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This is a list-type question, and "key-player" a rather wobbly defined term.
Therefore, this answer is a community wiki. Please help to fill in the gaps.
Franz Sigel
Friedrich Hecker
Lorenz Brentano
Carl Schurz
Edward Salomon
Gustav Struve
Karl Bernays
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Song chanceller Jia Sidao apparently kept information on the Mongol invasion from Song Emperor Duzong. The story goes that one day a palace maid told the Emperor that Xiangyang had been besieged for years, after which Jia Sidao had the maid executed.
See this source, or Wikipedia's articles on the Battle of Xiangyang, Jia Sidao, and Emperor Duzong.
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India
The classical Latin was "India" taken from the Sanskrit "Sindhu" and Persian "Hindu" possibly referring to any large river which formed a natural border. The Greeks picked it up from the Persians as Indós (Ἰνδός) and Herodotus talks about India, some of it is actually true.
Eastward of India lies a tract which is entirely ...
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India is named after the Indus river. The name of the river is probably quite ancient. It was used for an area close to the Indus river ("Hidus") by the Persians under Darius I and then by Herodot and subsequently by other Greek and Latin authors.
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