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| bio | website | dnselite.com |
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| location | China | |
| age | 36 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | Apr 2 at 6:55 | |
| stats | profile views | 16 |
I am an English teacher, born in Scotland but I have been living in China since 2006. In my spare time I build websites and write articles about China. I am also a keen travel photographer and contributor to Getty Images stock library.
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Oct 13 |
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Who were the Huns and/or Xiongnu? @Noldorin, I should perhaps have said the "Eurasian Steppes" are bigger than the modern European Union. Thank you. Pedantry is a gift I have yet to master. It is quite plausible that the Xiongnu were forced westward but there is no evidence and there are other explanations that are more suited to the facts. Have a look at the set of maps here to see the movements of tribes at that time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asia_001ad.jpg (with more maps linked below the first). |
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Oct 12 |
awarded | Student |
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Oct 12 |
asked | Were there originally seats in the elevators in the Eiffel Tower? |
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Oct 12 |
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Who were the Huns and/or Xiongnu? To my reading of the histories, Hun and Xiongu are not one and the same people. For starters they occupy different periods of time. The Xiongu disappearing from Chinese history hundreds of years before the Hun appear in the west. Additionally, the central Asian steps are a big area, bigger than the whole of Europe, that could have had many empires and nations that history didn't record. |
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Oct 12 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Oct 12 |
answered | Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom? |
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Oct 12 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Oct 12 |
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Why did Chamberlain act to appease Hitler leading up to the outbreak of World War 2? Upped this. Even when war started, they didn't really want it and hoped it would go away before any real shooting started. Hence the phoney war at the start of WWII. |
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Oct 12 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
