-0 BCStart of construction of the rice terraces with sophisticated irrigation technology in and around Banaue, the "Eighth Wonder of the World" A balangay, the first known ships in the Philippines Similar dwellings were found in Guam Pottery, about 2000 years old, from Sultan Kudarat ...
The museum was one of four major projects launched by the scientific committee of the Jiangnan Society of Jesuits. Founded in 1872 during a meeting in Xujiahui, the committee later oversaw the founding of a museum, a history and geology research center, a scientific publishing house...
1944 Bataan Robert Taylor In the Philippines, Americans try to survive 1944 The Sands of Iwo Jima John Wayne The Army raises men to fight the war against Japan 1945 Fat Man and Little Boy Paul Newman The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb 1946 Ashes and Diamonds Andrzej Wajd...
Location and Geography.Albanians live in ethnically compact settlements in large areas of the southwest part of the Balkan peninsula, primarily in the Republic of Albania with its centrally located capital city of Tirana and in the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo. The Republic of Albania, which...
The Jesuits became the first worldwide order, accomplishing more than Queen Isabella’s knights ever had to carry out her dream of spreading Catholicism to the new global Spanish Empire. In his battle against the Reformation, Ignatius made Jesuits in the tradition of medieval romance, knights who...
Jesuits Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism. Devshirme Ottoman policy of taking boys from Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers ...
Founds the Jesuits; Writes "Spiritual Exercises" Term "Spiritual Exercises" Definition Plans for prayer and meditation for day-to-day practice Term What happened at the Fourth Crusade? Definition The sacking of Constantinople by the Turks Term What brought out the fact that Native Americans were ...
and Daoism converged. Ricci’s map of 1602 was the material expression of the perception of the world by the Jesuits and his Chinese collaborators. Through cartography the Jesuits were putting aside the Sinocentric vision of China and the world that portrayed westerners as barbarians. This was an...
the 1540s. Through the influence of the Jesuits, who accompanied the Portuguese merchants and had some success in spreading their gospel, they had obtained a safe harbour at Nagasaki, on the west coast of Kyushu. Every year a huge Portuguese carrack sailed from Macau to Nagasaki carrying ...
transformation during the Meiji State (1868+1890); emergence of Europe and the USA as great military-industrial powers; Africa threatened by European imperialism; the Cuban Revolution; the Spanish- American War and Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Hawaii; the balance of power in ...