... to bring them to his court. In April of 1275 the Polo's finally reached the capitol of Kublai Kahn. The Polo's have traveled a total of 5600 miles and it took them 3 and a half years. Marco says it was the greatest moment when he met the Kahn. Marco became a favorite of the Kahn. ... had a unique way communication system. Messages were either taken second-class, first class, or On His Imperial Majesty's Service. Foot runners who had relay stations 3 miles apart took second-class messages. This was and easy way to cover the distance of 10 days in about 24 hours. First class was taken by ho...

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The great Wall The Great Wall of China is one of the great wonders of the word. It's more than 2,000 years old. It stretched 4,500 miles, from the mountains of Korea to the Gobi Desert; it was first built to protect an ancient Chinese empire from enemies. The oldest section of the Great Wall was begun ... upon layer, and the wall slowly rose 4 inches at a time. After the downfall of the Qin Empire, China was one land. Even Qin Shi Huang's Great Wall started to fall apart, suffering from years of neglect. The other group that also builds the great Wall was the Han in 206 B.C. They came to pow...

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... hips She ain't nuttin but a hoochie mama Oh I love those big brown eyes and the way you shake your thighs, acting like you"re so damn cute..." Rap music with lyrics like this play on the radio and in home stereos every day. Rap music pounds messages of sex and violence into the minds of young adults leaving behind their sexist ... rap and its messages may relate more to fears of the black community than the actual nature of the lyrics or music."(Power of Music). It is hypothesized that rap lyrics, such as Ice T's "Cop Killer," receive more negative criticism than other white lyrics, suc...

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... foreign culture acts an important role. In the past, local films and music dominated the youth market. Most of them are action films and films about simple love affairs. The lyrics of songs were mostly positive and supportive. For instance, the song "under the Lion Rock" encourages us to be brave to overcome the difficulties and " Strong" tells us that everyone ... the new ideas like sexual equality, independent female characteristics and disobedience of unreasonable situations. To conclude, it is a hard fact that Hong Kong young female is more open-minded generally. Apart from the reas...

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The ancient Indus and ancient Chinese civilizations each brought their own huge contributions to the human species, yet we only know so much about them. Despite being roughly 2000 miles apart from each other, the two civilizations had somewhat similar characteristics such as their specialization of labor, large trading markets, huge advances in the sciences and arts and their forms of ... toward sciences and art while the Indus had huge advancements in the world of modern city planning and architecture. Despite their contributions, they had huge differences and similarities separating them a...

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... Dynasty played a significant role in coming up with the idea for it. The Great Wall of China would benefit China greatly because it would serve as defense against nomadic tribes. Apart from being protected by nomadic tribes, the Great Wall would be a benefit for China's forever. Other countries will have a tough time penetrating within the Chinese territory because of all the ... construction. The finished product came to be stretch over 5,500 miles and would tower up to 8 meters high (Walker 43). Although several other dynasties put in time and effort in constructing the Great Wall, Qi...

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... escape the earth's gravitational pull. To assist the shuttle into the atmosphere the SRBs burn for about two minutes and generate about 3.3 million pounds of thrust each at launch (3,512 miles per hour). Hold on a second, it's not that easy! What happens after all the fuel is burnt? There is an elaborate process on how the SRBs actually burn and return ... of fuel. Once the SRBs are all out of fuel they are separated from the shuttle and left to fall to earth. Each SRB is separated at an altitude of 2.9 miles and deploys the pilot parachute. At an altitude of 1.3 miles the three main pa...

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... as The Yellow River. The Gobi Desert helped the Himalayan Mountain to protect the northern west part of China. The Gobi Desert measures to about 1000 miles across one way but is about 500,000 square miles. The Gobi Desert is the third largest deserts after the Sahara Desert and the Arabian Desert. The Gobi Desert's temperature in the summer is a sweating ... are Chang Jiang also called Yangtze, is central China. The definition of Yangtze roughly means "Long River" in Chinese. The distance of the Yangtze River is about 4000 miles long and is banked by fertile flood plains which are added...

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... commonalities but still have a lot differences. There are few similarities between China and America.First of all, China and America both over 3 million square miles. China has 3.705 million sq. miles and America has 3.806 million sq. miles. Second,they all have big population of people . China has 1.357 billion and America has 316.1 million.And China play an important role in the ... ...

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... feet high and more than a mile wide., equivalent to 18 nuclear power plants. At peak load, 26 turbines will generate 18,200 megawatts of electricity It will create a reservoir 370 miles long, with a system of locks designed to bring prosperity through maritime commerce to China's interior( Zich 8). Many of the inhabitants of the Yangtze River will be forced from their ancestral ... ) The Yangtze River has shaped the landscape of China over of the centuries and has created different cultural and territorial boundaries. The river and tributaries encompass over 700,000 square miles. The riv...

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... the nature of art, and influences brought about through contact with other cultures. The aesthetics of Japan developed in a unique fashion, partly because of its geographic location, 100 miles from Korea and 500 miles from China. Its isolation by the sea helped protect Japan from foreign invasion and allowed its rulers to control contact with other nations. Over the centuries, when interactions ... ...

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... mentioned above. Over the last 4-5 years strong rise in FDI has stimulated the Chinese economy to such an extent that apart from having a vibrant domestic market, the Chinese have emerged as one of the largest exporters in the world. The country, apart from being one of the largest consumer durables market, is also the one of the largest telecom services markets. As ... ...

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... the civilization, as well as to surrounding empires via the new roadway systems in both Rome and China. By the end of the Roman period, they had build thousands of miles of travel routes throughout their empire. The Chinese relied on the well-known silk road that covered a large area of Asia as a transportation route. Ancient Rome is also known for ... ...

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... be able to cook and many more. A major role was to make sure there was enough clean water to be able to cook, clean, wand wash. They would even walk miles just to have clean water. A perfect example of Confucian that took place was in the film of Mulan. Throughout the film there are lots of scenes where I visualized where filial ... ...

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... and the Communist Party (57). This absurd type of patronage arises later in the memoir when, in the heart of winter, it becomes honorary for youth to travel hundreds of miles on foot to "holy"" places. Parents willingly and happily sent off their children for months at a time with a possible chance they would not return (110). This dependency on Mao's love ... ...

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... and pray where God was manifested. Chuddha was a Kashmiri monk. He had been practicing medicine for fifteen years in Dunhuang. He lived in the monastery next to the cliff, twelve miles outside of town. He entered the monastery as a child. He didn't receive his full precept of abstinence until his mid-twenties. He did not enter the monasteries as a declaration of ... ...

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... the fascinating and strange world across the ocean. These include things and people such as Marco Polo, Confuscious, The Great Wall, and other ancient tales that come from thousands of miles away to bring us a slightly blurred vision of a far off land. Deeper scratches, or marks, that have influenced my visions of China are that of a communist or Red China. As ... ...

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... a new leader and government. Before they signed Prince Fumimaro Konoe, Japan was working to sign a peace treaty with their neighboring rivals, China. But on July 8, Japanese were throwing a party eight miles west of Peiping, China. Soon, Chinese troops started firing bullets and a huge war erupted between the two forces. For years afterwards, the two fought and Japan, after rebuilding the economy ... ...

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... irrigation systems. The Aztecs constructed irrigated fields, and archaeological evidence proved that Moche civilizations had a complex network of canals and aqueducts that linked them with places as far as 75 miles away! Both East Asia and the Americas had a main capital city, although they had different uses in each place. In East Asia the Tang dynasty had the Chang"an, which ... ...

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... suspecting of North Korea again developing a new nuclear facility. Shortly after this was spotted the North Koreans test launched two-stage ballistic missile capable of reaching such distances as (950 miles) Japan. In November, 1998 the U.S. asks to inspect facility near Yongbyon. They then only demanded 300 million dollars for inspection, which the U.S. rejected. Since post-World War II times, North ... ...

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... . He thought that such a canal would help the east/west trade and move navy ships faster. The canal shortened sea route from New York to San Francisco by nearly 5,000 miles. It took nearly 10 years to finish a great success. There was and industrial impact on Africa. Some aspects that affected this were the demand for raw materials, and a need for ... ...

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... linked China and the west. According to recent maps, we know that the Silk Road ran through the Persian Empire where present-day Afghanistan is located. It stretched for 4,000 miles, linking China to the Fertile Crescent. The Chinese traded silk with the westerners for new foods, such as grapes, figs, cucumbers, and walnuts. Other accomplishments Wudi did to increase economic ... ...

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... . We see that Marco Polo was in every way a hero of his time. He was quite capable of comprehending cultures completely alien in sprit to his own. Traversing thousands of miles on horseback on unknown over steep mountains open to bad weather, wild animals and uncivilised tribe men. Marco Polo went though some struggles to get were he got but I think ... ...

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... themselves. There were conflict within their own empires. To top them off, the nomadic raiders attacked them. That's what set them off and sent them to their downfalls. Thousands of miles separated the empires of Rome and Han China but neither one influenced each other. Yet, they had so many similarities. The Empires lasted a long time, but it had to end ... ...

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... 't live for others, but work out their own destinies. Moreover, the ability of Americans to be independent is stronger, and they reach independence earlier than Chinese. Most young adults live apart from their parents in the U.S. Some of them pay their parents rent to stay at home. Almost all of Americans work a job during college and they want to be economically ... ...

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