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A continent, east of Europe and Africa, separated from Europe by the Ural Mountains in the North, and the Straits of Dardanelles in the south, and separated from Africa by the Suez Canal.
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What would people have been smoking in 700 AD Central / Eastern Asia?
Historically:
They wouldn't have been smoking anything.
This is some evidence that Arabian traders brough opium to Tang dynasty China, and one might reason it could've been accessible to steppe nomads …
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Did Japan have any continental colonies before modern times?
Kind of, but not as such. The closest to what you're probably thinking of is the nihonjin-machi that began to form in the Pacific around the same time as Europe's Renaissance. These were primarily mer …
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Why were China and India able to peacefully co-exist for so long?
Because China was actually pretty far from India.
For most of the past millennia, China and India were not "neighbouring countries" in any meaningful sense of the word. Most Chinese empires did not a …
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Is it true that Proto-Ukrainians conquered Europe and India?
Based on what you've told us, your teacher is most likely thinking of the Proto-Indo-European people (Note: I am NOT saying it is accurate to call the PIE people "Proto-Ukrainians"). According to the …
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What became of the last samurai?
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Roughly speaking, in the early decades after 1867:
~7% became educators
~16% became public servants
~25% became corporate employees
the rest became unemployed or farmers
Overview …