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Generally we speak of " dark ages " . However, Historians prefer the terms "late antiquity " or "high middle ages" ( it cover the periode from 476 A.D to circa 1000 AD
Marco Polo made an impact to later on European travelers, by his travels and discoveries. Marco Polo was known by a man that had many travels and he survived many of them, even though they had diseases and the fatigue of the travel. In his book that he wrote called The Travels of Marco Polo focuses mainly on descriptions of spices and commercial goods and many other interesting trade items he encountered in his travels. Marco Polo had a great impact on the area of what is now China. Because of his travels through the Eastern areas, he brought some of the cultures to the East and he also took some of the East cultures back to the West. However, Marco Polo wasn't able to fully connect the West with the East, so he engaged the future European explores to interact more with the Eastern areas. Many explorers also then had the curiosity to know and discover different places like Marco Polo. Another famous explorer that also made a big impact was Christopher Columbus which who discover America, and he also brought the cultures.
Gibbons v. Ogden,was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation. The case was argued by some of America's most admired and capable attorneys at the time. Exiled Irish patriot Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J. Oakley argued for Ogden, while U.S. Attorney General William Wirt and Daniel Webster argued for Gibbons.
The primary argument for Japanese imperial expansion, especially in China, was that the Japanese were the superior race, and thus had a rite and obligation to dominate other, inferior cultures.
