What did China do after the First Opium War? What did China export to the U.K. before the Opium Wars? Did the Opium Wars mark the start of modern China? What nation humiliated China during the Opium Wars? How was the Taiping Rebellion influenced by the Opium Wars?
Why did the Six-Day War happen? Why did the War on Terror involve Pakistan? Why did the Boshin War start? Why did the War on Terror increase the U.S. economy? Why is the war on terror difficult to win? Why did the War on Terrorism target Afghanistan?
How Did The Opium War Affect China China has 5000 years of history which experienced wars, collapses, failures and successes. The Opium War in the year 1839 and 1856 marked the changing point of China’s trade policy with foreigners, especially with British in opium and tea. China changed fr...
Developing a company’s global strategy – which, by definition, includes a China strategy – requires a deep understanding of China’s evolving role in the new world, a basic knowledge of the fundamental reasons why and how China works, and a clear-eyed view of the implications of the new...
Why did the East India Company use sepoys? The East Indian Company and Sepoys: When the English established the East India Company in the early 1600s, they also became involved in domestic affairs in India. There were occasional wars and other social calamities in India throughout the 1600s ...
Why did Modern Science not Emerge in China DouXujie Abstract: Why did the modern science not emerge in China? This is a famous question that first put forward by the famous scholar Joseph Needham in his book science and civilization in china. I would like to give an answer by explaining ...
I also begin the process of unveiling the psychological roots of our dilemma. Being a depth psychotherapist as well as a student of culture across all time periods informed my conclusions, shaped them, and took me to visions of possible futures that I did not expect. For all we have done ...
Yet this same “intelligence,” after many months of American air attacks and special forces operations into the badlands of the Pakistani-Afghanistan frontier, has failed to capture Osama. Obama, calling Afghanistan, “the central front in the war against terrorism,” preaches that he wants to...
And no, it’s not just people whowantto travel who are more creative; it’s the travel itself. Among three groups of students (those who studied abroad, those who planned to study abroad, and those who did not), the ones who actually traveled to another countryoutperformed their peersin...
One of the things that drew me to being a historian in the first place was the feeling that the world didn't necessarily have to turn out the way that it did turn out so far. Was it possible for the world to be radically different from the world we live in? What would it be like...