aThis significantly highlights the fact that one of the earliest Protestant missionaries in the Philippines had served in South Fujian and considered his forerunners, Dr. Abeel and Dr. Boone, as the ones who laid the inner foundation for his own ministry in the Islands. 这极大突出事实一个最早...
Preserved ancient botanical evidence in the form of rice phytoliths has confirmed that people farmed domesticated rice (Oryza sativa) in the interior of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, by at least 3,500 years ago. This discovery helps to resolve a myste
As recently as 1972, a tribe of cave - dwellers in the Philippines couldn't answer the question “How many people are there in your tribe?”, although they could individually list all 24 members of their group. And one tribe who lives on the edge of the Amazon jungle, even today, has...
Fifteen. 4.We can infer from the passage that . . Guangzhou served as a major trading port in China . the sea routes in the Tang Dynasty were the longest . before the Han Dynasty, Guangzhou had no relationship with foreigners . people in Guangzhou preferred to go abroad ...
The authors respond to article which discussed their article about similarities in prehistoric languages and pottery between the early Chamorro people of the Mariana islands and the northern Philippines. The authors argue that historical records of voyaging conditions are not relevant to the ancient ...
Since I bought the book in 1970 (in Beirut, of all places), the proportions may not be entirely up to date -- it looks like the population of Africa has doubled in the meantime. The book completely overlooked the Philippines, whose population now is about four times that of Taiwan (...
THE Aeta people, a nomadic tribe of dwindling numbers, once lived on the fertile slopes of Mt. Pinatubo in the northern Philippines. When the volcano exploded last year, it killed hundreds of the people it had sustained for centuries. Hundreds more - mostly children - have died in ramshackle...