“Oh yes, I like the Doctor. Its funny, but as soon as he walked in, I felt that you could trust him„ ~ Vicki after meeting the Doctor for the first time. “There is something new in you, yet there is something older than the sky itself.„ ...
Overall, the rise of the shogun wasbeneficial for Japan. Japan enjoyed a period of peace and stability under them. Trade increased and culture thrived as well. Moreover, they were able to ward off the Mongol invasions of Kublai Khan. What was adopted directly from China by Japan? What was...
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roughly in the location of latter-day Circassia, Chechnya, Ingushetia, and modern North Ossetia–Alania, from its independence from the Khazars in the late 9th century until its destruction by the Mongol ...
" Of course, it is just possible that, since this was the last film on the Duke's contract with Howard Hughes-owned RKO pictures, the big guy may have wanted to intentionally stick the rich guy with a clinker. In this uproarious tale, the Mongol generalissimo consolidates his power a...
century Arabic travelogue,Accounts of China and Indiaby Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī. Islam and China were never entirely separate worlds, whether due to earlier Muslim contacts with the distant Tang empire, or because of the powerful Mongol legacy that unitedPersia and Chinain the late-medieval period...
After a year in China, the Polo brothers were sent back to Europe by Kublai Khan who wanted them to deliver a letter from him to Pope Clement IV. In this letter, the Khan asked the Pope to send him a hundred learned men to teach his people about Christianity and Western science, and...
I had heard about racism and xenophobia as issues, but I had never really seen the extent to which they were things real people actually did. “See, for eleven years, I lived twenty minutes south of the birthplace of the KKK, right on the edge of what is, for all intents and ...
After briefly materialising in Trafalgar Square during the New Year’s Eve night of 1966, the TARDIS landed near a pyramid in ancient Egypt. Not only was The Monk there, but so were the Daleks, who had discovered that their Taranium Core was a fake. After stealing the directional unit fr...
Once their training was completed, they were given their freedom and then employed in the Mamluk armies. Mamluk training was well organized and thorough – and documented. On the battlefield, the Mamluk armies were formidable opponents. During the period of the Mongol invasions of Syria, between...