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Their ability to organize large and strong military forces led to the collapse of the Umayyads and the rise of the Abbasid Caliphate.

The thesis of the paper is that the importance of the military increased greatly due to security threats faced by the dynasty.

This paper examines the anti-Semitism and pre-World War II Zionism movement, consequences of the Holocaust, and ignoring of the Arabs' interests as the major factors for the creation of the state of Israel.

It is against this backdrop that this paper explores the Meiji restoration and also uses pictures and image arts to appreciate the differences in time and models that were dominant during the imperial rule.

The period between the 1500s and the 1900s was signified by the intense relations between China and the Western. As China warmed up to the West during the 1900s, economics remained the key point of [...]

The Al Saud clan occupied the Diriya settlement in Najd, and since the early 1700s, a member of the Al Saud family ruled over Diriya.

This paper includes insights into the history of the island and provides a brief analysis of the significance of the site as well as the debate on the development of the human society in general [...]

Ichikawa's film "Fires on the Plain" provides evidence of his contribution to the changing of perceptions towards Japanese involvement in military activities in the region and the world12.

However, slow growth of modernization and the emergence of radical opposition to governmental reform signified that the Afghan people are still attached to conservative patterns already in the second half of 20th century, with the [...]

The same thing cannot be said if the only structure of authority in the city is a garrison filled with battle-scarred soldiers and a general who may not be sympathetic to the plight of the [...]

This essay will explore the history of the Qing Dynasty by comparing and contrasting the state and the Chinese society during this dynasty to the earlier periods in the history of the country.

The actions of the learned and the Chinese administration from the start of the People's Republic to the Hundred Flowers Bloom era in 1956 were characterized by a certain trend, which included the division among [...]

In 1857, the Bengal defense force was reportedly the largest despite the fact most national troops were incorporated in the three presidential militias of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras.

Eroding economy and weakened power and authority of the central court are among the reasons behind the fall of the Tang Dynasty.

The poorly defined Heian marriage system denied the women the ability to react and advocate for their human rights, Seidensticker Edward.

Another important aspect of women oppression is captured in the kind of relationships that women shared with men in the pre-communist China.

The book gives an account of the massacre and atrocities that the Japanese army committed against the Chinese in Nanking between 1937 and 1938.

Before the Second World War, the term Middle East was used to refer of the region between the Far East and the Near East.

The situation was made worse by the humiliating treaties and the rise fall and defeat of the various rebellions such as the Taiping rebellion and the Muslim rebellion which culminated in the foreign occupation of [...]

The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han covers the history and cultures of China between 221 BC and 220 AD, the period during which the first two dynasties of imperial China ruled and which the [...]

According to Huffman, the Meiji government developed nationalism in Japan. Furthermore, under the Meiji regime, Japan was able to expand and had a stronger military.

The Edo period also known as the Tokugawa period is the period between 1603-1868 in the Japanese history when Japan was under the Tokugawa Shogunate rule who had divided the country into 300 regions known [...]

In the Mao era, the law did not allow polygamous marriage in the Chinese community and through such, the sale of young females within the society ended.

It is possible to apply the same principle to the relationships of the parent and the child, where the child should always respect the parent and follow their orders and advice.

Both Zedong and Xiaoping joined the CCP in the 1920s and aimed to end China's weak position. From this point of view, communism in both USSR and China was similar during the reign of Zedong.

He vents frustration, that in spite of the fact the first printed sources have appeared in China, the European researches of the printing history pay a tribute to Asia only for the invention of paper.

The history of Chinese swords shows and proves that they meant a lot for the nation in that time being symbols of the country and leaving a great print in the world history.

Although many Buddhist and Daoist texts support the idea of filial piety, their monastic intuitions seem to be in direct contrast to one of the main responsibilities of a filial child - having a male [...]

The genesis of the construction of the great wall began in 214 BC under the auspices of the Qin dynasty. The Tumu warfare against the Mongols, however rejuvenated the fortification of the wall between 1569 [...]

In the current exploration, how early Chinese laborers were depicted in the literature of Chinese Canadian authors is expected to shed light on the issues of that time and further the understanding of the challenges [...]

This paper is a discussion of the role of women during the first Intifada, how they became visible during this time, the leading Palestinian women, how the women challenged the occupation and their male counterparts, [...]

The empire was insensitive to the cultural values of the neighboring communities like Chinese and went ahead to distrust the influence of the neighbors.

In a bid to convince the majority that a few individuals were leading the country towards personal gains, Mao alleged that the bourgeoisie was taking over the government, and they were entertaining capitalism for the [...]

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932 following the unification of the Kingdom of Nejd and the Kingdom of Hejaz by Kind Abdul Aziz Al Saud.

The treaty that was signed by Japan and Taiwan and the one between Japan and Korea had the same specificity. Treaties signed between Japan, Korea, Taiwan and People's Republic of China each have unique characteristics [...]

However, there was always a great wave of violence and sufferings of the people from the countryside which was entirely ignored by the Chinese government and considered merely part of the inevitable cost of revolutionary.

The two artists had to inculcate Chinese practices in designing their products in order to control the market. Even though the article presents Chinese as people who chose freely, it is not absolute since Huang [...]

The negotiations that were held in 1905 did not help the Chinese who were in the United States of America because the government of China was weak.

In the early years, the Japan emperor was a religious leader and the position of emperor was integral to the country's harmony since the emperor was the symbol of unity and continuity.

Chang'an city grew to become one of the largest cities in the world and it popularly gained the name 'Heyday of Kaiyuan', and the Tang Dynasty at this period reached the peak of its prosperity.

The greatest value of the book should be explained via the opportunity to see the events which happened in the society through the perspective of the victim of those events.

After the end of The Sui dynasty, the Tang dynasty emerged and it existed between 618 and 917. Political structure: During this era, the Chinese population increased considerably and the dynasty established a strong and [...]

According to research findings, gunpowder technology was discovered in Asia by the Chinese in the 9th century and was used to make firearms before being used in the manufacture of rockets.

It must be noted that towards the latter part of his essay Rizal mentions the need for reform and education, research into the 333 years of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines shows that while [...]

This paper attempts to investigate the events in the Middle East that steered the Islamic revolution in Iran during 1979, the significance of the Arab Peninsula to the Middle East and other parts of the [...]

The opposition by the Chinese peasants weakened the dynasty, such that it was unable to address the challenges of the 19th century and reform China as well.

The author makes sure that throughout the entire novel, the story of Su Qi's family relates extensively to the historical context of the book.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors that led to the economic and social development in UAE so as to give the reader an insight into the features of UAE as they [...]

The Manchus took advantage of the fact that the Ming dynasty was collapsing due to the rebellion taking place in the year 1644.

Nevertheless, many Japanese Americans would see this movie as a type of propaganda that attempted to normalize and excuse the harsh treatment of their people during the war.

It has been steadfast on matters of economy, hence, proving to be the pillar of myriad world economic endeavors, a matter that has attracted the concern of the superior states on which country is likely [...]

Between the creation of the early states and the renowned 'Age of Commerce,' one of the most significant times in the formation of early modern Southeast Asia occurred.

The Song Dynasty alternated between warfare and diplomacy with the Western Xia in the Northwest region and the Liao Dynasty in the Northeast.

The essay will cover the relationship between Catholicism and Confucianism, as well as the academic and political life of the country.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan and the subsequent A Blood-Red Revolution in Kyrgyzstan have been two of the most important and influential political events in the [...]

In his statements to a Russian newspaper, Akaev claimed that important figures in the police department collaborated with the opposition. In 2009, Bakiev's chief of staff, Medet Sadyrkulov, resigned and was believed to back the [...]

In Sadat's instance, he used the aspect of Egypt's sovereignty and traditional role in the Arab community to start the negotiations, which persuaded Begin to participate in the peace talks.

The Nakba refers to the destruction of hundreds of cities and towns and the Palestinian people's cultural, economic, political, and social backgrounds.

The main issues that will determine the future of Asian countries include the ambiguity of economic processes and the consequences of urbanization and population growth.

On the contrary, to the north of the country, close to Tajikistan, Afghanistan has the Bactrian Plain, which contains a unique geographic area in the form of an extension of the clay-sandy Karakum desert.

The migration was propelled by drought and floods on the Opium trade between the Chinese and the British. The initial resistance against the Chinese started in 1875 with the enactment of the Page Act.

The decomposition of state land tenure led to the weakening of the Japanese state and the strengthening of the economic and political influence of the local feudal nobility, relying on the samurai.

Therefore, one can address the cause of the library cave's sealing and its impacts on the East to West roads, commonly known as the silk roads.

In the first page Lockman relates that in the past the 'engagements' we have had with the Middle East has resulted in essence in 11 September 2001.the culmination, he says of 6 decades of US [...]

The method adopted by the author to measure the depth of the Muslim analysis with their perception determines the diagnosis of the Islamic World since its advent.

The Japanese adopted the strategy of assimilating the younger generation of the Tsou people through education that greatly affected the Tsou people in terms of their lifestyle and culture.

The father of Chinese medicine has been said to be Shennong, who is also know as 'The Heavenly Husbandman' a legendry emperor who gave birth to Chinese agriculture and had himself tasted the many types [...]

Japanese occupation World War Two The U.S.occupation of Korea Korean War The Second American Occupation Cold War In the 1943 Cairo Declaration, adopted by the United States, China, and Britain, it was outlined that [...]

The Supreme Guide directly controls the army, the Ministry of Justice, and the intelligence services. Other religious institutions are the Council of Guardians, the Assembly of Experts, and the Expediency Council.

With the intensification of the Cold War in the 1950-s, the chase for dominance between the Communist countries and the US was manifested by the invasion of the empires into the domestic affairs of Vietnam [...]

The attainment of independence intensified the disharmony between the two groups of people in the country, the Hindus and the Muslims.

The initial concern of the British was to provide the region with stability that was supposed to become the fundament of further reorganizational activity.

The modern concept of the economy is a construction of the conceptualization and mapping of the understanding that existed in the nineteenth century and twentieth century.

This stage was the initial phase of cultural diplomacy in Japan, and it began in the early 1950s and ended in the late 1960s.

The preparation of the obento is not easy, it demands some special skills, and, of course, deep knowledge of the traditions.

The thing is that he was a representative of people who was not afraid to express indignation towards inner and outer policy of the country.

This prompted them to embrace the technical and industrial culture that was a preserve of the Europeans. It is noteworthy, that they encountered resistance from the Soviet nation, which also had interests in the region [...]

The empire had the most dynamic agricultural land that the Song used to empower the people of China. After the massive paper money invention, there was a large scale of steel and the iron industries [...]

Evliya celebi is one of the most outstanding figures in the Ottoman Empire of the 17th century. In this respect the main work of Evliya The Book of Travels represents picaresque and exhaustive information on [...]

As a result of this, Lin Zexu informed Queen Victoria that the Oing State was not in support of the opium trade, this led to a war between China and Britain leading to the surrender [...]

The reforms gave encouragement to Ottomanism trying to integrate the non-Turks and the non-Muslims more into the society of the Ottoman Empire by giving them more civil rights and conceding equality all through the Empire."Ottoman [...]

The third expedition was in 1409-1411 where he visited Kaya and Coimbatore in addition to his first and second expedition countries he had visited.

The main target of the Soviet was to ensure that the two parties merged. What brought the Communists to power was the revival of the power of the peasantry through Mao Zedong.

The people were not allowed to voice their concerns and this was what led to their rebellion hence the fall of the Qin dynasty.

A certain pattern that has emerged is whereby the media doctors the information given to the public such that it ends up communicating its own opinion to the public.

Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasids Caliphate that had "no peer in the east or the west of the world in extent, size, and prosperity".

There is evidence of the existence of the legal system that the Tang dynasty sought to perfect, between 618 and 906 A.D.if we were to lay focus on the institutions present in this system, what [...]

Certainly, the changes in the political and economic worldview were the inevitable consequence of these conquests, but beyond that, the caliphate succeeded not to surrender to the growing external dangers and did not fail to [...]

Based on our findings the legitimacy of the 'totalitarianism' concept is defined and the possibility of its application to the studies of Mao's China.

There is a dormant-volcano kind of "sub-terranean tensions" that seem to herald the beginning of the end for communism in China.

The civil society has come along way in China mainly as result of the failure of political opposition to establish transformation in the state. This in turn opened a way for the start of the [...]

In most of the colonies, the missionaries were the first to go and spread Christianity in readiness for the colonialists to take over.

Japan surged with the inversion trend undeterred, in 1937, it launched a large-scale inversion of China and four years later in 1941, it attacked the US, triggering the entry of America to the Second World [...]

From then on, there was influence from China for the next 300 years which led to the Japanese to the establishment of an imperial court in as in China as well as the rise of [...]

The second is the development of the mass media, which promoted the rapid spread of the news, thus the masses could control and follow the events in the country, and over the world.

The cause of the Vietnam War is partly because of the policies of the United States in meddling with the affairs of the Vietnam government.

In order to understand the spirit of Buddha's writings and teachings it would be necessary to go through some of the translations of the original which was written in Pali, a language/script that is well [...]

At the same time, the conservative administrative structure of the Ottoman Empire and the way of ruling the country, which was the authoritative monarchy, allowed only for the development of the already existing branches of [...]

The Ainu people speak the Japanese language, live the Japanese style of life, attend Japanese schools and take Japanese identity under the modern state registration system.

As Cao Xueqin noted in a book "The story of the Stone", the traditional lineage and order of subordination was held even among the servants and the maids.

There is therefore basis to say that the speech did help explain or justify, the rise and fall of dynasties because it has a message that would confirm what really happened in reality.

His teachings were focused on the ability to ritualize life; one of the main focuses of those teachings was that the majority of the problems in society were the result of individuals forgetting their proper [...]

The Mandate of Heaven was a Chinese idea used to hold up the regulation of the kings of the Zhou Dynasty and afterward the Emperors of China.

Al-Mamun was a man made by history as he was born to a Muslim ruling family, was the seventh caliph of the Abbasid dynasty with his beliefs shaped by circumstances and he was also a [...]

In fact, the policies of globalization date back to the later part of the 20th century, but if we minutely analyze the trade along the Silk Road, we find that the barter trade of goods [...]

The film 'Devils on the doorstep' takes a very objective view at war, and hence does not project one side as a tyrant and the other as a victim.

American soldiers of Company assaulted the hamlet of My Lai part of the village of Son My in Quang Ngai province of South Vietnam on 16 March 1968.

Moreover, people's disagreement with the former Chinese government and the tensions between Kuomintang, Japanese forces, and the Communist Party of China also contributed to Mao's political career.

The first Opium War between Britain and China in 1839 became one of the central factors that predetermined the further evolution of the region, Chinas relations with the British Empire, and the nature of policies [...]

The Abbasids rule could be considered one of the turning points in the history of the Islamic world. Powerful Caliphs initiated the rise of industry and the agricultural sector to guarantee the stability and growth [...]

According to the author, the Qing dynasty was one of the key points that marked the end of one era and the beginning of the other one.

It is devoted to China's identity and its relation to political thought within the three periods of China's contested centrality: in early modern East Asia, in modern East Asia, and in contemporary East Asia. In [...]

This paper aims to summarize the articles From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: The New Challenges in Global History and New Technologies Applied to Family History: A Particular Case of Southern Europe in the Eighteens Century.

3 Additionally, the researcher stresses the role of such factors as the official recognition of the Nepali language in the 1930s, a scarcely noticeable tendency to differentiate between particular rulers and the state, and the [...]

The history of Christian missionary efforts in Japan during the Early Modern period shows the interconnectedness of politics and religion and the instability of the international political climate at the time.

Kashima notes that the incarceration of Japanese citizens living in Hawaii by 1941 was the climax of an ongoing racial hostility, and the Pearl Harbor attacks simply catalyzed the process. The major theme of the [...]

In Korea, this is confirmed in the article "Korea in Chinese History: Struck in the Middle," where the modern Chinese historians argue that the Korean dynastic period is owed to their history.

The practice was common among the court dancers in the Song dynasty, but it spread out to other parts of the country.

Korea adopted the style of writing and speaking from the Chinese civilization. Chinese civilization was, therefore, of substantial help to the Koreans and Japanese.