Under the Chinese Dragon A Tale of Mongolia by Brereton, F. S., 1872- (Frederick Sadleir)

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Headlines in history the 1400s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Politics in fifteenth-century Europe -- Eyewitness to the battle of agincourt -- Joan of arc -- Conquest of constantinople -- Eyewitness to Turkish invasion -- Spanish inquisition -- Life of John Hus -- Ivan the great unifies Russia -- Flowering culture of the ming dynasty -- Chapter 2 -- Citizen armies of England -- Fifteenth-century home life -- Women in the middle ages -- Keeping clean -- Medieval medical practices -- Fashions of the renaissance -- Sailing to the holy land -- Rules for clergymen -- Chapter 3 -- Travels in fifteenth-century venice -- Renaissance rulers of florence -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Leonardo's ideas on flying -- Renaissance in music -- Printing press changes the world -- Chapter 4 -- Building of the Aztec empire -- Quetzalcoatl: Great God of the Aztecs -- Aztec human sacrifice -- Inca empire -- Growing up in Inca society -- Chapter 5 -- Exploits of the Chinese dragon fleet -- Portuguese explorations in Africa -- African kingdoms in the 1400s -- Culture clash in black and white -- Da gama navigates to India -- Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the ocean sea -- Columbus describes the new world.…”

Imperial China and its southern neighbours

Table of Contents: “…Or, What Makes a God Chinese? -- Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of Chinas Southern Borderlands -- Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam -- Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island -- Southeast Asian Primary Products and Their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries -- New Evidence on the History of Sino-Arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate -- The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China -- Transformation of the Yunnanese Community along the Sino-Burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century -- Realms within Realms of Radiance, Or, Can Heaven Have Two Sons? …”