Adam Brown > Quotes

“On the relationship between hard work and success, it has been said: “If you want to be above ordinary people, you must be ready at all times to take arduous and tedious training as your greatest pleasure. ”
― Adam Brown, China: A History of China and East Asia: Ancient China, Economy, Communism, Capitalism, Culture, Martial Arts, Medicine, Military, People including Mao Zedong, Confucius, and Sun Tzu [3rd Edition]

“Initially the caste system was simply a reflection of the occupation one held but over time it seems to have transformed into a categorization by birth. People could not change what caste they were born into and could only change over to a new caste through inter-marriage. This system was ultimately derived from the belief that an individual’s status was set by an all-powerful deity.”
― Adam Brown, World History: Ancient History, United States History, European, Native American, Russian, Chinese, Asian, African, Indian and Australian History, Wars including World War 1 and 2 [4th Edition]

“Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti turned their backs on the old religion and introduced the worship of Aten. Historians believe that it was they who introduced the world’s first monotheistic religion.”
― Adam Brown, World History: Ancient History, United States History, European, Native American, Russian, Chinese, Asian, African, Indian and Australian History, Wars including World War 1 and 2 [4th Edition]

“conurbations”
― Adam Brown, World History: Ancient History, United States History, European, Native American, Russian, Chinese, Asian, African, Indian and Australian History, Wars including World War 1 and 2 [4th Edition]

“He massacred the Jews because he believed them to be the reason for Germany’s demise in World War I. Lebensraum, or living space, involved obtaining extra dominion in the east and the oppression of the Slavic race.”
― Adam Brown, World History: Ancient History, United States History, European, Native American, Russian, Chinese, Asian, African, Indian and Australian History, Wars including World War 1 and 2 [4th Edition]

“education could develop a human being into an exemplary individual was known as junzi. This process involved persistent development of the self through continuous social contact. He”
― Adam Brown, China: A History of China and East Asia: Ancient China, Economy, Communism, Capitalism, Culture, Martial Arts, Medicine, Military, People including Mao Zedong, Confucius, and Sun Tzu [3rd Edition]

“Blacks wеrе nоt allowed tо ѕhоw рubliс аffесtiоn toward one another in рubliс, еѕресiаllу kiѕѕing, bесаuѕе it offended whitеѕ.”
― Adam Brown, African American History: Slavery, Underground Railroad, People Including Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks