・According to the Fukuyama theory (the world where the era of ideological confrontation between liberalism and socialism is over will never be unified and a new clash of civilizations will begin) Japan should defend the Japan-US alliance as a Western liberal country and confront China and Russia, but according to the Huntington theory, Japan is one of the nine major civilizations in the world, and it has unique values that are different from Chinese civilization and Western civilization (p6)
・Shinto is not a religion; it is a major divide that shifts from faith to institutionalized religion while doctrines and sutras have been created, and whether or not a church or group organization appeared (p22) Following religion and language, the elements that bring about a second civilization are technology and institutions (p23)
・Looking at the history of China, different ethnic groups (North Di; Mongolia, Nanban; Yangtze River, Dongyi; Japan, North Korea/Shandong Province, Xirong; Silk Road) invaded China, and those who invaded also call it Chinese civilization (p28) The influence of the Yellow River civilization extended to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but it did not extend to the upper Sichuan region, and the Yangtze River Civilization was maintained in this region (p32)
・The emperor of Japan is equal to the Chinese emperor, so he can be called “His Majesty the Emperor,” the king of Korea was called by the lower honorific title of “His Highness,” the heir was not a “prince,” but “heiji” and “hurray” are compliments to the emperor, and the king of Korea is “one thousand years old” (p41)
・The amount of bombs dropped by America on Vietnam in the Vietnam War was equivalent to 2.8 times the amount of bombs dropped by America on Japan and Germany in World War II, yet Vietnam did not give in, continued guerrilla warfare, and won at the end, and Vietnam had a spirit of not losing to either France or America (p50)
・Although there were originally Chinese characters as written language in China, there was no Chinese as spoken language, and communication was difficult because the differences in dialects were so severe, and due to the modernization of Japan, today's Chinese was established as a common spoken language like modern Japanese (p60)
・The Japanese stopped the culture of head hunting among the indigenous people in Taiwan, and the reason that custom continued for a long time was that different tribes couldn't understand each other's language, so the Japanese tried to teach Japanese as their common language (p66)
・The boundary between Chinese civilization and Indian civilization is that Vietnam, which first forms the line of Yunnan Province from the Tibetan Plateau, heads south from China's Yunnan Province, and is located east of these two mountain ranges, and is bordered by the Chuangnong Mountains and Annan Mountains on the border between Vietnam and Laos, basically becomes the Chinese civilized zone, and Laos located in the west becomes the Indian civilized zone (p78) Vietnam repelled all invasions, so the northern part of Vietnam is strongly influenced by the Chinese civilization, and the southern part is strongly influenced by India It became the Southeast Asian region (p86)
・Singapore and Malaysia formed the Federation of Malaysia, but overseas Chinese occupied 80 to 90 percent of Singapore's population, Malaysia made Singapore independent in 1965 to separate overseas Chinese, and “bridge” means “temporary residence” (p102)
・Prime Minister Modi of the Indian People's Party, which advocates Hindu restorationism, also changed the name of the country from “Indo” to “Bharat (= Bharat)” (p112) people who were originally in India were lower in caste, and the Aryans who invaded India in 1500 BC created a caste system themselves as people chosen by God, and the religion they created was Brahmin. It is Hinduism (p116)
・Successive Qing emperors took great care of the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibet; they occupied Tibet militarily, but when the Qing emperor met the Dalai Lama, they faced each other on an equal footing; Mao Zedong was the first time China occupied Tibet (p134)
・When looking at Egypt from Europe, when considering the shortest distance for Indian trade, it is good to hold back Egypt, so Egypt became part of the Roman Empire, and also had the Church of Alexandria, one of the five major churches (Gohonzan), which accepted Christianity as it was (p148), and abandoned Christianity and converted to Islam, so I wanted to strengthen ties with Islamic merchants rather than European merchants (p149)
・Since the distribution of white people began from the Caucasus (Ukraine to southern Russia) where Noah's Ark flowed in, the white race is called the Caucasus, Noah's ark reached Mount Ararat, Noah's son had three “Shem Ham Yabete” people, Shem and Ham headed south, Shem is the founder of Middle Eastern Arabs and Jews, and Ham is the founder of the Egyptians and Berbers in North Africa (p153)
・The Persian Empire has been swallowed up by the Islamic Empire created by the Arabs, there is a feeling that Iranians hurt their pride, and they feel inwardly uncomfortable being in the same Islamic country as the Arabs, so Iranians chose the Shia faction, which is a minority within Islam, and it is also an expression of intention that they will not forget the glory of Sassanid Persia, which was destroyed by the Arabs (p161)
・In Russia, there is only one wife in Christianity, but drinking alcohol is permitted, and they drink wine at church and ceremonies, so Vladimir I chose Christianity, defined the border between Kiev and Russia as Greek Orthodoxy, and also married the daughter of the Byzantine emperor, and Russia became a member of Europe (p176)
・Western civilization can be divided into two, 1) Latin civilization, 2) Germanic civilization, and Eastern European civilization (= Slavic civilization) are clearly divided into ethnicity, religion, and language; in religion, Latin civilization is Catholic, Germanic civilization is Protestant, and Slavic civilization is generally Orthodox; some Catholics are included (p188)
・Orthodoxy on the Eastern side is a very national unit; even if the Eastern Roman emperor also has papal authority, it does not bind the entire Eastern Orthodox Church, there is no organization that binds Eastern Orthodoxy, the Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, etc. (p213) In Catholicism, God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Spirit are integrated, and I think that Orthodoxy is one, but each has a role (pg15)
・Ivan IV of the Grand Duchy of Moscow graciously welcomed Sign Bulat, a family directly related to Genghis Khan, to Moscow, placed him in the position of Grand Duke of All Russia (Russia), acted like a vassal, took over the position of Grand Duke from his autograph one year later, and showed the world that the Grand Duke of Moscow was the king of the Russians and at the same time the successor of Genghis Khan. Meanwhile, the Byzantine Empire also tried to accept the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire in the 15th century With the princess as his wife, Peter I, who has inherited the title of emperor (= tsar) as the successor to the Byzantine Empire (P219), carried out church reforms in 1721, abolished the Moscow Patriarchate, and the Russian emperor became the supreme priest (religious monarch) of Russian Orthodoxy (p221)
・In medieval Ukraine, three forces collided, 1) the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which is an Eastern European civilized zone, 2) the Yakevo dynasty (Poland merged with the Lithuanian Grand Advertisement, p253), and 3) there was a clash of Cossack groups that are Asians, Russia should become the same nation since they are the same people, and Ukraine has walked through a completely different history with different languages (p238)
・The Soviet Union, which was born after the Russian Revolution, was built as a federal state where four republics such as Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus merged on an equal footing, but in reality, orders from the Soviet Communist Party in Moscow became absolute, and Ukrainians who resisted were massacred by Stalin (p247)
・Of the 4 Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark = Normans, Finland = Mongoloids), Finns were indigenous people of Siberia, but the ancestors of the Estonians who moved and arrived in Finland were also Asian ethnic groups that were in Siberia, and the ones that lagged behind were the Magyars who shaped Hungary (p258)
・In 1996, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formed by the five countries of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and promised not to intervene in the Uighur separatist movement in exchange for economic support from China (p277)
・At the beginning of the 16th century, the Aztec Kingdom and Inca England each had a population of 10 million, and their total population of 2 million declined rapidly and was cut in half. A large number of Spaniards (500,000 each) crossed over, the local population was 20 times that of Spaniards, both Aztecs and Incas, one Spanish man made at least 20 Indian women his concubine, and mixed races were born in this way, which is the same ratio as when the northern peoples of the Mongolian Plateau occupied China (p287), many black slaves were brought from Africa to the West Indies, Bahamas, Haiti, Dominica, Around 90% of Jamaica are black or mixed black (p291)
・Since Spain has a shortage of labor, black African people will be used, and Portugal, which had colonies in Africa, supplied black slaves to the Spanish New Continent (p293)
・At the British Commonwealth summit meeting held in Samoa in 2024/10, calls were raised for compensation in pursuit of England's responsibility for past slave trade, but England has never apologized or compensated for the colonial system or slave trade in the past (p294)
・Since the upper class in England followed the Church of England, in addition to economic reasons that suppressed Puritans who advocated egalitarianism, emigration to the New Continent escaped such religious oppression and was a political refugee to ensure freedom of Puritan religion (p316)
・A large number of Jews evicted from Spain were protected in the Netherlands, and Amsterdam in the 17th century, which supports their economic development, became the center of world trade and finance thanks to Jewish money, Dutch navigation was supported (p319)
・The Netherlands lost its North American colonies in the Anglo-Dutch War, but instead of admitting England's annexation of New Netherland as an exchange condition, they placed importance on tropical Suriname, which can make reliable profits from sugar plantations over cold North America, where they obtained British Suriname on the South American continent (p320)
・In Japan, until the Edo period, Shinto and Buddhism were syncretized, and Shinto was tolerant and fused with Buddhism, but in the Meiji period, national Shinto became the national religion, and Buddhism was excluded (= abolition of Buddhism = separation of Shinto and Buddhism) (p341)
