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…. The samurai often gave names to their swords and believed it was the "soul" of their warriorship. The oldest swords were straight and had their early design in Korea and China. The samurai's desire for tougher, sharper swords for battle gave rise to the curved…

…-established and considerably attended beliefs. Indeed, the competition for the faith of the empire was substantial, and Christianity had unwittingly entered a pious hot-bed - a "plethora of paganism" - a religious conundrum of seemingly eschatological proportions…

…a wide range of medicinal properties. In his book, Tea in China, John C. Evans states that ¡§if tea had not possessed a medical reputation, the beverage we know today might never have existed.¡¨ (Evans 19) Research in fact proves that tea owes its reputation…

…in the early twentieth century. It was this rebellion which signalled the beginning of communism in red China. This communism, much like the distorted Stalin view of socialism, is still present today in the oppressive social government in China. Boxer and Clover…

…in China in the early twentieth century. It was this rebellion which signaled the beginning of communism in red China. This communism, much like the distorted Stalin view of socialism, is still present today in the oppressive social government in China. Boxer…

…in the early twentieth century. It was this rebellion, which signaled the beginning of communism in red China. This communism, much like the distorted Stalin view of socialism, is still present today in the oppressive social government in China. Boxer and Clover…

…of God to all the people of the world. Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire where it was made the state religion in the 4th century AD. Later, the Church split into two broad groups - the Western Church under the Pope in Rome and the Eastern…

…. In the early years the French imported opium from India and sold it to Chinese merchants, taxing it 10 percent. The Vietnamese people had been fighting the opium trade against China for a long time, but when the French came in they forced drugs onto the country…

…the Triads were responsible for resistance groups in China (Kaihla, 1991). Buddhist monks in China formed to overthrow invading Mongolians who threatened the Chinese Ming Dynasty. The Triad name was taken after its symbol, the triangle, which represented the three…

…an attack on one of their railways in eastern China and used this was an excuse to invade and take over Manchuria. The League sent Lord Lytton to investigate the conflict. The "Lytton Report" was published in October 1932, causing Japan to withdraw from…