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Asian History essays:
Why Didn't China "Discover" The New World?
... money which made their country wealthier, to make tools, clothing and weapons. However, just because the Chinese had more and better things than the Europeans does not mean that they should have discovered the new world . The European countries may have been a lot smaller than China ...
Meiji Restoration the reforms in education maintaing the new regime
... education system. The goal of the Restoration period was to learn from the western countries by borrowing the best technology available, whilst avoiding the mistakes traditionally associated with industrial development. With the power of hindsight, Japan successfully enriched the nation ...
An Analysis of the Vietnam War, focusing mainly on the American Perception of the war.
... Vietnam war started long before the 1960's and 70's involvement of the United States and Communist China. The story of Vietnam dates back to the early 20th Century and this is how most Vietnamese view Vietnam in the 20th Century. For Americans however, Vietnam is a cold period ...
Road to Bangladesh: Analysis of the major event that led up to the formation of Bangladesh. Interpreter of the Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.
... even speak the same language: West Pakistanis spoke Urdu but East Pakistanis spoke Bengali. Nevertheless, they were lumped together as one country after Partition. As Lord Mountbatten prophesized, that within twenty-five years, these two regions would wage war ...
Nation-state
... population? We are talking about the problems of the present and the future, not the problems of the past. Most countries in Africa were originally established as European colonies. After World War ...
Persian Rugs and Their Stories
... Even in the national anthem of Iran, there is a line which states ... started the rug-weaving tradition. These tribes had to persevere extreme hardships to stay alive. The same perseverance is found in Iranians nowadays. Today about 15% of Iran's population ...
Korea: A Peninsula Divided
... Population growth has been staggering, increasing by over one million since 1954. Although the nation has been experiencing a decline in the rate of population increase recently, the country is still densely populated. People have flocked to the urban areas for better jobs, better education ...
Man of The Millennium: mahatma gandhi
... starting with the rural areas of India, which accounted for 85% of the population. He encouraged the peasants to spin and weave to supplement their meager incomes. He himself eventually moved to Sevagram and centered his program there. When World War Two started ... National ...
The Ainu Culture of Sakhalin Island - How has tourism affected the Ainu and their way of life?
... populated core Japanese islands. Unfortunate as it was for the Ainu, the Japanese tended to keep to the fertile valleys, thereby limiting cross-culture contamination. Since the Second World War, however, Sakhalin has been an oblast (province) of the Union ...
My Lai Massacre.
... five-year-olds, women, very old men, no draft-age people whatsoever. That's what you look for, draft-age people. It came out in the interrogations that my crew and myself went through. My gunner's big questions were, "Were there weapons ... Vietnam war ...