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| In Confucianism, human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavour especially including self-cultivation and self-creation. A main idea of Confucianism is the cultivation of virtue and the development of moral perfection. Confucianism holds that one should give up one's life, if necessary, either passively or actively, for the sake of upholding the cardinal moral values of ren and yi |
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-Military dictators or general.
-Shoguns office or administrate is called a Shogunate.
-Shogun's officials collectively were called bakufu.
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-Was King of the Franksfrom 768 and Emperor of the romans (Imperator Romanorum) from 800 to his death in 814.
-He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe
-conquered Italy and was crownedImperator Augustus by Pope Leo III
-Became rival of Byzantine Empire |
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| People picking up Chinese culture. |
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| Blend of Arabic and Bantu |
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· An ancient Nubian kingdom that in some periods dominated, and in others was dominated by pharaonic Egypt
· Kushite kingdom reached its peak between Middle and New Kingdoms of Egypt
· Got independence from Egypt in 900 BCE |
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· Napatan was sacked by Egyptian armies so they moved to Meroe.
· Iron industry began to flourish
· Defeated by the NUba people in 4th century BCE
· Aksum became dominating regional power |
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· Newly Christianized state of Aksum
· Language is a mix between African Kushitic and Semitic
· Red Sea gave Aksum a strategic way to use the Indian Ocean trade routes
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