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  • considered the foremost intellectual leader of China during the first two ... writings influenced an entire generation of Chinese young people. Liang ...
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  • |p1 = Empire of Japan |flag_p1 = Flag_of_Japan_-_variant.svg ... At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ...
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  • Dutch) chartered by the States-General of the Netherlands to expand trade ... its possessions and the debt being taken over by the government of ...
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  • The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... ratified by Spain (at the time, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon), July 2 ...
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  • Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...
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  • called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state ... After World War II, Shinto lost its status of state religion; some ...
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  • is an entity responsible for the money of its country or of its group ... Though the primary purpose of a central bank is to act as a financial ...
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  • explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ... a businessman. After a short experience of office work proved him to be ...
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  • ancient kingdom established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's ... Balhae occupied southern parts of Manchuria (Northeast China) and ...
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  • :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...
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  • in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1923. Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...
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  • who is most famous for his mission to Japan, which opened that country ... he was only 15 years old, under the command of his older brother Oliver Hazard ...
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  • born Hiyoshi-maru日吉丸; coming of age (Genpuku) as Kinoshita ... Hideyoshi is noted in Japanese history for a number of political and ...
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  • began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan ... Korea has sometimes been described as a shrimp between two whales ...
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  • 1586) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle ... his goals and slowly expanded his world of relationships and issues. ...
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  • , born Yáng Yùhuán (楊玉環), was one of the Four Beauties of ancient ... been a court favorite, began the Rebellion of Anshi, taking the capital of ...
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  • a multinational automaker headquartered in Japan that manufactures automobiles ... In the 1950s, the management of Nissan made a conscious decision to ...
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  • and the Diamond Vehicle) refers to a family of Buddhist lineages found primarily ... While Vajrayana Buddhism is a part of Tibetan Buddhism, in that it ...
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  • has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...
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  • system known as Civil law. For the area of law in common law countries ... Civil law, or continental law, is the predominant system of law in ...
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