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“Out of 3,000 years of Chinese history, at least 1,100 of them have featured wars. The Roman Empire was at war during at least 50 per cent of its existence. Since 1776, the United States of America has spent over a hundred years at war.”

Creation of America; creation of the People’s Republic of China; rise of European power; WW1, WW2 & the Cold War; American primacy; Japanese independence and power; independence of many Asian countries; fall of the Ottoman empire; rise and fall of the Soviet Union; creation of the European Union and NATO; collapse of the Mughal Empire; French Revolution; Congress of Vienna; Crimean War; rise of Germany

Euro exists because Europe wanted to create a rival currency to America because the American Dollar was the base currency

Beginning of European primacy; beginning of european diplomacy (Westphalia); Bank of England started; collapse of the Ming dynasty; Russian growth; Spanish, Portuguese and English traders set up in Asia; European naval primacy; battles against the Ottoman and the French; fall of the Safavids; rise and fall of Mughal empire; Qing dynasty; London became a global commercial hub; rise and fall of Habsburgs

Aztecs & Incas; birth of Russia; Hundred Years’ War and Wars of the Roses; rise of the Ottomans; Ming empire; Japanese rise; African trade; Spanish and Portuguese conquest

Holy Crusades; Richard the Lionheart; Normandy, France & Brittany; The Mongols & Genghis Khan; the breakdown of Muslim leadership; the breakdown of Byzantine & Constantinople which led to Venice becoming major traders and trading with the Mongols and the Seljuks who were major European threats; the Song empire in China

Islamic war between two empires & religious wars between Christians, Jews, Pagans, Jainists, Taoists, Muslims and Buddhists.

The Maya, the start of Islam and the Franks

“The Jin's reign was over; its realm ruptured, first into two and then four parts. - It was in this context that the teachings of Pure Land Buddhism
became very popular. Through enlightenment, adherents could leave behind the world of sorrows for a bird-filled paradise of peace and plenty. The escapism of the Pure Land's teachings coincided with a particular low in China's history.”

“Plagues of locusts devoured the rice crop; when one official informed the emperor that his people were eating grass because of this, he cynically retorted: ‘Why don't they eat meat porridge?’”

“At its heart, empire was about advancing the privileges of a small capital area over those of a large surrounding hinterland, and about promoting the interests of a small rich elite over those of the large
numbers of poor and needy.”

The Maurya Dynasty in India (founded on Buddhism) was the only predominantly peaceful region in the world from 500-250 BCE

Tortillas were created by the Olmec on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico - experts argue it was the first food that could be carried over long distances in a humid environment, which helped feed troops on campaign.