From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

From these ports to major populations centres and markets in Europe or Asia is several thousands of kilometers.

From the Black Sea, trade could continue to Asia along the Silk Road, another ancient trade route.

From the 1960s until 1975, the population of Cambodia increased by about 2. 2 % yearly, the lowest increase in Southeast Asia.

From 1958 to 1967 he worked for the CIA, under deep cover in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

From the Middle East mail was quickly adopted in Central Asia by the Sogdians and by India in the South.

From the 19th century, up to the end of the 20th century, most of Central Asia has been part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, both being Slavic majority countries.

From the 13th to 15th centuries cannon armed Chinese ships also traveled throughout Southeast Asia.

From Ephesus the gospel spread abroad " almost throughout all Asia.

From the moment the Crusaders entered Asia Minor, the Crusade went badly.

From very early times, the Mesopotamian lunisolar calendar was in wide use by the countries of the western Asia region.

From Molossia, Themistocles apparently fled to Pydna, from where he took a ship for Asia Minor.

From its 2007 acquisition of 100 percent ownership of H3C Technologies Co., Limited ( H3C ) — initially a joint venture with China-based Huawei Technologies — 3Com achieved a leading market presence in China, and a significant networking market share in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

From the 16th century, humans migrated from Europe, Africa and Asia to, what was to them, the New World, beginning the ever-accelerating process of globalization.

From the 1950s the ICFTU actively recruited new members from the developing regions of first Asia and subsequently Africa.

From India the domesticated fowl made its way to the Persianized kingdom of Lydia in western Asia Minor, and domestic fowl were imported to Greece by the fifth century BC.

From the Middle East, India, Persia, and Central Asia the Tang were able to acquire new ideas in fashion, new types of ceramics, and improved silver-smithing.

From 1595 to 1663 Dutch-Portuguese War led to invasions of many countries in Asia and commercial interests in Japan, Africa and South America.

From the early 20th century, gasoline or diesel-powered threshing machines, designed especially to thresh rice, the most important crop in Asia, have been developed along different lines to the modern combine.

From the 13th century, Wokou based in Japan made their debut in East Asia, initiating invasions that would persist for 300 years.

From the 8th to the 2nd centuries BC, archaeology records a split into two distinct settlement areas: the older in the Sayan-Altai area in Central Asia, and the younger in the North Pontic area in Eastern Europe.

From the end of the Roman Empire to the eighteenth century auctions lost favor in Europe, while they had never been widespread in Asia.

From there it spread throughout Southeast Asia and eventually Africa.

From there ships usually make their way to Hawaii, the islands of the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, then northward to Hong Kong, South East Asia, and India.

From about 860, the Tang Dynasty declined due to a series of rebellions within China itself and in the former subject Kingdom of Nanzhao to the south.

From the late 17th century onwards a whole body of literature known as the Han Kitab developed amongst the Hui Muslims of China who infused Islamic thought with Confucianism.

From the beginning of Communist rule in 1949, until the 1980s, when China was in the early years of economic reform, the focus was largely on peasant life, as interpreted via the officially sanctioned Marxist theory of class struggle.

' Let's Dance ', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted ' youth ', and ' China Girl ', with its bare-bummed ( and later partially censored ) beach lovemaking scene ( a homage to the film From Here to Eternity ), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV.

From a 4th century BC, Zhou era tomb at Mashan, Hubei province, China.

From the early 1930s the Japanese had been at war against both the Chinese Nationalists and the Russians in China, and used the experience to improve both training and aircraft, replacing biplanes with modern cantilever monoplanes and creating a cadre of exceptional pilots for use in the Pacific War.

** From China: $ 196. 9 billion, + 22. 4 % ( 2010 ), 45. 4 % share

From 600 AD until 1500 AD, China was the world's most technologically advanced society.

From 1931 to 1934, Mao helped establish the Soviet Republic of China and was elected Chairman of this small republic in the mountainous areas in Jiangxi.

From 1943 – 1945, the OSS played a major role in training Kuomintang troops in China and Burma, and recruited Kachin, and other indigenous irregular forces for sabotage as well as guides for Allied forces in Burma fighting the Japanese Army.

From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland ( both via Kaliningrad Oblast ), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea.

From 1996 to 2005, Senegal maintained relations with the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) instead of the People's Republic of China.

From his studies in China, he lists Luo Changpei and Wang Li as two scholars from whom he gained " new and exciting insights into language ".

From Wang Li he learnt " many things, including research methods in dialectology, the semantic basis of grammar, and the history of linguistics in China ".

From the beginning of Greek civilization until the fall of the Roman empire in the 5th century, a financially lucrative trade brought valuable spice to Europe from the far east, including India and China.

From the beginning to the end of Republican China, political power was generally exercised through both legal and non-legal means.

From its source in the Tibetan plateau, it flows through the Tibetan and Yunnan regions of China, forms the boundary between Laos and Myanmar as well as between Laos and Thailand.

From his fourth voyage, he brought envoys from thirty states who traveled to China and paid their respects at the Ming court.

< imagemap > File: 1st millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: Depiction of Jesus, the central figure in Christianity ; The Colosseum, a landmark of the once mighty Roman Empire ; Gunpowder is invented during the latter part of the millennium, in China ; Chess, a new board game, takes on popularity across the globe ; The Roman Empire falls, and then reappears ushering in the Early Middle Ages ; The skeletal remains of a young woman, known as the " ring lady ", killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ; Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire, which takes most of western Europe.

From Burma around 1500 BC, the Mon and ancestors of the Khmer people started to move in into the mainland while the Tai people later came from southern China to reside there in the first millennium AD.

From the 5th century, the capital, Palembang, became a major seaport and functioned as an entrepot on the Spice Route between India and China.

From the New England seaports of Boston, Salem, Providence, and New London, among others, the Yankees built an international trade, stretching to China by 1800.