Such shared features include architecture, frescoes, pottery, jewellery, weaponry, and of course, the Greek language and writing in the form of Linear B an adaptation of the Minoan Linear A).
1 km = 1,000 meters
<span>9 km = 9,000 m </span>
<span>19 km = 19,000 m</span>
<span>If you mean the first one, corruption was one reason. The Chinese navy and military were incredibly corrupt (as was the government) -- funds meant to buy ships and ammunition were often embezzled by officers for other uses.
</span><span>Pay in the army was low, morale was low, compared to the Japanese military which was also modernized but based on Western principles and proven tactics. </span>
The present name<span> of the city, however, dates back to 1699, when French explorers noted a red cypress tree stripped of </span>its<span> bark that marked the boundary between Houma and Bayou Goula tribal hunting grounds. They called the tree "le </span>baton rouge<span>," or red stick. The native </span>name<span> for the site had been Istrouma.</span>
