Not only in the middle Ganga Valley and the kingdoms that emerged on the heels of the Gupta demise, but also in the Deccan and in South India, which acquired a more prominent place in history, the...
Category: Asia
China The Opium War, 1839-42 The use of tea, a relatively new beverage in Western culture, led to a significant expansion of the market for tea in both Europe and America throughout the eighteenth...
Under the direction of Zahir-ud-Din Babur, the descendants of the Mongol, Turkish, Iranian, and Afghan conquerors of South Asia, known as the Mughals, entered India in the early sixteenth century....
The Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was adopted in 1980, proclaims that "citizens enjoy freedom of worship, and may practise or not practise a religion." However, the...
During the second millennium before the common era, a number of migrations carried out by seminomads speaking an Indo-European language took occurred. These preliterate pastoralists were known as...
The history of Vietnam is one that is extensive, eventful, and intriguing. The earliest archaeological finds suggest that humans have been living there as far back as almost half a million years ago;...