC when leaves were blown from a tree into his water, it changed colour. The emperor drank it and was surprised by its taste and…