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Reading history critically means reading with the awareness that the author has their own point of view, a bias one way or the other. There's a saying: "History books are written by the winners." For example, imagine a US army report on the effect of dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima.
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It´s difficult to provide a simple answer to that question. There maybe more than one answer. It depends on the views each person has, on cultural and individual values.
The Mongols were seen as barbarians by the Chinese. They didn´t follow Chinese customs and social norms, and anybody outside the circle of Chinese culture was taken as a barbarian. Besides, China - Zhongguo, the Middle Kingdom - always saw itself as the center of civilization. After their conquest of imperial China, the Mongols adopted Chinese norms and assimilated to Chinese culture, just as it has happened with other foreign conquerors, which constitutes an acknowledgement of Chinese sophistication.
By their global conquest - the Mongol hordes reached Europe and Southeast Asia - they put together into one political entity many former kingdoms and lands that had had no previous contact with each other. Curiously enough, Mongol expansion was a vehicle of Chinese culture during the Yuan dinasty, founded by Mongols rulers in imperial China.
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In the 1990s, many companies began to downsize. This was partly because of the recession that began in July of 1990.
<span>It was the Crusades.
The Crusades was a campaign to regain the Holy Land from the Muslim
invaders after they took it over. Some
came to fight for that goal while others joined to see new lands while some
were after the riches that be taken from that area. Many were promised forgiveness of their sins
if they joined the Crusades. Still, some
of the effects of the Crusade were that the Mediterranean was open to trade as
soldiers and markets were established.
Other effects were that it led to the growth of towns and cities as the
nobility sold their lands to join the Crusades and the people gained their
freedom. Finally with the growth of towns, feudalism was weakened.</span>
