ITINERARY TO JAPAN 6 Days Saturday‚ April 13 04.35-Meet at Suvarnabhumi Airport 05.00-Check-in at Row H-J Thai Airways International 07.35-Depart from Bangkok to Narita Airport by TG676 15.45-Arrive at Narita Airport Tokyo [Japan time] 16.00-Immigration Process 16.45-Transport from Narita airport to the city by either Skyliner or Narita Express 17.30-Check in at the Hotel 18.00-Dinner time Sunday‚ April 14 07.00-Leave the hotel for Asakusa area 07.30-Have Breakfast
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all the more curious. To make sure Europe would not fight over the land they met in Berlin in 1884-1885. They decided that to divide up the land they would claim it and show they had control over it. This is when everyone began grabbing the land. By 1914 the only free countries were Liberia and Ethiopia. Soon after the colonization‚ Europe began building plantations that grew products anywhere from peanuts to rubber. They took tin and copper from the Congo‚ diamonds and gold from South Africa. In
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culture‚ by contrast‚ conversations tend to be about seeking areas of common ground. Expression of a contrasting opinion is avoided. If it must be done‚ it is done as carefully as possible. In contrast‚ in Japan there is a tendency to conflate feelings about a person and feelings about their ideas. In Japan‚ to express direct disagreement with someone can easily be interpreted as not liking or not respecting him. Ways: Be sure to ask non-threatening questions‚ such as: "Please explain more of the background
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Russian History 1881 – 1914 What was Russia like in 1881? • 82% of the population were illiterate peasant farmers. • No technology was used on farms – subsistence farming. • Largest standing army in Europe. • No political parties and the press was heavily censored. • Fierce loyalty to the Tsar – often enforced by brutal secret police. • Royalty owned most of the land – Tsar’s estate was larger than some countries. • 1861 – Tsar Alexander II freed
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Western civilization changed dramatically between 1450 and 1750. While remaining an agricultural society‚ the West became very commercially active and developed a strong manufacturing sector. Many of the core areas of the West transformed; governments increased their powers‚ science became the centerpiece of intellectual life and ideas on family and marriage changed. These changes resulted from overseas expansion and increasing commercial dominance. Russia on the other hand was heavily concerned
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Spanish piece of eight was international currency • Silver made the world go round • How did it work? o Made in Peru or the mines o To Acapulco (Mexico port) o Then to Spanish Galleons o Then to Manila • Then they get spices‚ silk back • Japan also discovered Silver o Much of it went into Qing China • Why? Because China had to pay taxes with Silver • Raised Mulberry trees for silk-a cash crop • Econ. Dev. led to deforestation • Economically o Spain benefits at first • Problem
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Unit 5: Disillusion‚ Defiance‚ and Discontent (1914-1946) “We asked the cyclone to go around our barn but it didn’t hear us.” -Carl Sandburg from The People‚ Yes Carl Sandburg was an American writer‚ best known for his poetry during modernism. The quote means people like to think they are in control and then something like this happens‚ and they realize that they ’re not. The themes of the work is implied not stated Timeline The most significant ten year period is from 1920 to 1930 because
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Basic Features at Beginning of Time Period Key Continuities Key Changes Basic Features at end of Period Reasons for CCOT Global Trade Slave Trade(West Coast of Africa and Plantations in America Columbian Exchange Trade is important to dependent countries. Global Trade Exploded along with increasing globalization (age of exploration‚ colonies‚ etc Slave Trade and cotton‚ tobacco sugar European Exploration caused more trading of various crops Commercial Revolution (banking‚ loans‚ finance) Mercantilism
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たいしかん | taishikan | embassy | 〜じん | -jin | person from ... | アメリカじん | amerikajin | American (person) | あなた | anata | you | はい | hai | Yes (acknowledgement) | にほん | nihon | Japan | にほんじん | nihonjin | Japanese (person) | いいえ | iie | No | ひしょ | hisho | secretary | ちゅうごく | chuugoku | China | ちゅうごくじん | chuugokujin | Chinese (person) | ドイツ | doitsu
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equal to the load of nearly 200 B-29 bombers. Everyone has heard of these famous bombings. Yet some people still try to justify them. Although the U.S. was only retaliating from the Pearl Harbor attacks‚ the use of an atomic weapon on Japan is not justifiable. Japan was
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