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  • or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) stands as one of the most powerful emperors ... during his reign. He sponsored a circle of poets known as the Nine Gems ...
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  • and the planned invasion of the Empire of Japan; Churchill was pressing ... *Stalin agreed to enter the fight against the Empire of Japan within ...
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  • The Dutch Empire is the name given to the various territories controlled ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...
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  • The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...
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  • in the Near East, spread to the Byzantine Empire, and from there along the ... in the Near East, spread to the Byzantine Empire, and from there along the ...
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  • The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...
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  • A hierarchical Sinocentric model of international relations, dominated ... place at the center with varying degrees of success. The Sinocentric tribute ...
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  • of the Korean peninsula to the Empire of Japan.Qing Dynasty China cedes ... |combatant2=Japan|alt Empire of Japan |commander1=China|qing Li Hongzhang ...
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  • The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... of China had been fighting the Empire of Japan since 1937. ...
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  • [[File:KarlHaushofer.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Karl Haushofer, circa ... who developed the German concept of Geopolitik. An army officer ...
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  • the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Born into a prosperous ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...
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  • Jeju-do (transliterated Korean for Jeju Province, short form of Jeju ... For most of the island's history, Jeju-do had little contact ...
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  • The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...
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  • Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... Mayo has become associated with celebration of Mexican-American culture. ...
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  • Echigo province during the Sengoku Period of Japanese history and nearly ... At the age of fourteen, Kenshin was urged by Usami Sadamitsu and a ...
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  • Fort Pasir Panjang, or Labrador Battery, located at the southern tip ... the world, understood the importance of coaling stations and coastal ...
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  • Monarchs in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea are descended from Emperor ... This genealogy shows the line of succession from the founding monarch ...
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  • The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...
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  • Japan's justification for abducting Korean, Chinese, and Southeast ... Some Japanese historians, using the diaries and testimony of military ...
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  • battle occurred incidental to the mission of the General Sherman to attempt ... and passed a law that prohibited the return of shipwrecked seaman, especially ...
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  • Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...
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  • persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...
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  • modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... and towards communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话 ...
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  • Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...
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  • , is the largest port city in the Republic of Korea. With a population of ... was more than doubled by an influx of refugees from the north. Busan ...
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  • Korean empress Queen Min was assassinated in the early hours of October ... instigated the assassination. The course of Korean history took a tragic ...
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  • 270px|Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV of France. circa ... Concubinage refers to the state of a woman or youth (known as the ...
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  • Min, married to King Gojong, the 26th King of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1902 ... Queen Min, an unlikely person to take the reins of Korea during the ...
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  • It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral ... replacing it for practical reasons, the use of the abacus continues to be ...
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  • Mitsui Group is one of the largest corporate conglomerates (keiretsu ... shogunate and began operating a system of money exchanges. They received ...
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  • Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Japanese empire, referred to themselves as ... States had declared war against the Empire of Japan. Japan had been annexing ...
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  • and southern India over several centuries of religious antiquity. This blanket ... Orthodoxy split from the larger body of the Christian Church centuries ...
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  • Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...
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  • Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in ... it, the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan (the Meiji Constitution ...
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  • The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...
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  • until 1910, lasted for five centuries as one of the world's longest running ... Shortly following the declaration of the Korean Empire in 1897, the ...
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  • The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре; English ... miles (1,583,000 sq km)—is considered one of the richest north temperate ...
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  • , formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second ... Hokkaidō did not officially become part of Japan until 1868, and ...
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  • The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...
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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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