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…are not know, it is known that these attacks killed many people and caused wide-spread terror in the towns. The Black Death: Bubonic Plague In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can…

…geographers were also achieving prominence within and without the Abbasid Empire. The robust Abbasid economy was reaching out to China by means of its sailors and merchants. By the beginning of the ninth century, observation was preferred to traditional Greek…

…too much intervention on our part may well spread Communism through the ex-colonial world rather than thwart it." The two major Communist powers, China and the Soviet Union, were too busy with internal affairs to worry about external adventures…

…by the American submarines weakened the Japanese empire. Meanwhile, the Americans troops and back home were fed the idea that the Japanese would never surrender and the wa! r would go on forever. "But in fact, the Japanese had sent peace feelers to the West as early…

…submarines weakened the Japanese empire. Meanwhile, the Americans troops and back home were fed the idea that the Japanese would never surrender and the war would go on forever. "But in fact, the Japanese had sent peace feelers to the West as early as 1942, only…

…of the conflict that already existed regarding Japan’s expansionist practices, the United States may or may have not needed to have its hand forced in the official designation of war in the Pacific. As the Japanese Empire had grown, so had its control over its…

…. The Russo – Japanese War made Japan a great power during the next quarter of a century. But, China was still an ancient empire. In the late 1920’s, most of China was united under political and military leadership of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. He was born…

…to the early 1970s, China had been suffering from military encirclement and economic blockade. With Nixon's unexpected visit to China in early 1972, Japan first broke the limitation of the Western camp and established formal diplomatic relations with China, followed…

…Hong Kong, British dependency in eastern Asia, on the South China Sea, bordered by China on the north. It is made up of many islands, a portion of the mainland, and a considerable expanse of water surface. It has a land area of 1076 sq km (415 sq mi…

…incident began when the Chinese Revolution ended in 1949. From then, the Chinese government was established as Communists under General Mao. In 1969, China's former ally, the Soviet Union, invaded China and caused serious damage. The Soviet Union had a far…