The Silk Road was an ancient trading route that connected China to the West. The route carried all sorts of goods and ideas between the two civilizations of China and Rome. ... The Silk Road was an important element in the history of "Asian Trade". ... I feel that this chapter was very well written and due to completeness I give it an A, because they authors did an outstanding job describing the Silk Road, the significance it had in Asia's History and its impacts. As well as the authors doing a great job on the Silk Road, the also did a very good job on describing the Indian Ocean Mar...

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Americans musical history is very short when compared to Japan, India, Africa, and China. We don't know much about our history until about 590-604 A.D. when people began to write music down, the first music that was written down was songs sung in churches. ...

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I will begin with the history of dragons, since most things are reported in chronological order. ... Two of the biggest known types are the Western Dragon and the Chinese Dragon. ... The other popular kind, the Chinese dragon, have long, scaled, serpentine bodies with four legs with a mane and antler-like horns. ... The drake is a Western-type dragon, but it has the skinny body of a Chinese dragon. ...

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In Africa therefore, the development tends to have a very short history, with development programmes only being set up in the late 19th century. ... In view of the "laws of history" which Marx claimed to have discovered, Marxists mostly see development as inevitably involving a long and painful process in which capitalism matures, self-destructs and is transcended. ... Uganda, Mozambique, China, Vietnam, India, and Poland are all examples of countries where, within the past two decades, policy and institutional reforms have sparked rapid development. ...

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Livingstone first planned to become a medical missionary in China, but the Opium Wars made China a bad place for a westerner with good intentions. ... Liberia's recent history is a sad chapter for a nation whose founding was steeped in freedom. ...

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