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Asian History essays:
Nation-state
... those days the term did not refer to a country, a government, or a state. It referred to a people. There were dozens of different German tribes with no central authority, but together, they still constituted the Germanic nation. Nations were the sum total of a given "people" who were part of ...
Meiji Restoration the reforms in education maintaing the new regime
... of hindsight, Japan successfully enriched the nation and strengthened their military. To fully appreciate the improvement in education brought about by the Meiji Restoration , it is important to examine the state of affairs in the Tokugawa period, from 1600 to 1867. Albert Craig has commented on ...
An Analysis of the Vietnam War, focusing mainly on the American Perception of the war.
... nation divided at home. One million Vietnamese citizens were slaughtered and the nation began to grow as soul as many questioned the governments actions. In the 1920's and 30's Vietnam was a colony of the French Empire at the very end of colonialism. This was the European colonialism ...
Why Didn't China "Discover" The New World?
... on land. The Chinese land was a lot bigger than the small European countries. Chinese armies were bigger than those of the Europeans. They had a bigger population which gave them the advantage of having more people to work on farms, build buildings that were ...
Persian Rugs and Their Stories
... national anthem of Iran, there is a line which states, "Enduring, continuing, eternal." This clearly shows that Iranians can endure much hardship. Such perseverance, fortitude and ability to endure hardships, perhaps, stems from Iran's very first settlers who were ...
Road to Bangladesh: Analysis of the major event that led up to the formation of Bangladesh. Interpreter of the Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.
... of this civil war and because of this civil war, millions of refugees flooded into India. Thus, India was heavily involved in this civil war as well. Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, implored the UN, the United States and other western nations ...
Korea: A Peninsula Divided
... nation to become industrialized and to increase foreign trade. These sweeping economic changes altered the outlook for both Koreas. Many of those changes still go on to this day and still greatly affect the Korean way of ...
Man of The Millennium: mahatma gandhi
... citizens to use ahimsa (non-injury) methods of protesting, but they protested violently in some areas, leading to the killing of 400 Indians. By 1920, Gandhi was extremely influential among Indians. He quickly reformed the old Indian National ...
The Ainu Culture of Sakhalin Island - How has tourism affected the Ainu and their way of life?
... of Japan, 2003). Thus a conflict over the use of land developed which has yet to be resolved. Although in the 19th century, the conflict was over agriculturalism and subsistence, whereas modern conflict is assimilation versus preservation, the basic tenets of discord were ...
My Lai Massacre.
... were hit," commented Hugh Thompson at a later questioning. The incident remained unknown to the American public until the fall of 1969, when a series of letters from Hugh Thompson to government officials forced the army to take action. As the gruesome details of ...