Do you think that he could be successful? What unusual hobby did Montezuma have? Sun Falcon was buried during an elaborate rituals at Cahokia, the largest residential and ceremonial site in ancient North America. The largest surviving mound is “Monks Mound” is a huge terraced pyramid rising one hundred feet from a base that covers sixteen acres. More than 270 people had been buried in the mounds with Sun Falcon The first humans beings to arrive in the Western Hemisphere emigrated from Asia.
-Qing Dynasty was a Chinese name for dynasty that ruled for 260 years. -Manchus were the people of the region. -Zheng He was a Chinese Muslim admiral. -Yonglo was Hongwu’s son. -Hongwu commanded the rebel army that drove the Mongols out of China.
It was known for its ambitious use of fire ships. (Wikipedia 5) Zhu’s force consisted of over 200,000 Ming sailors and they were able to defeat the Han rebel force, which consisted of over 650,000 sailors. The victory destroyed the last opposing rebel faction, leaving Zhu Yuanzhang in control of the Yangtze River Valley and spreading his power in the south. (Wikipedia 6 ) Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be very suspicious of “the educated courtiers around him and exerted and extremely authoritarian regime, which was known as “the tyrant of Nanjing”. (China tour 3) This harsh government style was because of the influence of governmental institutions of a previous Mongol period that was marked by a strong centralization.
In the mid-12th century, the Turkic ruler Saladin rose to lead the Seljuks and succeeded in uniting the fragmented Muslim armies of Southwest Asia and North Africa. To Saladin, the Christian armies were the infidels that had to be evicted. When Saladin’s forces took Jerusalem, the call went out across Europe to launch another crusade. Three kings came forward-Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of Germany, King Phillip II of France, and King Richard I, later known as Richard the Lionheart of England. Held in 1187-1192.
Politics Islam and Hinduism constantly clashed, causing wars. Delhi Sultanate- Between 13th and 16th centuries, 33 sultans ruled over divided territory in Delhi. Babur gained a small part of this empire, which was later taken away. With a forceful army he acquired the land he lost as well as more, establishing the Mughal Empire. Babur’s grandson, Akbar (Great) unified the land and people.
But the French were opposed by a Vietnamese army called the Viet Minh. The Viet Minh had been founded in 1941 by the communist party and was led by Hồ Chí Minh. In July 1954, France and the Viet Minh signed the Geneva Peace Accord. The Viet Minh became the gov ernment of North Vietnam while anti-communist Vietnamese, especially Catholics, "regrouped" in the South under the leadership of Bao Dai, a former emperor of Vietnam who had abdicated in 1945. What impact this period of time had on the environment: Vietnam was temporarily partitioned at the 17th parallel, and under the terms of the Geneva Accords, civilians were to be given the opportunity to move freely between the two provisional states for a 300-day period.
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
The Han dynasty, which lasted from approximately 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E., was founded by Liu Bang (pronounced LEO-BONG), a man born to a peasant family. Liu, the king of the state of Han, rose to power after the Qin dynasty collapsed in 206 B.C.E. After defeating the various groups that were vying for power after Qin Shi Huang Di's death, Liu became emperor and made his capital at Chang An (pronounced CHAHNG-AHN), in north central China. One of only two commoners ever to found a Chinese dynasty, Liu proved to be a talented and skillful ruler.
His performance on the battlefield earned him noteriety as a warrior king in the Frankish history, one who would make the Franks a force in the world once contained in the Roman Empire. Charlemagne began his conquest soon after his brother died. He began taking out all threats. Charlemagne’s most demanding military undertaking waged him against the Saxons, longtime enemies of the Franks, whose wars lasted more than 30 years (772 to 804). This long battle, which led to the combining of a large block of territory between the Rhine and the Elbe rivers, was marked by destruction of property, broken truces, hostage taking, mass murder, deportation of rebellious Saxons, forcing people to accept Christianity, and occasional Frankish defeats.
This in turn led to things such as the American Revolution and the commonly known phrase “taxation without representation”. With the rapid spread of Colonialism and the eventual lead into Imperialism, this led to tensions between nations as they struggled to gain more territory and more colonies. These tensions ultimately brought about World War