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  2. Tribute - Wikipedia

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    There were several tribute states to the Chinese-established empires throughout ancient history, including neighboring countries such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Borneo, Indonesia and Central Asia. [4] This tributary system and relationship are well known as Jimi (羁縻 ) or Cefeng (冊封 ), or Chaogong (朝貢 ).

  3. Tributary system of China - Wikipedia

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    Actors within the "tribute system" were virtually autonomous and carried out their own agendas despite sending tribute; as was the case with Japan, Korea, Ryukyu, and Vietnam. [16] Chinese influence on tributary states was almost always non-interventionist in nature and tributary states "normally could expect no military assistance from Chinese ...

  4. Tributary state - Wikipedia

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    The bunga mas, a form of tribute sent to the King of Ayutthaya from its vassal states in the Malay Peninsula. A tributary state is a pre-modern state in a particular type of subordinate relationship to a more powerful state which involved the sending of a regular token of submission, or tribute, to the superior power (the suzerain). [1]

  5. List of tributary states of China - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of states that paid tribute to the Imperial dynasties of China under the tributary system. It encompassed states in Central Asia , East Asia , North Asia , South Asia , Southeast Asia , and Europe .

  6. Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    It involved the transfer of goods unique from one hemisphere to another. Europeans brought cattle, horses, and sheep to the New World, and from the New World Europeans received tobacco, potatoes, tomatoes, and maize. Other items and commodities becoming important in global trade were the tobacco, sugarcane, and cotton crops of the Americas ...

  7. Historical geography - Wikipedia

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    A 1740 map of Paris. Ortelius World Map, 1570. Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. [1] In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history, anthropology, ecology, geology, environmental studies, literary studies, and other fields.

  8. Empire - Wikipedia

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    It became the largest empire in world history, encompassing one quarter of the world's land area and one fifth of its population. [94] The impacts of this period are still prominent in the current age "including widespread use of the English language, belief in Protestant religion, economic globalization, modern precepts of law and order, and ...

  9. History of the Han dynasty - Wikipedia

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    [310] Óc Eo may have been the same Southeast Asian seaport city mentioned in the 2nd-century Geography by the Greco-Roman writer Ptolemy (as well as in the work of Marinus of Tyre), a city called Cattigara where a Greek sailor named Alexandros allegedly visited by sailing northeast of the Golden Peninsula (i.e. the Malay Peninsula) into the ...