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…by Americans to become America's Hong Kong, and a place where the U.S. could get leverage for concessions and spheres of influence in China. In addition, the Philippines would serve as a strategical base for the navy. The Englishman Rudyard Kipling's poem "White…

…but it had established itself as a dominant religion in the rest of Asia, specifically in China. In 854, there was a major discrimination of Buddhists that resulted in the destruction of Monasteries. From then on Buddhism never recovered itself in China. Buddhism…

…). Bodhidharma, the first Chan patriarch in China, who is said to have arrived there from India in 470 A.D., was a master of this text. He also emphasized the practice of contemplative sitting, and legend has it that he himself spent nine years in meditation…

…are both leaf spices. Said to cure the damage done by Cupid s arrow, marjoram is grown in Portugal, Greece, Rumania, and France. Thyme is found as a crop mostly in France and Spain. The history of spices goes back as far as 2700 BC, when a man in China named…

…were missionaries in China; she told Billy Graham the story. The story takes place in China. A Chinese woman was walking in the jungle and a tiger jumped out and began attacking her. The woman heard Jesus’ name from a traveling evangelist. When she…

…oligopolistic control over a wide range of industries. They had developed into conglomerates between 1909 and 1920. By the 1930s, they had firm control over the Japanese economy. The Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and other zaibatsu had seen the potential of China…

…Tiger). The Bengal Tiger is one of five sub-species of the tiger; the other four include Siberian, South China, Indochinese, and Sumataran (About the white Bengal tiger). The eyes on the tiger are large, which helps with excellent vision. The tigers hearing…

…Consensus cultures ü Seek harmony, homogeneity, conformity ü Stabilty within groups is important ü E.g. most parts of Asia (China, Japan, Korea..) v Status cultures ü Honour, respect and loyalty to leaders are very important ü Status-conscious…

…, causing small outbreaks for many years. The effects of this outbreak were on a large scale. In the 14th century, the worst plague of all time occurred, starting in China. This outbreak became known as the Black Death. From China, the plague spread…

…Asia- China, Korea, and Japan and emphasizes meditation and tended to be more polytheistic. Vajrayana (the Diamond Vehicle) was dominant when converting Tibet and other neighboring northern areas and stressed self-discipline and conversion through the study…