History of Asia essays

Genghis Khan, a Mongolian leader, was born into impoverished and unstable upbringings and rose to create the largest empire in history, covering 11 to 12 million square miles at its zenith. However, his journey commenced as he struggled into the world of the steppe, firmly gripping a large, black blood clot around the size of a knuckle bone. Many speculate that the blood clot foreshadowed and symbolized fortune and eminence, while others perceived the clot as the foretelling of curse...

The first reason why the dropping of the atomic bomb in Japan should be justified is that Japan continued on its aggressive attack even though there were many warnings of the United States during World War II. After Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in 1940, they began in earnest involved in several battles and colonized many countries, taking advantage of them. Before World War II, 1939 to 1945, Japan already achieved its goal to conquer China...

In approximately 1633, a policy of isolation was introduced in Japan which, according to Britannica, created “… a time of internal peace, political stability, and economic growth…”. This period is commonly referred to as the Edo period. After Japan was torn apart through the warring states, the Tokugawa Shogunate took power and commenced an era of isolation that lasted for more than 200 years. When the Tokugawa Shogunate saw the state of Japan, being an unfathomable group, decided to shut...

Shogunate Japan is a period of time during the years 1185 (officially recognized as 1192) to 1867 in which the leading military general, the shoguns, ruled the lands. This era is usually considered to be a time of great growth for Japan: especially economically prospering. However, many choices and events under the rule of the Shogunate have also had a varying detrimental effect on Japan. The Sengoku period was filled with power struggles and warfare between the local warlords and...

In Feudal Japan, the Shogun was the absolute leader in terms of the military. During the decline of the Shogunate, specifically Tokugawa Shogunate, the emperor was not the figure with the most power. Instead, he was just a figure to be worshipped and looked up to while the Shogun ruled. Eventually, this way of running Japan collapsed due to many internal and external factors. Japan started to be criticized by other countries for being extremely closed off and not evolving...

Genghis Khan was born in 1162 throughout his life he did a variety of things some may consider evil or great. Ghengis is primarily known now for having over 16 million descendants. However, he did much more. Genghis Khan born Temüjin was born in Delüün Boldog(Note that I copy and paste names and places because I didn’t know how to write them on my PC). As a young child, he was very timid. He was easily frightened, scared of dogs,...

The shogunate and daimyos viewed the economy in simple agriculturist terms. They saw the economic system where the peasants’ role was to produce basic foods. Peasants were to give a good portion of their products in tax to support the ruling classes. Artisans used their skills to craft necessary non-food items. Finally, goods that could not be acquired through any other means could be purchased from merchants. Merchants were denied the necessary evil of the economic system. However, the Tokugawa...

Multilingual nations exist in all parts of the world, and there are massive examples of it if one wants to study them. Toughness arises only when one attempts to locate a country that is genuinely monolingual.[footnoteRef:1] There appear to be no example of this type. The vast majority of the nation-states of the world have more than one language spoken indigenously within their frontiers. In some cases languages that’s spoken in a country may reach up to hundreds (well of...

Customs practiced within organized and unorganized religion carry deep significance that can be traced back to the foundations of religious belief. The first evidence of religious belief and practice can be found within acts of veneration to the dead during the Paleolithic Period of earth[footnoteRef:1]. Through acts of burial and graveside offering, rituals such as this one has endured for thousands of years and are continually practiced to this day. Like habits performed in daily life, religious rituals enforce structure...

INTRODUCTION The Peranakan Chinese is an appellation referring to the descendants of intermarriage between Chinese immigrants and local Malay women during British colonization of Malaysia (Lonely Planet, 2020). They were able to keep their Chinese heritage but accepted many facets of Malay culture. They also used the terms Straits-born or Straits Chinese to differentiate themselves from later arrivals from China (Lonely Planet, 2020). This report explores the Peranakan acculturation and assimilation in Malaysia. CHINESE MIGRATION TO MALAYSIA Pre-colonial and during...