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…Between 1300 and 1700 drastic changes in Europe and Asia ultimately established a new trading network which created a coherent world market directly linking America and Asia for the first time. In the 1300s epidemics of bubonic plague swept from China…

…Introduction China's ambitious efforts to reform and restructure the banking system began in earnest in 1998 and are accelerating rapidly as the accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) become true. This pace reflects the industry…

…Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, who later became known as Pearl S. Buck after she married, was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She went on to live most of her life in China where she grew up seeing the hardships the country faced…

…Due to the "Great Leap Forward", China suffered in the largest famine in human history in 1959-1961 and caused 30 million people starved to death--about to cover the number of births. It made an anomaly in the demographic model that to have a sudden…

…Historian felt that the League of Nations criticizing China's education system was one cause of the Cultural Revolution. She also thought that communism in the Soviet Union was a cause of the Cultural Revolution. The Soviet Union was the first socialist nation…

…The policies of Pericles contributed to the expanding power and influence of the Athenian Empire because they unified Athens and made it the center point of Greece. They influenced other Greek Poleis through policies such as the introduction…

…In 1989, government corruption and rising inflation caused much of China's population to respond to a student revolt for democracy. This ignited an historically significant confrontation with Chinese Communist Party authorities. On June 3 and 4, 1989…

…and besieged Pompey until Pompey fled (March 49 BC) with his fleet to Greece, and then turned towards Spain, which Pompey's legates were holding, and pacified that province. Returning to Rome, Caesar held the dictatorship for 11 days in early December, long enough…

…and China to disarm the Japanese. However in the North the Chinese didn't recognise French Colonialism in Asia, so on top of disarming the Japanese the Chinese also armed the Viet Minh, preparing them for a conflict with the French which was seemingly unavoidable…

…and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His father was a semi successful business man, and his mother had sizable trading investments in China. Franklin was born into a sheltered but pleasant and gregarious home. He was taught at first by a governess and then we went…