... of the merchant class, the class most despised by Confucian ideals. But, they were given the strictly regulated Ports of Macau and Canton. The only time the people of the West was given a smidgeon of respect was when they presented astronomy and mathematics related advancements. However, it was not that the Chinese were behind in their knowledge, but it was the ... Chinese who had originally thought of all of these brilliant ideas and had given them to the West, thus maintaining Chinese superiority. As long as the people of the West followed the Chinese rules, and remained inferior, the...

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... from China to Europe. Marco Polo was brought up in a very well established family on the coast of Dalmatia his father and uncle had set up a trading out-post on the island of Curzola (just off the coast of Dalmatia). It is not certain whether Marco Polo was born there or the city of Venice ... this period. He had learnt much of Classical Authors, understood the text of the bible, and knew the basic Theology of the Latin Church. He had a sound knowledge of commercial French. From his later history we know that he was interested in natural resources, in the ways of people, as well as strang...

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... music instruments are from China, which is the origin of the Chinese music. Basically there are more than 100 different types of instruments but the most famous one is the drum that normally plays an important role in music. There are actually many kinds of drums can be found depends on the tune and the size that you required. Chinese music ... those happy events, Chinese music is also being performed during the funeral. This time, instead of using drums, we choose to use some instruments that can give a solemn and sorrow sound such as "er-hu", "zhong-hu", and "sheng". When these instru...

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... an island, the total land area is about 36000 square kilometers and the population is about 23,000,000. It lies off the southeast coast China. Between Taiwan and China is Taiwan Strait. To the north is Japan, to the south is Philippines, and the Pacific Ocean is in the ... west. Its shape is like a leaf or a sweet potato. Two thirds of the island is mountains and hills and most of them are in the center of Taiwan. Therefore, most people live in the east and west . Before it was not very convenient for people to ... travel from the east to the west, but the government has built three ma...

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... 661, under the Umayyad 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 ... 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 to China can be traced through the remains of road stations that provided food and shelter for travelers. ... of ...

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... years ago, some scholars believed that people from Asia crossed the Berlin Land Bridge to America and they recorded account of travel and exploration going to countries North, East, South, West of China with dating over 2000 years ago. In Chinese Historical Society of America's museum showed many variety such as Asian's Agriculture, Early Communities, Food, Habitat Life and Fishing. ... established a fishing colony near the mouth of Mission Creek in San Francisco. Many Chinese pioneers made the abalone and shrimp industries. In 1800's, Chinese fishing camps dotted the Pacific Coast. The...

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... 1-Cantonese (Yuh) In the south, mainly Guangdong, southern Guangxi, Macau, Hong Kong. 2-Hakka Widespread, especially between Fujian and Guangxi. 3-Hsiang (Hunan). South central region, in Hunan 4-Kan Shanxi and south-west Hebei. 5-Mandarin A wide range of dialects in the northern, central and western regions. North Mandarin, as found in Beijing, is the basis of the modern stanaard language. 6-Northern Min North ... -west Fujian. (Min Pei) 7-Southern Min The south-east, mainly in parts of Zhejiang, Fujian, Hainan (Min Nan) Island and Taiwan. 8-Wu Parts of Anhui, Zhejians. and Jiangsu. Pho...

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... materials and forest products with China for items manufactured by Chinas artisans. The next main region of trade is found on the East coast of Africa, known as the Swahili Coast. By the 13th century, cities on the east coast began to appear. A few of the main ones being Mogadishu, Zanzibar, and Mombasa. They used Africas ivory, gold, iron, and slaves to trade ... able to get luxury items from China and other areas of the world. The trade route also had a large effect on the people living in the cities of the Swahili coast. The cities became very cosmopolitan, included wide varieties of...

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... only to trade and show off their achievements. To this day, China still is the heart of Asian culture. Trade played a key role in the history of both East and West Africa, for trading helps spread culture, and prosperity. Highly developed trade networks during the Middle Ages turned small villages and merchants into wealthy city-states, prosperous kingdoms and lords. During ... gold for salt, copper, and different kinds of cloth. After the fall of Ghana, Mali quickly rose to power, by 1300 A.D. Mali controlled from upper Niger River to the Atlantic Coast. Mali's Muslim leader, Mansa Mus...

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... his administrations. While he served in Kahn's court he led many missions to China. There were some phenomena that were new to him. The paper money, coal, and the imperial coast were all unexpected and different things to him. The idea of paper taking place of gold and silver was a total shock even to the Polo merchants. Coal certainly was not ... class was taken by horseback with relay stages of 25 miles. The fastest messenger would ride by horse with the special tablet with the sign of gerfalcon. The messenger would sound his horn and wherever he stopped there would be a new horse for...

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... solutions to improve and clarify financial reporting and not false fixes that could put America at a competitive disadvantage for years to come. CRAIG R. BARRETT is chief executive officer of Intel Corp. JOHN T. CHAMBERS is president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems, Inc. SCOTT MCNEALY is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems. ...

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... Western world, and Japanese government wanted isolation due to their belief that they were still superior. This evident isolation, however, led to China and Japan falling behind the West due to the West having superior technology and wealth. Also, Japan needed raw materials that were required to industrialize. Japanese government came out of isolation because in 1853 Matthew Perry came from the ... 's decision to expand their trade and ideals into the western world, and effectively using their own treasury and importing metals to innovate, their contributions helped them maintain indepen...

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... a problem with the trading with the Westerners, because in the 19th century the Japanese did not possess any thing that was desired in the West. Unlike China they had no raw materials and were not very technologically advanced so they didn't have much to offer. They had a few ... ideas that they wanted from China and have some products to trade for technological advancements. Unlike Japan, China's answer to the pressure from the West was being given in the revolts that the Chinese people were experiencing. The biggest rebellion in the 19th century that threatened the Qing dynasty was .....

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... wait on the hillside for the ceremony of shining Buddhas portrait to the first rays of the morning sun. As soon as the sun appears over the horizon, Buddhist horns sound in the hollow. On the hillside forty or fifty lamas, in their red cassocks, open a giant scroll with a portrait of the Buddha. They draw back the white covering cloth slowly ... its golden light. After fondling the portrait people sit on the ground, drinking, playing musical instruments, dancing, singing or reciting mantras. @Tibetan Opera and Linkha Norbuglinkha is located to the west of Lhasa. With a layout similar ...

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... waves - for example, X-rays. The ultrasonic waves can also be used for a variety of medical uses, such as to study and treat hard-to-reach body areas. Uses for ultra sound were first developed in World War II to locate submerged objects; the technique is now widely used in virtually every branch of medicine. In obstetrics it is used to study ... why its uses is so widespread . Animals Bats are the classic example of how animals use ultra sound. Bats send out sound waves using their mouth or nose. When the sound hits an object an echo comes back. The bat can identify an object by the sou...

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... of interdependence there were also negative components like war and spread of disease. These factors of interdependence altered civilizations and barbarians alike. In West Africa between the Senegal and Niger rivers, south of the Saharan dessert the kingdom of Ghana was prospering from a trade going through ... their land. This trade was the salt-gold trade between West Africans and African Muslims. West Africans needed salt to sustain themselves and African Muslims needed gold for their currency. Despite, being landlocked and near a dessert the ... southwest. With this convenient geogra...

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... China can be conveniently divided up into three regions; deserts, mountains, and rivers. Deserts edge the northern and western lands. To the north is the Gobi desert and to the west lies the Taklimakan Desert. The Pamir, Tian Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges form a tight curve near the western borders. There are two major rivers in China; they are Chang Jiang ... , also called Yangtze, and the Huang, also known 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...

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... as the Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion, and the Korean War. By 1898 China was completely imperialized. The Qing dynasty was slowly becoming weaker and weaker compared to the power the West had over China. Almost all countries that have been imperialized have rebelled, however China's response was not like all the others, it was a communist rebellion. During this rebellion China's main ... profitable trade, for that reason they went to war in order to impose the Chinese to allow Opium to be traded. This was one of the first confrontations with the West, and it was a complete failure. The Bri...

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... as the Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion, and the Korean War. By 1898 China was completely imperialized. The Qing dynasty was slowly becoming weaker and weaker compared to the power the West had over China. Almost all countries that have been imperialized have rebelled, however China's response was not like all the others, it was a communist rebellion. During this rebellion China's main ... profitable trade, for that reason they went to war in order to impose the Chinese to allow Opium to be traded. This was one of the first confrontations with the West, and it was a complete failure. The Bri...

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... to gain acceptance among the existing American population. It has been said that immigration is as old as America itself. Immigration traces back as far as the 1500's when the West faced the coming of the Spanish. At that time, the Americas had been settled by the Indians, who were soon threatened by the first immigrants of America. These Spanish conquerors ... China, paving the way for Chinese youth to receive western training abroad. In 1848, California struck gold at Sutter's Mill, California. Chinese immigrants now had yet another incentive to go west in search of their fortune. For...

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This historical and Chinese novel Journey to the West, which is also known as the Monkey, is the most popular book in East Asia. Originally written by Wu Ch"eng-en in the sixteenth century, which consisted of one ... energy when needed on the spiritual path and Sandy who Chinese commentators identify with the qualities of sincerity or whole heartiness. These are Monkeys companions in the Journey to the West. Then there is Monkey who has the "monkey mind" which must be tamed by discipline before the spiritual journey can begin. Monkey and his companions face many demons and monsters ... he f...

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... fact that the soldier was at the bottom of the social hierarchy deterred the Chinese people from joining the military and strongly weakened them when they were challenged by the west. The social hierarchy also affected trade as merchants were frowned upon, and the Chinese government imposed restrictions on them and their families (some sons of merchants were not allowed to ... sit the imperial examination). Due to poor trade, china was unable to advance technologically, and this made the west's invasion of china easier. The social hierarchy was closely tied in with Confusion beliefs, an...

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... seen throughout the world, but one of the most challenging markets that the fast-food chain has cracked is China, due to its eating culture being very different from the West's. The Chinese, thanks to its location far away from Europe, use many different ingredients in their cooking, than what European are used to or have ever seen. Selling western food ... , Beijing and Shanghai. Subway's business model as well as its variety of healthy foods have helped it become the largest and most successful fast-food chain in not only the West, but the whole world. Its prosperous expansion into Chi...

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... an interdependent, reciprocal friendship, and thus feel no hesitation about pursuing tough, win-lose negotiations. Chinese business has become increasingly integrated into the international business arena long dominated by the West, thanks to the country's two decades long open-door policy. Its transition to the rules of the game on the global stage has been hastened by an influx of foreign ... you have made friends through one or two deals. It takes a little more time. Westerners tend to view interpersonal relationships as important, but not prerequisite, to business relationships. In ...

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... become China's strongest relationship in trade, starting very important cultural exchanges. The merchandise that was carried on the Silk Road was basically sold from the East and bought in the West. The Silk Road was primarily used for exporting goods such as silk, porcelain, salt, and sugar. Merchants also imported good like ivory, gold, silver, and cotton. Many people could not ... , and unique products to spread across the nations. The Silk Road was a trade network of routes that went across China to the Mediterranean Sea, allowing economic and cultural interaction between West and Ea...

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