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- 3521: On The Chinese Dynasty
- ... of things back. The Chinese got a lot of things back from trade. These are some examples of the trade system. The Chinese dynasties are really amazing. The Sui Dynasty lasted between 589-618 A.D. Yian Jian conquered the Chen kingdom and unified China. That was the first time in 400 years it was unified. The Tang Dynasty lasted between 618-907 A.D. In 618 Li Shi Min captured Changan and Louy Ang. He made himself Emperor Dai Zong in 626. Song dynasty lasted between 960-1279 AD. Tai Zu emerged after the Civil War. The Song Dynasty ... 563 to 483 B.C. Buddha came to China in 200 B.C. The dynasties were great as well. There was a dynasty called the Sui Dynasty. This was in power during 589-618 A.D. That is how I know Marco Polo was not telling a million lies.
- 3522: Early History Of Judaism
- ... has made it quite a busy place for the various groups. Jerusalem is where the temple of the Jews once stood; the only place on the whole Earth where one could leave the confines of day to day life and get closer to God. In 586 BCE when the temple was destroyed, no Jew would have denied Jerusalem as being the geographic center of the religion. From that point on, the Jewish people ... above that many factions of the same religion were active. Competing philosophies, outside political forces, and geographic isolation are among the most obvious of the dividing forces. However many other influences 'pound' each and every day on a given social institution, subtly forming it and changing it into something it was not. For this reason, the answer to the debate whether Judaism is a single, or multiple religion(s) is ...
- 3523: First Crusade
- ... joining the band of crusaders were: a) Some went to escape bad times at home. b) Some went because they were bored. c) Some went to find out what opportunity there were in the East. d) Some went to wash away their sins and ensure a place in heaven. e) Some went for adventure. f) Some wanted a chance to gain some of the riches of the east. g) Some here ... excerpts from the example here were written around the time of the siege of Antioch, perhaps the darkest moment of the entire three-year campaign. This letter was translated into English: For on the very day on which they had promised that they would surrender, Solomon and all the Turks, collected from neighboring and distant regions, suddenly fell upon us and attempted to capture our camp. However the counts of St ...
- 3524: Kurt Cobain
- ... try to help him (Jones, Fleming, and Rossi 68). While at a seminar in July of 1993, Kurt overdosed on heroin. Courtney tried to save him by injecting him with some illegal drug. Later that day Kurt played at a concert without any problems ("Biography"). Then while touring, Kurt had an "accidental" overdose in Rome of March 1994. Just prior to that event, Cobain had entered a drug-rehabilitation program in ... the media reported on Kurt's suicide. On the 9th of April 1994 CNN reported: The music world stood still today, in disbelief, as news of the horrific death of rock star Kurt Cobain eco'd around the world. The 27 year old front man of the band Nirvana was discovered dead yesterday at his luxurious Seattle residence, after a self inflicted gun wound to the head. Cobain's wife Courtney ...
- 3525: Killer Angels 3
- ... The Killer Angels The Battle of Gettysburg brought the fighting North and South together to the small town of Gettysburg and on the edge of splitting the Union. Gettysburg could closely be compared to Judgement Day and this book gives a day-to-day account of the battle that made Americas future. The historical account of the Battle of Gettysburg in Killer Angels, uses the facts of the battle as seen through the eyes of Generals Joshua ...
- 3526: Israel And The Palestinians
- ... made up of nomadic tribes and speaking a language called Hebrew. Under Moses the Jews founded the Judaean State. Later because it was a small force Israel was invaded by the super powers of the day Egypt, Assyrian, the Hittites, Greece and finally Rome. In 636 Jerusalem fell to the Arabs. Fallowing in 1557 Ottomans invaded the city. Until the Ottoman collapse in 1918 it remained under Ottoman rule. Afterwards in ... nations against supporting Israel. Iraqi forces moved through Jordan towards Israel. Early on the morning of June 5, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike on Egyptian airfields; Jordanian moved against Israel. Thus began the Six-Day War. Israel had i) captured the Gaza Strip and the entire Sinai peninsula up to the Suez Canal; ii) gained control of East Jerusalem iii) captured the Golan Heights in the north from Syria.* Israeli ... Israel around the Suez Canal and costing 177 Israeli lives and 681 Fedayeen casualties in 1968. By summer 1971 all Fedayeen were expelled from the kingdom and fled to Syria and Lebanon after the eleven day Black September conflict. In revenge Fedayeen killed the Jordanian premier, Wasfi al-Tal. By September 1975 Israel had withdrawn a further 40 kilometres in the Sinai creating a UN demilitarized buffer zone. Both sides ...
- 3527: Islam 2
- ... with it Christianity and Judaism take an important place. It is also a region of intense conflict basically on religious and cultural issues. The Islam started to spread out more than thousand years ago, A.D. 613, with the work of Muhammad the Prophet. This man began to receive messages from Allah and soon he started preaching among his people. The Islam could be interpreted as an improvement or revision of ... Muhammad the Prophet the Islam continued to spread. The Arab armies were attacking, invading and conquering different parts of three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa. They converted to their religion wherever they went. About A.D. 700 the Islam reached North Africa and most of Southeast Asia. Centuries later it came to Southern and Eastern Europe, West and East Africa, South Asia and it reached even China about A.D. 1000. This spreading religion is a perfect example of diffusion processes, particularly spatial diffusion. The first center was at Medina in Arabia, but it was moved to Damascus and finally to Baghdad. The Islam ...
- 3528: Into The Abyss Marquis De Sade
- ... otherwise follow. Lester Crocker explains, "To those whom morals and virtue were themselves vital, as distinguished from the goal of happiness, it seemed the sole possibility of preserving those values against the corrosion of nihilism." D'Holbarch and Helvitius offered explanations that would be able to deter this line of thinking. They argued that it was only out of self-interest that people would be motivated to act in conformity with ... acknowledged that the ultimate pursuit in life was that of happiness, but that its pursuit did not necessarily correlate with the virtue of society in general, it opened the doors to hedonism. Enlightened thinkers like D'Holbarch and Helvitius tried in vain to argue that happiness could best be attained by conforming to the wills of society. By making this proclamation however they allowed for morality in general to be fickle ... that intellectuals prior to him had entertained the notions that he had, they had just been too afraid or embarrassed to publish these ideas. Paris in Sade's time was not the virtuous paradise that D'Holbarch and Helvitius envisioned it would be. The orgies and infamous behavior that Sade would be known for were commonplace in his time. Many critics argue that Sade's only crime was in revealing ...
- 3529: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... many other hardships as well. The performances of routine and repetitive tasks were difficult for the workers to adjust to. Machines now did many tasks once done by artisans. Factories employed workers ten hours a day and six days a week. Factory accidents were very frequent and commonly deadly. Many employers felt the need to increase the use of women and children in the workforce. They could hire the women and ... social problems. The solution was to limit the flow of new arrivals. With these reforms, the working class and progressivists were clearly regaining control of their lives. However, many more changes were to come. Franklin D. Roosevelt had a plan to restore confidence in the workers during the rough times of the Great Depression. This plan was called the "New Deal". He launched the Agricultural Adjustment Act to aid farmers by ...
- 3530: Illumaniti
- ... final social cataclysm by use of satanic despotism. Weishaupt completed his task on May 1, 1776. (Communist nations continue to yearly conduct celebrations on May 1st in honor of this great event.) That was the day Weishaupt officially completed his plan which required the destruction of all existing governments and religions. That objective was to be reached by dividing the masses of people into opposing camps in ever increasing numbers on ... in debt to them that they would willingly or unwillingly seve as their stooges. But the Czar of Russia caught on to the plot, and completely torpedoed it. The enraged Financiers then vowed that some day they would destroy the Czar and his entire family. And this very threat was later accomplished in 1917. We must bear in mind that the Illumianti was not set up to operate on a short ... of all Europe. Immediately after the congress held in Vienna, the International Bankers forced Britain to set up a new bank of England, which they controlled absolutely, and which they still control to this very day. Weishaupt died in 1830, but prior to his death, he prepared a revised version of the age-old conspiracy of the Illuminati, which, under various names, was to organize, finance, direct, and control all ...
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