Source Analysis Paper History 1111 Mathew Myers “Descriptions of Western Regions” is a primary source written between 138B.C.E. and 125B.C.E, by Zhang Qian, giving descriptions of his encounters during his journey westward. Zhang Qian was a Chinese ambassador, who was sent westward to find allies for the Chinese Empire. They needed allies against the Xiongnu, who terrorized the Chinese. While on his journey, he was held captive for over ten years by the Xiongnu, and found out much information about them.
to forge military alliances with kingdoms west of his northwestern archenemy the Xiongnu (or Hun) tribes. He charged General Zhang Qian with this mission, giving him one hundred of his best fighting men and valuable gifts to seal the military cabals. Thirteen years later, having been a Xiongnu hostage for ten years, General Zhang returned to the Imperial Han court with only one other member of the original party. Though he had failed to make a single military alliance, General Zhang enthralled the court with information of the thirty-six commercially vibrant kingdoms west of China's frontier. Compounding the Emperor's interest was his description of the magnificent horses he'd seen in the Ferghana valley (modern day Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan); horses that were stronger and faster than any in China, horses so fine as to render the Chinese army
After this long journey of three years, they arrived in China and met Kublai Khan. Here, Marco impressed the Khan with his wisdom and knowledge of theChinese culture and became a special envoy for Khan’s court. (Text A) During his seventeen years in Mongolia he was a governor as well as a successful businessman, which brought him a big fortune. Still, he missed his homeland and wished to return with the wealth he had earned, though he was denied by the Khan. Until the opportunity arrived when a princess, the Khan’s daughter, needed to be escorted to Persia for her wedding.
Community Assessment SZT Task 3 1 A. Analyze SARS outbreak: A1. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. SARS was first discovered in 2003 in China and rapidly spread to over two dozen countries (SARS- Basic Fact Sheet, n.d.). The initial case of SARS was not publicized and was isolated to China for the next three months. In February of 2003 a Chinese doctor visited family in Hong Kong where he stayed at a hotel.
Ibn Battuta traveled through Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Russia before he arrived in Delhi; where he served as a qadi for the sultan for eight years. During his eighth year, the sultan set Battuta off for China, where he would serve as the sultan’s ambassador. Unfortunately, soon after Ibn Battuta left for China he was kidnapped and kept hostage by Indians, Ibn Battuta narrowly escaped death with the kind assistance of a young man that took pity on him. Upon his escape he arrived in the wilderness by eating roots and nuts until he finally rejoined his group in Calicut. Reunited with his entourage Ibn Battuta arrived in Zaytun, China where he declared that “there is no
The expedition’s co-leader was a man named William Clark and he was 32 years old. Clark was Lewis’s friend from the military and both Lewis and Clark had been armature scientist and had conducted business with the Native Americans. The expedition left St. Louis in 1804 and slowly worked its way up the Missouri river. Lewis and Clark kept a journal they encountered Native Americans and they encountered many animals and also Native American groups and one young Shoshone girl named Sacagawea joined their group as a guide. After 18 months and 4,000 miles they headed back.
Marco kept detailed journals, where he recorded his impressions of the terrain. When he first saw the great Gobi Desert, more than 500,000 square miles (805,000 km) of sand, he wrote: "This desert is reported to be so long that it would take a year to go from end to end... There is nothing at all to eat." The Polos stopped for a year in the Mongol region, where they learned about the lives and civilization of the people there. When the Polos reached Cathay to stay with the emperor Kublai Khan, Marco impressed the ruler with his
He is famous for his traveling miles through Asia and being one of the first Europeans to travel into Mongolia and China. He introduced Europeans to central Asia and China by writing about his travels. An example of an educational expedition would be the Duke of Edinburgh award. The Duke of Edinburgh is the same as a group expedition except it is done for educational purposes. It involves camping for a certain amount of nights and walking for a certain distance depending whether they are doing the gold, silver or bronze award.
The People's Republic of China invaded that same year. Fearing assassination, he and thousands of followers fled to Dharamsala in northern India, where they established an alternative government. Since then, the Dalai Lama has taken numerous actions in hopes of establishing an autonomous Tibetan state within the People's Republic of China. Early Life Lhamo Thondup was born on July 6, 1935 in Taktser, China, northeast of Tibet, to a peasant family. He is the head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharamshala, India.
As consequence of the profoundness of these cultural ties, hundred of Chinese scholars were the student of the famous Nalanda University much before the advent of Christ. Up to the 19th century, the scholars of the two counties visited each other and strengthened the cultural relationship. In ancient times, if the Indian scholars like Dharmaratha, Kumarajiva, Buddhajiva, Dharmakshema and Sanghabhuti visited China, the Chinese scholars Fa-hein, Sung-Yun, It-Sing and Huentsang came to India. Among them Huentsang was the Chairman of a Buddhist conference sponsored by the Indian Emperor Harshavardhana. The way Huentsang and Fah-Yan enriched the Indian history by their writings, they became inseparable part of it.