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in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1910, Korea had been annexed by the Japanese ... angered by the fact that he had to use a Japanese name and wear a Japanese ...

a remarkable impact on his mission country, Korea, where he arrived in 1884 ... in China, and hoped for a different experience in Korea. ...

The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese ... treaty, it was not nearly as much as the Japanese public had been led to expect ...

Yu joined the March 1st Movement for Korea's independence from ... Mokcheongun in Chungnam province in Korea. Nearby was the Maebong Presbyterian ...

was fought in October 1920 between the Japanese army and Korean independence ... *Korea under Japanese rule ==Notes== ==References== * JACAR Ref.C03022770200 ...

the signing of the Eulsa Treaty, when Korea was a protectorate of Japan ... Haeju, Hwanghae Province (now part of North Korea). Born during the waning ...

lived the majority of their lives outside Korea or, simply, any Korean who ... ===Korea under Japanese rule=== [[File:Japan 030416 Hiroshima 04.jpg ...

and led to Japan's colonization of Korea. The Donghak Rebellion began ... leading to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in July 1894 and the ...

leading up to the end of the monarchy and Korea's entry into the modern ... *Korea under Japanese rule ==Notes== ==References== *대한제국 고종 ...

founder of Gojoseon, the first kingdom of Korea, in present-day Liaoning ... rank, much like "-sama" in Japanese). "하늘님 Hanul ...

the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. His full posthumous name ... of greatly expanding the territory of Korea during his reign gave his ...

The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... * Korea under Japanese rule * Manchukuo * Russo-Japanese War ...

#039;s university in central Seoul, South Korea. One of the city's largest ... they had received an invitation to come to Korea as teachers, not missionaries ...

Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese ... the Kamakura period (1185-1333), military rule was imposed and gagaku was ...

many nations have invaded and occupied Korea, and some have left their ... remained permanently, so by 1990 both South Korea and North Korea numbered ...

The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from ... technically at war through today. North Korea's communist government ...

The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (JOKB) Korea's largest denomination ... into prominence following the end of the Japanese occupation, as control of ...

suppression on Jeju Island, South Korea, beginning April 3, 1948 ... The detested Japanese occupation of Korea, which began in 1910, finally ...

mountain on the border between North Korea and the Manchurian region ... Baekdusan marks the northern boundary of Korea, and the location where Korea ...

most famous statesmen, Resident-General of Korea, four times Prime Minister ... bombardment of Choshu and convinced the Japanese leaders not to go to war ...

*For the history of the Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The History of South Korea formally begins with the establishment ...

to generations of Koreas for guiding Joseon Korea through one of the most perilous ... him Crown Prince. When Japan invaded Korea to attack the Ming Empire ...

Gojong reached adulthood. Daewongun's rule came at the end of the Joseon ... Daewongun aimed, fundamentally, to run Korea according to traditional ...

kingdoms of Baekje and Goguryeo had come under the control of the Silla ... and competition over hegemony in Korea had much to do with Tang ...

Queen Min, an unlikely person to take the reins of Korea during the ... * Korea under Japanese rule ==External links== All links retrieved ...

thirteenth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He was the second son of ... the rebuilding of Bogeunsa Temple in 1548, under the leadership of the monk ...

Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (대한민국임시정부; ... the key moral and philosophical leaders of Korea during the twentieth century ...

Located on Mt. Tohamsan, in Gyeongju, South Korea, about one hour ... ascended and Buddhism fell into disfavor in Korea. Seokguram vanished from ...

but was finally forced from the throne by Japanese, who took over the governance ... 1849, the social and political climate in Korea were poor. Since the beginning ...

Koreans.[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FH19Dg01.html] Jiandao Province ... use Jiandao due to the association with Japanese occupation. North Korea ...

South Korea's foreign relations have been shaped by its evolving ... shrugging off a humiliating experience under Japan's colonial government ...

as the dominant figure in the Republic of Korea's history and particularly ... criticism for his harsh authoritarian rule. Today in South Korea, however ...

university. For the fourth-generation Japanese American Yonsei Japanese ... /) a private, coeducational university located in Seoul, South Korea ...

25, 1950. The resolution demanded North Korea immediately end its invasion ... this time, the United Nations backed South Korea and considered it the only ...

is the largest port city in the Republic of Korea. With a population of about ... Busan became Korea’s first international port in 1876. Busan was ...

the Nakdong River valley of south eastern Korea that coalesced out a shifting ... (including parts of today's North Korea, northeast China (Manchuria ...

played a major role in developing Korea's cultural tradition ... numbered among the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Beginning as a chiefdom ...

was one of the earliest manifestations of Korea's independence movement ... The March First demonstrations established the high-water mark in ...

from there along the Silk Road to China, Korea and Japan. The technique ... via the western province of Yunnan, which, under Mongol rule, received an ...

Transportation in South Korea refers to all modes of transportation ... by adopted Western technology, annexed Korea in 1905 and carried out a ...

Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan fought over the control of Korea ... 1, 1894– April 17, 1895). The Sino-Japanese War symbolized the degeneration ...

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Shinjitai (modern Japanese) writing: 豊臣秀吉; ... Hideyoshi is noted in Japanese history for a number of political and ...

Monarchs in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea are descended from Emperor ... in 1392. In 1398, after just six years of rule, Taejo, disheartened by the ...

Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... Korea (Korean: 한국 in South Korea or 조선 in North Korea, see ...

Bulguksa, one of Korea's largest and most often visited temples ... and the early Joseon Dynasty. During the Japanese invasions between 1592 and ...

The Progressive Movement in Korea began in 1873, just prior to the ... Korea has sometimes been described as a shrimp between two whales ...

The French campaign against Korea of 1866, known as Byeonginyangyo ... Though Joseon Dynasty Korea maintained a policy of isolation from ...

South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...

is the official state ideology of North Korea and the political system ... liberator of humankind, and describes North Korea as a chosen nation, and North ...

of the Joseon Dynasty, the final dynasty in Korea before it became a modern ... an era of tremendous creativity in Joseon Korea. Begun at about the same ...

in about the seventeenth century. Today, Korea has the largest Christian ... year reign. Buddhism was introduced to Korea in 372 C.E., and Korean Buddhism ...

The Goryeo Dynasty marks the last Buddhist-shaped dynasty in Korea ... Silla, which had united the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 668, weakened ...

This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division ... Korea under Japanese rule [[Image:Korea Strait.png|thumb|right|300px ...

moved again, it remained the capital of Japanese civilization until Emperor ... Tang China (唐). In many other ways, the Japanese upper classes patterned ...

noted for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Japanese ... Today, Yi is widely recognized as a hero in Korea and many study him ...

Japan made two invasions of Korea, in [Japan's Korea War: First ... Under pressure from the Chinese army and local guerrillas, with food ...

examinations. He distinguished himself in Korea, and in 1895, after the First ... county center of Xiangcheng (項城市), under the administration of the ...

teachings, as well as the closely related Japanese Zen. Other sects, such as ... Buddhism, originally introduced to Korea from China in 372, or about ...

who were part of the ruling elite in Korea prior to 1945 and during ... of the partitioned Koreas. In modern day Korea, the yangban no longer possess ...

Joseon Dynasty as well as the creation of Modern Korea. his death, has been claimed by both South Korea and North Korea as a national ...

King Gongmin (공민왕 恭愍王1330 – 1374) ruled Goryeo (Korea ... officials and aristocrats who had prospered under the Mongols and did not want ...

and the encroachment of European and Japanese imperialists in the second ... and the encroachment of European and Japanese imperialists in the second ...

:For the history of Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The history of North Korea formally begins with the establishment ...

country. Liaoning borders the Yellow Sea (Korea Bay) and the Bohai Gulf in ... the name was changed to Liaoning in 1929. Under the Japanese puppet Manchukuo ...

in 75, and was given several promotions under the rule of Emperor He. In ... in China and had spread to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. In 751, some ...

early 1940s, forced into service by the Japanese government to work in coal ... diaspora. The majority immigrated from Korea before the division of Korea ...

eating utensils of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Thailand ... the primary eating utensil in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The limited ...

. Joseon became the last dynasty of Korea, the longest lasting Confucian ... in 1897, the dynasty ended with the Japanese annexation in 1910. ...

from the Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces of Korea during the late 1930s and ... those Koreans refused repatriation to Korea suffered discrimination as ...

via Portuguese and French from the Japanese word bonsō for a priest ... today, in some branch of Buddhism this rule is still in effect. However ...

to reinforce the strength and legitimacy of rule by the imperial family. In ... to describe a period in the history of Japanese fine arts and architecture ...

peninsula, was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, along with Baekje and Silla ... occupied southern Manchuria and northern Korea. Goguryeo, a major regional ...

means "Period of Enlightened Rule." and returned the nation to the direct rule of the emperor Meiji. The ...

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... peninsula at the end of World War II, South Korea achieved formal independence ...

Seon Master gained wide spread notoriety in Korea as having been a living Buddha ... Born Lee Young Joo in Korea on April 10, 1912, Seongcheol was the ...

one of the Three Kingdoms of ancient Korea. In 642, Yeon discovered ... Goguryeo was the largest of the three kingdoms into which ancient ...

Japan made two invasions of Korea, in 1592 and 1596, starting a war ... The Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) refers to two invasions ...

two regions were even united politically under the Kushans, both being capitals ... through Central Asia, Tibet, Bhutan, China, Korea, and Japan, in which Mahayana ...

Balhae stands in the direct line of the mythical foundation of Korea ... Manchuria(Northeast China) and northern Korea existed previously as the ...

as was done for the occupation of Germany. Under the final plan, however, ... *Soviet Union: Korea north of the 38th parallel, Sakhalin, and most ...

Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by ... be considered as truly Korean Literature. Under the Japanese occupation from ...

General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign ... in North Chungcheong, in 1944, while Korea was ruled by Japan. When ...

quot;), or Shōwa era, is a period of Japanese history that coincides exactly ... In the Japanese language, the name “Showa” means “bright peace” ...

emperor of the Qing Dynasty (清朝) to rule over China. Following the ... On March 1, 1932, Puyi was installed by the Japanese as the ruler ...

lobster. Sometimes it has a flaming pearl under its chin. Chinese dragons ... The dragon is considered a powerful sign under which to be born, one that ...

of Ainu outnumbered the number of Japanese living on the island. Nearly ... now one of the best remembered phrases in Japanese history. ...

The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital ... was proclaimed a City of Peace by the Japanese parliament in 1949, and ...

Religion in Korea encompasses Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity ... Religion in Korea has a multi-faceted character. Shamanism, a tribal ...

Free India joined the Axis, fighting with Japanese forces more to express its ... Party of China to fight against the Japanese, and instead opted to fight ...

as the second Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led ... of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and assumed important ...

only places where gunpowder was produced under the shogunate. Other industries ... and the government changed from rule by a family or clan to rule ...

India, Burakumin in Japan, or Baekjeong in Korea, have suffered discrimination ... societies include colonial Latin America under Spanish and Portuguese rule ...

arranged marriages called omiai (Japanese: お見合い). Those seeking ... In Korea, traditionally the primary emphasis for marriages was on ...

[[Image:Japanese internment camp in British Columbia.jpg|thumb|250px ... "in the hands" of an enemy and under any occupation by a foreign power. ...

of the Ryukyu Islands were united in 1429, under the first Shō Dynasty. The ... no clear evidence of Paleolith remains. Japanese Jōmon influences are dominant ...

During World War II, Japanese armed forces invaded Guam on December ... the war ended for everyone except one Japanese soldier who continued hiding ...

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...

to a civil war between the nations of North Korea and South Korea, which were ... Each side wanted to unite the Korean peninsula under its own political ...

would administer territories formerly under German and Ottoman rule, ... vis-à-vis the French. Koreans, living under Japanese colonialism, for ...

Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Japanese empire, referred to themselves ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...

as Indonesian although never united under a single pre-colonial government ... ==World War II and the Japanese occupation== In early 1929, during ...

reasons, to recapturing an area previously under their control, to the liberation ... an outside force entering territory not under its authority or control. ...

a king, judges were raised as leaders to rule the people. These judges were ... These documents, containing propaganda in Japanese, fostered distrust of Japanese ...

The word samurai is derived from the Japanese verb saburau, meaning “to ... played an important role in developing Japanese ethical virtues and spiritual ...

this last holdout and left the imperial rule supreme throughout the whole ... nations, with the notable exceptions of Korea via Tsushima, Qing China ...

and eighteenth centuries, when the Japanese arts reached their peak ... the Han Dynasty. "Bonsai" is a Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese ...

The Japanese word for foreigner (gaijin) can also mean "outsiders ... its own cultural identity, while India under British rule was subjected ...

the Tokugawa period, is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 ... succeeded in unifying most of Japan under a single government, and ...

The first centralized Chinese bureaucratic empire was realized under ... bureaucrats. The Sui introduced a rule that the officials of a prefecture ...

) is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean ... adopted according to their meaning by the Japanese and Korean languages to ...

they will lead the holy life of chastity under Maitreya's guidance ... interpretation of the Agama Sutra (Japanese: Agon Sutra), ...

as Daikan Enō in Japan and as Hyeneung in Korea. His foremost students were ... The Ch’an school was transplanted to Korea as Seon, to Japan as Zen ...

Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the Unification ... heavily in the development of North Korea. Other examples of his diverse ...

Go or Igo in Japanese (囲碁), Weiqi in Chinese (圍棋, 围棋) ... Originally played in China, Korea and Japan, the game began to gain ...

set sail. Towards the end of the Ming rule, the first European colony ... Ming rule saw the construction of a vast navy, including four-masted ...

gradually evolved to mean the lands under direct imperial rule. ... Dust has blown to southern China, Taiwan, and Korea, and has even ...

elaborately constructed to legitimize his rule. Many deliberate distortions ... one of the most salient features of Soviet rule ... Many scholars of Stalinism ...

for this include greater female resilience under the pressure of malnutrition ... such as meningitis, malaria, and cholera. Under-nourished people are naturally ...

during his time and was rarely defeated. Under Batu Khan he extended Mongol ... world history. Several centuries of Mongol rule across the Eurasian landmass ...

was renamed "Jakarta" by the Japanese during WWII during the Japanese ... Bandung megalopolis. Since 2004, Jakarta, under the governance of Sutiyoso ...

with the neighboring countries of China and Korea. Japan's cultural development ... Confucianism and Buddhism with China and Korea, Japan actively adopted elements ...

Isoroku Yamamoto(Japanese: 山本五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku) (April ... was appointed Vice Minister of the Japanese navy, and joined the ranks ...

coup in which elected leaders make their rule permanent. Dictatorships are ... necessary to carry out the dictator's rule. These individuals form an ...

Methodist Episcopal Church baseball team under the pseudonym "Runt ... go to Japan to teach baseball seminars at Japanese universities during the ...

039;s mita, decimated the native population under Spanish control. After this ... came through the continent, and democratic rule is now widespread. Nonetheless ...

before. Because it is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial ... obsolete. An older method of romanizing Japanese also resulted in "Tokio ...

in the western Pacific Ocean in Japan, Korea, and Russia and landlocked ... The eggs will winter over in the stream bed, often under ice and deep ...

in 1945. The province played a central role under communist rule. Now, with ... After the Three Kingdoms period, a brief period of unity under the ...

Shogi (将棋 shōgi), or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a ... such as xiangqi from China and janggi from Korea came to Japan at this time ...

of Chinese characters (kanji) used in the Japanese language. The new forms ... ubiquitous on buildings predating communist rule, such as former government ...

and occupied the capital in 1919. Chinese rule did not last: Notorious Russian ... Mongolia was the first country in Asia to embrace communist rule and ...

use in English since the time of British colonial rule. ... the British and became a province of India under British rule. On April 1 ...

capitalism was restored in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khruschev and in China ... while centralization keeps corruption under supervision, amid strong ...

Shanghai. On May 27, 1949, Shanghai came under the control of the Communist ... the sixteenth century, to guard against Japanese and Chinese pirates (Wokou ...

Minh as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and the south ... Châu was spared from execution and placed under house arrest, until his death ...

Witte served under the last two emperors of Russia, Alexander III ... fourth of the small railway systems were under direct state control, but ...

(the first and only Chinese Empress to rule in her own right). Prosperity (Tang Xuanzong's early rule). The enormous Grand Canal ...

of cartilage. Hagfish are a staple food in Korea. They are classified in the ... and skins with scales. (As a general rule for the taxon. Not all bony ...

but it also received assistance from South Korea, Australia, Thailand, the ... formed a resistance group to oppose the Japanese in the north, aided by teams ...

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ... Over its long history, Japanese art absorbed many foreign artistic ...

devastated by famine and disease and was under threat of invasion from Mongolians ... times to intervene and restore legitimate rule, and in 1406, he sent envoys ...

around 6,000 years ago. Dutch colonial rule opened the island to mass ... only as a non-state actor, often under the name "Chinese Taipei ...

church to be established without being under state control as the Roman ... Protestantization was imposed by royal rule including the first English ...

provide military support for the Republic of Korea. It also authorized ... Japan; it failed to act against the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the ...

the contemporary pronunciation of Japanese) In the Japanese of the ... was a Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyo of ...

the early tenth century C.E., Vietnam was under the rule of successive Chinese ... During the rule of the Tran Dynasty, Dai Viet defeated three Mongol ...

emancipation through the League of Nations. Under Article 22 of the Covenant ... when states surrender both the de facto rule of their colonies and their ...

and the end of 2,000 years of imperial rule resulted in instability and ... seventeenth century. Originally a vassal under the Ming Dynasty, he declared ...

while the latter vacationed in Switzerland. Under Emir Hamad, Qatar has experienced ... head of state is the emir, and the right to rule Qatar is passed on within ...

the Qing Dynasty and ended imperial rule in China. In 1927, threatened ... poetry) and for intellectual studies. Under the Mongol (Yuan Dynasty ...

for apostolic work, following a religious rule, and relying on alms, or donations ... Under the notion that God can be encountered through created things ...

Egypt, the Dutch East Indies, and the Japanese colonial empire. In some ... outnumber their owners, leading to minority rule, similar to a dependency. ...

=== Colonial rule === Francisco Pizarro and his brothers were attracted ... in the middle of the nineteenth century, under General Ramon Castilla's ...

and made possible the perfection of fruits grown under glass, as the ... and 1899–1902), the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895), the First ...

to be seen as the golden age of Malay self-rule, and the Sultans of Melaka ... The Straits Settlements were administered under the East India Company in ...

; now Seoul), Korea, both meaning simply "capital." ... had changed to Nanjing, the first time under the Hongwu Emperor of the ...

and the end of World War II, Hong Kong was under Japanese control. Rapid industrialization ... in 1841, and then formally ceded from China under the Treaty of Nanking at ...

from the British, Chinese, Dutch, French, Japanese, and Portuguese. The most ... continued hostilities against American rule until 1913. The Philippine ...

United Kingdom after decades of colonial rule. Nigeria re-achieved democracy ... societies were conquered one after another. Under the British, hundreds of ...

to the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The Japanese volleyball used in the 1964 ... repeated the Gold in the Olympics in South Korea. In 1989, the FIVB Sports ...

of fans into endless debates, although rule changes have made statistical ... era," ended in the 1920s with several rule changes that gave advantages ...

was that no single superpower can or should rule the world." Explaining ... the movement to abolish the ideas of divine rule and monarchy, as well as the ...

self-control (Galatians 5:22-23), or the Japanese bushidō code: Gi (義; ... not daring to be ahead of all under heaven, or humility in a ...

1.5 million people were murdered by or died under communist Pol Pot's ... *Kingdom of Cambodia under the rule of the monarchy from 1953 through 1970; ...

segments. The reason is that in Japan and Korea, 7 is written as ① in the ... *Seven blessings are recited under the chuppah during a Jewish wedding ...

quest brought Gautama first through study under Vedic teachers, including ... meditation. He famously sat in meditation under a Ficus religiosa, tree now ...

of the Soviet Union, the party, under Stalin's direction, ... Cheliabinsk tractor plants were built or under construction. ...

and even many allies were put to death under Stalin. Stalin's expansionism ... Party, identified potential threats to his rule and established a reputation ...

systematic human rights abuses, and whose rule is estimated to have contributed ... during which the communist Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Vladimir ...

The Rule of Saint Benedict (Ch. XLVIII), which set aside certain times ... Metal movable type was invented in Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty ...

nation's economy, originally strong under his leadership, went into ... in defense of the Philippines against the Japanese. He fought in Bataan and ...

Mongolia, and eventually reached as far as Korea. The Nestorian community ... during the thirteenth century. The Mongols, under the leadership of Genghis ...

by the United States federal government under various jurisdictions, both ... U.S. deposit of silver ore, discovered under what is now Virginia City ...

Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Under the name of Argentine Antarctica ... is subject to a variety of climates. As a rule, the climate is predominantly ...

limited to two consecutive four-year terms under the city's home rule ... in Cedar Park. Germans, Greeks, Chinese, Japanese, English, Pakistanis, Iranians ...

Japanese documents show records of induced abortion from as early ... abortion." Late nineteenth-century Japanese Ukiyo-e [[woodblock printing ...

of pulleys to the film projector, allowing—under ideal conditions—for synchronization ... film, the future standard: a set of shorts under the banner of De Forest Phonofilms ...

of democracy and freedom over totalitarian rule, state-mandated atheism, and ... of Eastern Europe and the Northern half of Korea. They also attempted to occupy ...

to all American territories and colonies under Spanish and Portuguese rule ... there were several rebel movements under Spanish rule, most of them ...

centuries. Nonetheless sericulture reached Korea around 200 BCE, and about ... Silkworms were raised and silk reeled under the direction of Zoe Lady ...

commissioned by Takezaki Suenaga, a Japanese warrior who fought against ... rapidly in the twenty first century. Under the Law Enforcement Officers ...

Reforms took place under Darius. Coinage, in the form of the daric ... Under Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great, the Persian Empire eventually ...

Castro converted Cuba into a pro-Soviet, one-party, socialist state ... Castro joined the expedition. However, under U.S. pressure, Grau's ...

been accused of promoting personal views under the cover of an overall criticism ... popular in India, Persia, China, Japan, Korea and, to an extent, the Middle ...

E., when the Lusitanians and other tribes, under the leadership of Viriathus ... Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal) in 1065 under the rule of Garcia II. Due ...

Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It is also close to the ... the other by the United States) are just under two miles (three kilometers ...

Texcoco by the Mexica (Aztecs) around 1325, under the name Tenochtitlan. It ... Cortés put Moctezuma under house arrest, hoping to rule through him. ...

states has a high level of local autonomy under the system of federalism. wealthy by self-reliance and hard work under a system of free-market capitalism ...