Trade along the Silk Road and sea routes propelled the song empire into a time of order, power, and economic prosperity. Many things that were made in china like porcelain and silks were traded along the Silk Road and sea routes. ... Without gunpowder the world history would be inevitably different. ... The Silk Road and sea routes defiantly affected the modern world today. ... In the 1st millennium the many types of interdependence like trade and spreading of disease, for better or worse, brought the world closer together and continued to connect the world through the second. ...

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The geography of the land has a basin, rivers, seas, and other geographic landmarks. China's lands are bordered on the east by the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. ... The Taklamakan Desert sometimes goes by the name 'Sea of Death.' ... It is the second largest desert in the world and is a home to species of poisonous snakes. ...

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This is a paper on Marco Polo's life, discovery's, and how he changed the world. ... Throughout this paper I will tell you why he was a great explorer, and how he opened up the world. ... Marco often visited the port and dreamed of going on sea adventures. ... The sea journey home took 2 years and 600 passengers and crew died. ... This opened up Europe to Asia because the Europeans learned that there was more to the world than just their country. ...

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BILATERAL TRADE AND ECONOMICS According to Angus Maddison, a British economist and international scholar on macroeconomic history of the world, "India and China were competing with each other in the first sixteen or seventeen centuries of the Christian era. ... Moreover, the Chinese strategy to occupy important sea routes from the South China sea to the Strait of Hormuz has been summed up as the 'String of Pearls' strategy. According to a report sponsored by the director heading Rumsfel's office on future-oriented strategies, "China is building strategic relationshi...

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The Silk Road was the world's first international highway that connected the two most powerful empires' China and the Roman Empire. ... There had been a sea route but it did not provide a relatively secure route, on longer there were issues with the ships strength, scurvy, and pirates. ... 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 East....

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Diving into the sea of Little Women, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, and many more fascinating works of fictions, I began to improve my reading and writing skills. ... During winter, the sky was as dark as the bottom of the sea as I made my "journey" to school. ... Outside the world of study, I also have been interactive in peer resource program. ...

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MDS has two categories, ground based and sea based. ... The sea based will intercept incoming ICBMs in the same fashion as the ground based system. ... Lastly, the system gives the United States of America too much world dominance and power. The U.S is already the strongest richest nation in the world, to gain more power would make it imperialistic. ... If a missile defense system is set up in the U.S, every other nation in the world will lose all the leverage they have on the U.S (nuclear, ballistic and cruise missiles). ...

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The changes in transportation in the past thirteen hundred years have caused many changes in our world. Many changes in the modes of transportation, such as the advancement from foot power, to horse power, to engine power, from around 700 C.E. to the present have contributed a enormous impact on people, societies, and cultures, including the osmosis of people, building of different societies, and the sharing of different religions and ideas with people from all around the world. ... Astrolabes were used to determine their location out at sea. ... Many Europeans have traveled abroad to ...

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The world's largest hydro project, the Three Gorges Dam in China is currently under construction. ... The Three Gorges Project is the world's largest hydro project. ... Opposition around the world argues that the project would be a social and environmental disaster, having seen the tragedies of large dams elsewhere in the world. ... The world's third largest river, the Yangtze, carves its route through the mountains of southwestern China, springing from the glacial mountains of northern Tibet. ... From there, the river widens and meanders across southern China's vast fer...

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After the discovery of a sea route from Europe to Asia later in the 15th century, the Silk Road, along with other land routes were gradually abandoned. ... Also, world's first published book, the "Diamond Sutra," which was a Buddhist book on wooden blocks with text and illustrations. ... With Khan, China became the largest land empire in the world. ... Mali's Muslim leader, Mansa Musa's wealth was well known through-out the world. ... By trading with the Chinese, the European society and the United States have formed a good political relationship with China, thus Chinese imm...

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To The south conquered northern part of vietnam, the west as far as Aral Sea and a high amount of Tibet under their control. ... Interaction The Grand Canal, one of the worlds largest water work projects before modern times, facilitated trade between northern and southern China, making an abundance supplies of rice and other food crops. ... These cultivators enriched the soil with manure and composted organic matter, as well organized extensive irrigation systems, reservoirs, dikes, dams, canals, pumps, and water wheels (pg 384). as well extended into naval technology, which allowed sea lanes ...

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In "No Name Woman, Kingston often becomes caught up in her own fantasy world, in which she is separated from reality. ... The story of "No-Name Woman" serves as a backdrop for Kingston's own experience growing up as a Chinese-American, torn between the world of Chinese customs and traditions that surround her. ... Kingston tells us that;" Woman looked like great sea snails- the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs" (10). ... Kingston states; "Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants b...

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It is the world's largest country in population and the third largest in area. About a fifth of the world's people live in China causing it to be very cluttered. Ireland is a vast land of blue mountains and forest parks, mazy lakes and windswept moors, white Atlantic sands, an inland sea. ... The only reason that china is such a great exporter to the world in terms of food is simply because of its mass. ... China is one of the worlds leading exporters of rice, potatoes, and many other crops. ...

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Living in the late period of the Zhou Dynasty during chaos and internal hostilities led Confucius to try to benefit the world by creating and spreading his beliefs of integrity and morality. ... Confucius also taught that everyone had their own place in the world and was expected to respect and obey those above them, especially for their elders and ancestors, and were not to question the status they were given in life. ... Within each element of Yin and Yang was the seed of the other, and when Yin and Yang worked in harmony together all was good in the world. ... He ruled springs, rivers, and ...

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Living in the late period of the Zhou Dynasty during chaos and internal hostilities led Confucius to try to benefit the world by creating and spreading his beliefs of integrity and morality. ... Confucius also taught that everyone had their own place in the world and was expected to respect and obey those above them, especially for their elders and ancestors, and were not to question the status they were given in life. ... Within each element of Yin and Yang was the seed of the other, and when Yin and Yang worked in harmony together all was good in the world. ... He ruled springs, rivers, and ...

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Though I have had several vacations that bring good memories, none of them compares to the trip I made to China because I was able to experience winter as well as taste authentic Chinese/Mongolian food and view some of the greatest and spectacular panoramic sights in the world. ... We entered the visitors' center to put on more coats, like the driver suggested because we were going to be at a location that was about two thousand and four hundred feet above sea level. ... I recall getting an epiphany about how diverse the world is, and how I was looking at life with my eyes half closed th...

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In the world today, images of beauty are everywhere you turn. ... This style had very much in common with that of French prostitutes who had provided company for many American doughboys during World War I. ... True to her name, Twiggy weighed ninety one pounds on a five foot seven frame.This new image caused a tremendous transformation in the fashion world. Things got so out of hand that in 1968 there were riots in Chicago at the Democratic Convention, there was near revolution in Paris and feminists burnt bras, make up and high heels to protest the Miss America Beauty Pageant (Beauty Worlds: ...

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More a mode of living than an actual theology, Taoism asks that each person focuses on the world around them in order to understand the inner harmonies of the universe. ... In contrast with the beliefs and practices of the priesthood, most of the laity have "believed that spirits pervaded nature...The gods in heaven acted like and were treated like the officials in the world of men; worshipping the gods was a kind of rehearsal of attitudes toward secular authorities. On the other hand, the demons and ghosts of hell acted like and were treated like the bullies, outlaws, and threatening stranger...

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Lake saif-ul-malooq , the worlds most beautiful and miraculous place I've ever seen . ... It was very freezing out there, even though it was the mid of march, but the fact that we were about 8000 feet above the sea level justified the cause of that temperature .We went inside our camp and took some snacks and coffee . ...

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Few in the cosmetics and fashion industries dispute that the potentials for foreign infiltration into burgeoning Chinese markets are enormous. To date, however, many foreign companies have found themselves able to attract only small and slowly growing pockets of Chinese consumers. One of the main...

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Ivan Evseev states in his work "Encyclopedia of cultural signs and symbols" that all the cultures in the world colors and their combinations are constituted in symbolic language with a highly diversified semantics. ... Next I will list the meanings of various known colors, the primary and secondary ones along with the colors white, black and gray in terms of the different cultures of the world, as Carole La Pan puts it. ...

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