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…, foreigners forced China to make "humiliating concessions." Foreign regiments with modern weapons repeatedly defeated the imperial armies. Tsu Hsi, empress dowager of the Ch'ing Dynasty, searched for a way to purge her empire of these foreigners. Austria, France…

…. The following was what Taoism is to Hua-Ching Ni, a Taoist. Taoism is also pronounced Dow-ism. Taoism is China's oldest native religion. Among many Chinese schools of "thought" it is second to that of Confucianism. Tao or Dao means "way". In order to obtain…

…the coast of China consisting of four main islands (Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyusha and Shikoku) and many more small ones. Most of the people in Japan were of Asian descendants who traveled to the island very early on. In the early 700’s A.D., Japan was ruled…

…Justinian Justinian I had a very significant role in world history. Justinian was a great architect. Justinian was born a barbarian, born of Slavic parents in Illyia. Historians don’t know much of his early years except that his uncle adopted…

…between magnetic north and the direction the compass point is known as deviation. [10] II.History of compass: 1)First compasses. Compass was first invented in china in the 4th Century BC. At first it was used mainly for necromancy and fortune telling…

…and influence. The Chinese refer to this time as The Warring States period. Which did not end until the all of north China was unified under a single empire, the Ch'in dyansty. The Ch'in dominated China from 221 BC to the time of their fall fifteen years later…

…. For when one reads history, or play such games, or imagine a war, one needs to take side. As an avid reader of history, I frequently read about the war between the Han and Huns, between the Song and the Mongols, between the West and China. Inevitably, I took…

…Jeremy Richart Tiananmen Diary Book Review Asian Politics 345 Manju Parikh May 18, 1999 Change is the dramatic art of survival. If one is to survive, one needs to adapt to changing needs and desires. The Communist Party in China was started…

…made it feasible. A characteristic example of a hermit state is Japan, which tried to use its surrounding seas to pursue a policy of total isolation. China, too, was isolationist for thousands of years, albeit an empire at the same time. The British were…

…a vast empire, which made it difficult to govern effectively. People of conquered lands were heavily taxed, but they also received protection from the Roman military, as their land was now Roman land. One of the primary concerns of the Romans was the ever…