We can even find its trace in today's China. ... The ancient Chinese calendar system is descended down from old times. A so-called "zodiac cycle" consists of 12 years represented by 12 different kinds of birth animals. What those fortune-tellers normally do was to collect the year, month, date and exact hour of birth of the two young people, as well as their birth animals to make a judgment on whether the two will make a harmonious family without any obstruction to each other. ... As very important information in the process of marriage, a girl's birth date was confidential...

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Many of their products reached neighboring countries such as Siam, Cambodia, India, China, Japan, Borneo and the Moluccas. ... They also spun and wove cloths out of abaca, cotton, maguey, banana, piòa, medriòaque and from silk imported from China. ... The foreign trade was carried extensively with the neighboring countries of China, Japan, Siam (now Thailand), Borneo, Cambodia, India, Malacca, Java, Sumatra and others. ...

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In China, the values weren't enforced, but they were protected by the government. In the second century B.C., Confucianism became the official philosophy of China, thus preserving it for the future. ... I like the fact that Confucius' ideas are still just as relevant today as they were in ancient China. ... The start of Islam is actually derived form Christianity, history books indicates that one night in the year 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from God by way of the angel Gabriel (In Christianity this is the same Angel which brings th...

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