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Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future
of America Power
By Robert Kaplan
Jared Crocker
History 5
Francis Fukuyama states in his book, The End of
History, that it is “a thesis about modernization. It is
important to remember that the two largest
countries in the world, China and India, which
together contain more than forty percent of the
globe’s population, are rapidly integrating into the
global economy and modernizing at breakneck
speed.”
Vasco De Gama
Marco Polo
Vasco da Gama, (c.
1460 or 1469 – 24
December 1524) was a
Portuguese explorer,
one of the most
successful in the Age
of Discovery and the
commander of the
first ships to sail
directly from Europe
to India.
Marco Polo c. 1254 –
January 8, 1324) was
a merchant from the
Venetian Republic
whose travels are
recorded in Il
Milione, a book which
did much to introduce
Europeans to Central
Asia and China.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah December 25, 1876 – September 11, 1948) was a 20th century lawyer, politician, statesman and the founder of Pakistan.
It appears that Jinnah felt the state of Pakistan should stand upon Islamic tradition in culture, civilization and national identity rather than on the principles of Islam as a theocratic state.
Gujarat is a state in western India. It has an area of 75,686 sq mi and a population in excess of 50 million.
Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language evolved from Sanskrit.
Gujarat is a stronghold for the Jain community. Jainism preaches non-violence to all living creatures and vegetarianism.
Somnath Hindu temple in Gujarat