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…of the different words which have changed the main Buddhist counties of the world. The Mons (early), Khmers(Cambodia) and Thai (originally from South China) were contain a range of quite individual cultures with their own art style. The Mon style was originally well…

…. His princehood lasted from 340 to 336 B.C. In 336 B.C. his father Philip II, was assassinated, which made Alexander king. Alexander was only 20 years old when his father died in early 336 B.C. and he took over. Alexander became a military leader in 335…

…daughter and able to use her influence. Xerxes became the king of the Persian Empire in 485BC. In his 25 years of reign he achieved many things. He was certainly not a lazy ruler and her proved this in the early years of his reign with the swift crushing…

…thanks to the Hungarian invasion of 903 or 904 and political intrigue in the early days of the Holy Roman Empire. After that, the Slavic mission in Moravia - which had been established by the missionaries Cyril and Methodius - collapsed, and the population…

…This dispute dates back to the partition of the British Indian Empire, in August 1947, into two independent states, Pakistan and India. At that time there were also around 565 princely states, large and small, which were under British suzerainty but were…

…Roosevelt and later President Harry Truman), would come to understand that Great Britain’s were severe as a result of the war. Not only had they lost their claim to a worldwide Empire, they had also lost their will to fight as a consequence of the six years…

…, cultivating marijuana is illegal in all but a few countries. Known in Central Asia and China as early as 3000 BC, marijuana was used as a folk medicine. In about 1900 it started to be used as a pleasure-inducing drug, and by the 1960s and 1970s its use…

…father decided to isolate his son from the outside world, where he might "see how the other half lived", for the good of his empire and his citizens. Trying to shelter Gautama from all the four sights was impossible, and Gautama ventured out and that is when…

…monks and spiritual dignitaries gathered, strongly influencing the religious shaping of the nation. The value of Serbian Orthodox art and architecture soon bypassed that of the Byzantine empire, with which the Serbian forces frequently warred. Politically…

…) has a slightly greater land area than Uganda and is bordered by several countries. On the north lies China, on the north-east Vietnam, on the south it is bordered by Cambodia, on the west by Thailand, and on the north-west by Burma. These neighbours have…