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The San Joaquin Valley, California acquired its name in an interesting manner. Spanish history has documented this incident and attributed its name to a Spanish Army Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga who accidentally ventured to this unknown land while looking for new land for potential Spanish missions. During this journey, he came across a small creek, which he named 'Saint Joachim', referring to Saint Joachim, who was the father of Mary, the Virgin mother of Jesus Christ. In Spanish, Saint Joachim became 'San Joaquin' and hence, the river near the creek came to be known as the 'San Joaquin River'. Soon enough, the entire central valley came to be known as the 'San Joaquin Valley'. (How the Valle Got Its Name, 2000)
The Chinese immigrants who chose the United States as a place to live did so for more or less the same reasons as had the Europe immigrants. China was undergoing rough times in those days (about the middle of the 19th century). Famine and poverty-struck people needed employment and a decent living. America seemed to be a land of opportunities where they could work and send money back home to their impoverished families. This was mainly due to the California Gold rush. (Angel Island)
The San Joaquin Valley in particular was rich in gold depositories. "The Mojave gold deposit in Kern County was one of the only major gold depositories in the San Joaquin Valley.... All of the mines in the Mojave-Rosamond area had more than $5,000 of gold each; some having more than $1,000,000 of gold." All this led to a great number of treasure seekers, of which quite a few were Chinese. Due to the bad conditions back home, they decided to stay in the San Joaquin Valley and farm, rather than return. "The United States was known as "Gum San" or Gold Mountain." (A History of the Chinese-Americans in California)
When the Chinese became a permanent entity in the United States, they were welcomed with open arms. However, this did not...
Ancient Chinese Contributions (1) Identify eight to ten of these useful inventions or contributions. Cultivation of millet: millet was discovered in Northern China, with valid evidence from places like Jiahu, Peiligang, and Cishan. In Cishan, archeological remains were found which included storage pits of about 300 in number, other 80 that contained millet remains, and the storage capacity for millet gave an estimation of about 100,000 grains. In 4000 BC, the areas
Chinese Inventions The ancient Chinese were an innovative people who were able to independently develop the ideas for many of the things we take for granted today. Even though these ideas originated in the East they have proven valuable throughout the world, disseminated by such explorers as Marco Polo and others who realized the importance of the things they had seen. Francis Bacon viewed many of these Chinese inventions as crucial
("El Norte") At the same time, there were also tremendous amounts of poverty and civil wars that helped to fuel more immigration. This created a desire among many individuals, to do anything to escape these harsh conditions. Once this occurred, it meant that the total amounts of illegal immigration began to increase exponentially. These different elements are important, because they are showing how war, economics and demand from American businesses
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Chinese Art By the fifth millennium BCE, China had developed the basic elements that were to identify it as a civilization, such as social structure, agricultural skills and the domestication of animals (Schmidt pp). It was also developing concepts related to the order of the natural environment, to life, death, and life after death (Schmidt pp). China's cultural identity, as it is known today, can be traced to the endeavors of
Because of rhetoric that was rampant through the region, the result was "a skewed perception among some Chinese intellectuals that Indian must have been a race of violent and uncouth barbarians" (Mather, 1992). The once positive relationship between the two regions was tarnished, as evident by the "Discourse on Triple Destruction" which illuminates the barbarian traits that the Indian people have (Mather, 1992). This laid, along with the foundational
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