Bandits were a common threat along the Silk Road. The bandits learned that not only silk was being traveled through those roads, but also gold, precious stones, glass, and other materials from China.
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In the 19th-century United States, racism was rampant. Chinese immigrants were openly mocked, often in unfavorable newspaper caricatures. Germans were stereotyped as loitering in beer halls. African-Americans were portrayed in demeaning advertisements. And Irish people — who were not considered "white" by the existing majority at the time — were mistreated, too.
More than 1.5 million people left Ireland for the United States between 1845 and 1855, the survivors of a potato famine that had wiped out more than 1 million people in their homeland. They arrived poor, hungry and sick, and then crowded into cramped tenements in Boston, New York and other Northeastern cities to start anew under difficult conditions.
The struggles of Irish immigrants were compounded by the poor treatment they received from the white, primarily Anglo-Saxon and Protestant establishment. America's existing unskilled workers worried they would be replaced by immigrants willing to work for less than the going rate. And business owners worried that Irish immigrants and African-Americans would band together to demand increased wages.
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True
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The isolation period in Japan, known in Japanese as Sakoku, meaning "closed country", started in 1639 by Tokugawa lemitsu, the third Shōgun (military dictator) of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The period of Sakoku lasted until 1853, when American Navy Official Mathew Perry use military force to compel Japan to open its ports to trade.
During this period, the only contact that Japan had with the world was through with China through the port of Nagasaki, and with the Dutch, who had a small factory in the town of Dejima.
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It established that royalty were also subject to the law.
<span>What term identifies the name of cords and knots of various colors used by the Inca to keep tax and census records?
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