period and exhibit responses that are not in support for Buddhism. Document four comes across as very ethnocentric and insults Buddhism and the Buddha. Due to the very ethnocentric view of the Chinese‚ the scholar calls the Buddha and his people barbarians due to the fact that they are foreign and not Chinese. He wanted to preserve ancient Chinese Confucian traditions and was against the demonstration of the Buddha’s finger relic because it is full of evil and may influence the people to make flesh
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Roman soldiers took great pride in what they did‚ and the Roman army originally consisted largely of Romans. However‚ Rome began to use the barbarians because they thought that they were less civilized‚ more hardened‚ and that they were bigger and more brutal in terms of fighting. Also‚ during the third century‚ Rome had a series of invasions and civil wars‚ which led to a shortage of troops and
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The Emergence of Europe In the Early Middle Ages: The Germanic Tribes‚ the Roman Legacy‚ and the Christian Church Marina Lundstrom History 114 – Western Civilization & The World I Due: November 8‚ 2014 After the fall of the Roman Empire around the fifth century‚ it took “hundreds of years” for the western part of Europe “to establish a new society.”1 The emergence of this new European civilization during a period known as the Early Middle Ages‚ included three major components: the
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Case Study: RJR Nabisco By July 20‚ 2013 One of the most famous leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that have has been studied is the RJR Nabisco LBO. There was also a movie made about this LBO entitled Barbarians at the Gate‚ which you may be interested in watching. Review this case study in Chapter 7 of your text and conduct your own research. In a 3–4-page case study‚ address the following: 1. Discuss the background of the case. Who were the players? What prompted this leveraged buyout (LBO)
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Medieval Period: Mid-5th – mid 9thC (c.450-850CE) Augustine died in 430 as the Vandals were besieging his city of Hippo. Some 20 years before‚ Rome had fallen. In the West the ancient empire was a thing of the past; in its place a variety of `barbarian kingdoms’‚ although for the most part considering themselves a part of the Roman Empire. New circumstances called for re-appraisal of the church: its position and purposes. A pragmatic response to changed circumstances was called for. Theological
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The great wall of china Traditionally known to the Chinese as the "Long Wall of Ten Thousand Li"‚ the stretch of formidable defensive structures built to ward off invasion of the Celestial Empire by barbarians is most often called the "Great Wall" or the "Wall of China" by Europeans. History of the Great Wall of China The history of these extraordinary fortifications goes back to the Chunqiu period (722-481 B.C.) and to the Warring States period (453-221 B.C.)‚ so-called because of the long struggle
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or hates another race or culture. This also means prejudice and discrimination. Racism started long ago even before slavery with the Africans or blacks. For an example‚ the Greeks and Romans didn’t like the Barbarians which were people who lived in northern Europe. They called them barbarians because they didn’t have the education or lifestyle the way the Greeks and Romans lived. Just like the white people called Africans; niggers‚ which the true definition is an ignorant person. Why‚ because we
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believed that only Athenians were “pure” Greeks and that barbarians (such as Spartans or Thebes) must be kept out of the city. Socrates’ belief may have stemmed from a fear of Athen’s outsiders‚ as the Greek political environment was very unsteady. A renowned philosopher‚ Socrates is an example of how these harsh beliefs were not exclusively held by the uneducated‚ but societies as a whole. Similar to how Socrates may have feared Greek “barbarians‚” Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty seems to have feared
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TITLE: GLADIATOR PLOT: The story is about Maximus‚ one of the leading generals in the Roman army. He led the Romans to victory in a decisive battle with the Barbarians that ended a long war between them. This victory helped him gain trust and favour from the old Emperor Marcus Aurelius‚ which is now old and near his end. Emperor Aurelius wishes to appoint Maximus as the temporary leader of Rome‚ even though he has a son‚ Commodus. Commodus‚ being told by his father that he would not be the appointed
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northeastern territories and the His Hsia controlled the northwestern territories. The Song emperors were unable to recover these lands so they were forced to make peace with the Khitans and the Hsi Hsia. They gave massive amounts of payments to the barbarians‚ under these peace terms‚ it depleted the state treasury and cause heavy payments on taxpaying peasants. About 100 years after the Songs first started ruling over China‚ their government started to go through a major decline. Officials that held
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