An ethnic group originally from somewhere north of China (perhaps western Manchuria), which subsequently spread through migratio
n and conquest across the steppes into Central Asia; by the 800s many served as servants within the Umayyad caliphate, and by the 900s many were soldiers or even generals under the Abbasids and its successor states--before eventually taking over much of the Asian portion of the Islamic world (perhaps in the process saving Sunni Islam as the dominant branch of the faith) __________________
USA did make many bombing campaigns against North Vietnam, which only alienated the population but could not degrade the fighting force of the Vietcong. ... Support of China /USSR: One of the most crucial reasons for the defeat of the USA was the unflinching support of China and the Soviet Union to the North Vietnam.
