Day Of Empire Summer Reading Essay Empires have dominated our globe for centuries on‚ yet no one has linked the connection between how these empires rise‚ and what causes their reign to end. Through collective studies‚ Day Of Empire author Amy Chua presents a persuasive theory which argues that hyper powers achieved their world dominance through tolerance of culture and religion‚ as well as the individuals residing in the conquered society‚ amassing their talents for the benefit of the
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der Empire ComparisonThe Ottoman Empire and Mughal Empire both being “Gunpowder Empires” faced similar issues. Both empires faced inadequate transportation and communication systems‚ both faced poor bureaucracies‚ and competing with rival empires. The first problem was inadequate transportation and communication systems. Although they had the necessary military technology to control their empires‚ transporting it to where it was needed was another issue. The larger they grew‚ the more difficult
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In the short story The Taste of Apples‚ Huang Chun-ming uses the experience of the Jiang family’s first time tasting an apple to symbolize the invasion of American culture in Taiwan. Huang portrays the invasion of American culture throughout the story by comparing and contrasting food‚ values and beliefs of the Jiang family and those of the Americans. Even with Jiang Ah-fa‚ the head of the Jiang family in the hospital with both of his legs broken after getting hit by a well-off American driver‚ the
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had gained prominence during the Yuan‚ again flourished with the prosperous economy of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming scholars formed a unique taste towards life and art and often painted the elegant‚ refined life scenes. Luckily‚ in the Johnson Museum collection‚ there is the painting New Year’s Gathering by Wen Zhengming‚ which
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In late-Ming China‚ even though tea drinking had been accepted by the whole society‚ tea tasting remained its aesthetic function‚ in which people believed that it could reflect the taste and the social status of the drinkers. The relationship between taste and social status has been studied by some scholars. In the very influential Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste‚ Pierre Bourdieu argues that taste‚ the faculty of perceiving beauty and the capacity to discern aesthetic values
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The Greatest Islamic Empire By S. Franklin Islamic History The three major empires in Islamic history were the Ottoman Empire‚ the Safavid Empire‚ and the Mughal Empire. The Mughals claimed legitimacy by their ancestor‚ Tamer-the-Lame. Mughals were fairly tolerant of non-Muslims‚ as the majority of the common people in their empire were Hindus. This empire occupied most of modern day India‚ Nepal‚ and Pakistan. The Safavids controlled most of modern day Afghanistan‚ Iran‚ Turkmenistan
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The Safavid‚ Mughal‚ and Ottoman empires all depended in some way on the allegiance of non-Muslims to the empire. The Ottoman emperors were kinder on their conquered people‚ and the main separation between Muslims and non-Muslims in the empire was the tax on the dhimmis (non-Muslims). The Safavid leaders were more forceful in this regard. They imposed on subjects to convert to Islam unless they were an asset in trading with Europe. However‚ the leaders of the Mughal Empire‚ starting with Akbar‚ were
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Differed ways to consume tea resulted in different ways of using tea wares. Compared to the typical way of tea drinking in the late-Ming period‚ the process of tea-tasting in the Tang and Song dynasties were much more complicated. The complication implied that tea connoisseurs in the Ming era had drastically simplified the tea vessels they often used‚ as well as the whole procedure of tea tasting. The understandings of Tang-style tea drinking have been significantly transformed by the re-apparition
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The Ottomans‚Safavids‚and Mughals were powerful Muslim empires that were successful due to their access to gunpowder‚and good leadership early on in the start of the empires.The 3 gunpowder empires had difficulty sustaining power due to mistreatment of peasantry‚and poor leadership‚ which led to their decline in 1700 CE. One of the reasons that the empires were so successful‚ was because of gunpowder‚which gave them an advantage over other nations.This is shown when Father Paul Simon wrote about
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three major Muslim empires controlled a large part of the land extending from eastern Europe and northern Africa to eastern India. All three of these dynasties had their roots in nomadic Turkish-speaking peoples of central Asia. These three Muslim empires shared similar political and cultural guidelines and traditions that their ancestors had adopted. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries‚ these dynasties were the most dominant‚ by the eighteenth century‚ these empires had significantly
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