... themselves and their families in extreme economic situations. Such activity is reflected mainly in the sphere of small 4Excerpt from article of Dr.Anara Tabyshalieva "Increasing gender inequality in Central Asia- entrepreneurship. In some cases, it has strengthened the position of women in families. The majority of women leaders are concentrated in areas where the majority of employees ... and other levels of power structures, has sharply decreased. Many women refuse to participate in electoral contests fearing unequal and biased reactions to female candidates. The post-Soviet Central As...

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... community without dividing into the blocks. Role of china as a balance between superpowers decreased. Processes of globalization and regionalization intensified spreading of relations across the borders in eastern and central Europe. NATO and European Union accept new members from the communist bloc and develop their internal policy towards Russia. Exactly in this period of time China choose a road to ... states will support its geopolitical goals mutually. Such as supporting nuclear policy of US in the North Korea by China and supporting Taiwan unification by US. China's geopolitical p...

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... caliphs, Islam dominated one third of the Old World and at its height it reached from the Atlantic Ocean on the west, across North Africa and the Middle East, to central Asia on the East. The Abbasid Caliphate, who replaced the Umayyad in 750, was distinguished by an impressive cultural florescence that successfully synthesized many of the achievements of subject peoples ... paramount importance, and commercial contact was established with the Vikings and the peoples of China, South-East Asia, India, East Africa, and sub-Saharan West Africa. Overland caravan routes through Central Asia ...

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... trading cities on the Volga River. In 1262 a war broke out on their only path back home preventing them from returning home, so they proceeded farther east to the great Central Asian trading city of Bukhoro (Uzbekistan). Then sometime in 1965 the brothers Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, joined a diplomatic mission which was going to the court of, Kublai Khan, the ... most likely traveled overland through Armenia and Persia (now Iran) to Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, north through Persia to the Oxus River (now Amu Darya) in Central Asia, up the Oxus to the Pamirs, across the mountai...

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... idea of racism or inferiority based on color that might have existed near the millennium and later years. Out of the steppes of central Asia came the Magyars; 10 tribes of nomads that reeked havoc in western and central Europe. And like many barbarians before them their social beliefs would be pacified and they would give in to civilization and Christianity. Centuries ... ...

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... 's nearby, so forth allowing for a more professionalized army that set out to conquer lands that would suit the Mongols to expand into powerful power bases such as northern china and central Asia, for more far afield conquests such as Persia and later the Middle East. The way the Mongols conquered was also a large determining factor to their significance in the Middle ... ...

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... from their trade and tributary dealings with the Han dynasty. They then redistributed these products throughout their realm which then in turn helped to create a demand for Chinese goods in central Asia. The constant trading of goods helped establish a reliable network for the exchange of trade goods. Thus the nomads became middlemen in trade between different groups of sedentary people. This ... ...

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