Saturday, March 12, 2022

The story of Goguryeo as a history of war against the Sui or Tang Dynasty of Goguryeo.

 1. War with the Sui Dynasty.

- The first round of the master's war.

In 598, Yangyang led 300,000 troops and invaded the Yotaek. In fact, it is recorded that he died of the plague, but unless he is attacked by Goguryeo troops, 80% out of 100% is not thought to have died of the plague. If so, was the first war of masters attacked by Goguryeo troops? It's hard to find actual records, but the logic of the military law, the war.I think it is hidden in the Spring and Autumn Writing Act that 10% and 80% die of plague.


 


- The 2nd Master's War

In fact, the war, which can be thought of as the prelude to the war between Goguryeo and the Su Dynasty, was when the Su Dynasty led the great army and invaded Goguryeo again. This war, which took place in 612, was one of the wars that caused too much effort to build justifications, and the reason the foster system invaded Goguryeo was because Goguryeo envoys were dispatched to their allies, the "Dolgwol." At the same time, he threatens to destroy your country if you don't join the Goguryeo envoy immediately, and the Goguryeo envoy will return. So, the unrelieved foster system finally began the war in 612, led a total of 1,133,800 troops in the 12th Army of the left army, the 6th Army of the 12th Army of the right army, to Beijing and Liaodong, and it is estimated that the supply unit is close to 3 million.


 

 The reason for the defeat of the Sui Dynasty in the Second Master's War.


1. The reason for the defeat of the Sui Dynasty was the problem with the supply line, which was too long. Before departing from Beijing, King Yeongyang attacked Joyang with 10,000 soldiers, and as he attacked Joyang, the Su Dynasty will deploy the supply base to the rear. This is the first cause of defeat.


2. It can be cited as a strategic attachment, and long-distance marches must have a long supply line. Goguryeo actually cut off the supply line of the Su Dynasty troops pushed back to the red camp and cut off the rear supply. For example, when Jojo and Element fought in Kwando Daejeon, the 70,000-member Jojo was able to beat Oso, a military reserve area, because if they cut off the transfer, the troops cannot move and do their best. If it weren't for this red envelope, I wasn't sure how the cilantro war would have changed.


3. In particular, all the right to attack was not for the general general, but for the foster system. All attack commands were reported by the foster agent and then ordered to attack, giving Goguryeo time to reorganize the battle line. This is a clear record in the feed. A soldier from the Su Dynasty, who was attacking Yodongseong Fortress from the front, came and reported it to Yangje again and told the general, and the general attacked Yangje as he told him. This is also one of the reasons for the defeat of several countries because it is the lowest in terms of war and the command system is quite incomplete.


4. I think Goguryeo's defense line had the greatest defense effect. There were a total of four lines of defense, and the first line was the line of defense that stretched around the back of the house. Passing through this swamp, it is intercepted and attacked by countless castles of Goguryeo, and it is engaged in a guerrilla war to attract the Su Dynasty troops to Yodongseong Fortress. When we arrived at the locality near Yodong, the second line of defense, we carried out a tactic to finish by making us tired of Suseongjeon. In particular, he used "Cheongya tactics" to prevent local procurement, and he was exhausted, and he was struggling with the inducement of Goguryeo's defense line.


* What's the night and night tactic?

- This tactic is a consumption tactic, in which when a war breaks out, people living outside the castle burn houses and fields, collect grains and livestock into the castle, and conduct a sit-in war, which is one of the pillars of Goguryeo's collapse in 668. This is because Goguryeo always adhered to Cheongya tactics.


- Goguryeo naval forces vs Sunara naval forces.

One of the controversial reasons for this is whether Goguryeo operated the naval forces at the time, but I personally think it was operated. That's because the base of the naval forces was the end of the Great Wall of China. At that time, the Su Dynasty was not just a million troops in the army, but also a huge army in the naval forces. It is estimated that 100,000 naval forces started from Raeju, Shandong Peninsula, and led by Naehoa, but only 40,000 troops actually fought. Then, how did Goguryeo win in the naval forces?


- Ko Geon-mu (King Yeongryu), who predicted fog in the Battle of Jangsagot, lured 11 ships, fought the first leg of the battle at Jangsigot, and intentionally dragged them to Pyongyang to exterminate 40,000 naval forces. You can assume that.


- Byeoldong University 300,000 vs Eulji Mundeok.

There are many people who know that Eulji Mundeok destroyed Byeoldongdae in Salsu by hand, but there were no handcrafted measures in the records of the time. The handicraft was raised by Danjae Shin Chae-ho, who wrote the Joseon Commercial High School, studying how he won behind the great victory and claiming that he would have won like this with speculation. Suyangje is in a hurry and reorganizes 300,000 troops to advance the army into Goguryeo's Pyongyang Castle, and sends Umunsul and Umungmun to Jangsu. There are several reasons why you have a great power attachment here.


1. Navy general Nae Ho-ah was smashed by Ko Gun-moo while pushing ahead without consent from the army because he coveted his own major.


2. As the supply became unstable, the Sui army, which judged that there was something to eat if they went to Pyongyang, became anxious when there was nothing to eat even if they advanced to Pyongyang, and to make matters worse, they were already exhausted when Goguryeo troops engaged in guerrilla battles.


At this time, General Eulji Mundeok falsely surrendered to the Su Dynasty camp, looked at the camp, and left "Yeosu Jangwoo Jungmunsi," which is said as follows.


" "The mysterious scheme came to heaven."

" "Mysterious tactics are that I've mastered geography."

" "We're already fighting. The ball was high."

" "How can you stop thinking it's enough?"


Ordinary people think that Woo Joong-mun and Woo Mun-sul retreated immediately after hearing this poem, but it's never the time. He advanced to catch Eulji Mundeok, but when he couldn't catch it, he retreated with a justification for this poem.

However, the Su Dynasty's army, which was exhausted from retreat, had already been scattered as it was retreating, and was struggling with "dust."


* What is dust?

- As an ancient military advance, it maintains a square line, and moves in all directions, wary of units transporting supplies and food in the middle.


At this time, when about half of the time came to the slaughter, Goguryeo troops were dispatched to destroy the camp and attack, killing General Shin Se-woong and Maccheoljang to win a great victory.

The 2,700 people who barely passed away and Umunsul were severely reprimanded by the foster agent and tied to an iron chain and retreated as if running away.

The secret of the great victory of the Battle of Myeongnyang.

 The Myeongnyang Battle is one of the mysterious battles that won by fighting 13 ships vs 333 ships. How did they win this battle? Did you win simply by the ocean current like the "Myeongnyang" tornado sea?


It was a battle that won Uldolmok (Myeongnyang) on September 16, 1597, and the number of enemy ships destroyed was 32, and the rest of the battle function was 91 and retreated without even coming into Uldolmok.


September 6, 1597. - Battle of Byeokpajin.


Many people don't know this Byeokpajin Battle, and I think this Byeokpajin Battle is the core battle that brought the greatest victory of the Battle of Myeongnyang. The reason is that Michifusa Guruchima was wary of Admiral Yi Sun-shin. Admiral Yi Sunsin's battleships will be dispatched on September 6th. In a small naval battle, Michifusa Gurushima, who is manned to Uldolmok, eventually falls over. The reason is that Admiral Yi Sun-shin knew that there were 13 fleets, so he went to Uldolmok on September 16, 1597.


September 16, 1597. Battle of Myeongnyang.


What's the victory of the Battle of Myeongnyang?


1. The difference between ships.


- The difference in shipbuilding technology changed the naval force during the Imjin War and the Jeongyu War. Panokseon has excellent durability because it builds a wooden nail on the flat line and dries the boat in the form of S. In addition, it was easy to fight because the first floor was filled with classified soldiers and the second floor was one of the ships with a kind of division of labor system, but in the case of Japanese Antaekseon, it was less durable because it was double-handed and hit diagonally with wooden nails. So, even when partisan operations were used, Ahn Taek-seon was not in the watermelon that could easily be smashed.


2. The difference in weapons.


- The Joseon Navy had trained the Panokseon to carry guns to enable the shooting of guns. In particular, Panokseon was able to overcome the ship even if it was loaded a lot because it was a ship that was steady despite the recoil of Hampo, while the Japanese Antaekseon was very durable, so it was only able to load three gates of Hampo.

This part played the biggest role, and the shooting distance of the artillery was also quite advantageous for the Joseon Navy. In order to break down Japan's tactic of "Baek Byeong-jeon," I think one weapon that stands out for Admiral Yi Sun-shin's brilliant tactical victory is "Hwapo."


3. Differences in strategy and tactics.


- As mentioned above, no matter how good weapons and ships are, they cannot win without strategies and tactics. In particular, land and naval battles vary greatly, so if you fail strategically, you will lose like Won Gyun, and in fact, it is right to see Chilcheonyang Naval Battle as a strategic defeat, not Won Gyun's incompetent defeat. I'll explain the reason again later. Admiral Yi Sun-shin knew Japanese tactics so well and also responded quickly to the situation. First of all, as mentioned above, if the weapon's non-shooting distance, that is, the Japanese Navy's rifle, comes within a 250m radius, for example, it can fly up to 1km, so even if the Japanese army enters first, it will be smashed.

In addition, the panokseon is a flat line, so it can rotate. When I finished shooting from Chinese characters, I turned to other Chinese characters and fired, and I always maintained a certain distance. 

They also used the flow of birds well. As far as I know, Michifusa Gurushima's hometown is faster than Uldolmok, but I think the reason for the defeat to Yi Sun-shin was because of the "iron clad operation," which was mentioned in the Yasaseo and was only circulating as a legend.


4. Is the metal clad operation real? Is it fiction?


- My personal opinion is that there was definitely an iron clad operation. The reason is that the ship of Antaekseon is a ship in the form of a sharp line (V). " If you turn the word "makgae" from both sides, the steel wire submerged in seawater slowly rises and hangs the lower part of the Antaekseon. At this time, Admiral Yi Sun-shin buys time by firing guns with all his might and waits until the direction of the current changes.


Morning time.


Joseon Navy. Japanese Navy.


Until the morning, the current flowed like this. If we fought only with the ocean currents, we wouldn't be able to guarantee victory. After using the iron clad operation, around 1 p.m. in modern time,


Afternoon time.


Joseon Navy. Japanese Navy.


The current changes like this. In fact, this current existed in the battle at the time, and it is also recorded in the Annals of Nanjung Diary and King Seonjo. But there's nothing about the ironclad operation. Then, which book is the one mentioned about the iron clad operation?


Lee Chungmugongseo, Hyeonmugongsilgi, and Taekji.


This Chungmugongjeonseo is a book written by Admiral Yi Sun-sin's family to commemorate the general's achievements after the death of Admiral Yi Sun-sin, and the operation of the iron clad is mentioned here.


In addition, Hyeonmugongsilgi was a person who participated in the Battle of Myeongnyang at the time of Kim Eok-chu in Jeolla-do, and the book written by Kim Eok-chu's descendants containing a character exhibition about him was Hyeonmugongsilgi. Here, it is also recorded that he broke the enemy with iron and steel.


Taekriji is a geography book from the Joseon Dynasty. However, it is claimed that the current status of Uldolmok and the iron cladding operation were also used in General Yi Sun-sin's Battle of Myeongnyang at the time.


But why did such a testament fall out of the movie Myeongnyang?


During the Joseon Dynasty, there was a lack of iron manufacturing technology, and those three books were written in later generations, so they were denied, but I don't see them that way. At that time, the tide situation was like that, and if we fought only with the ocean currents at a time when the power was inferior, I think the Joseon Navy would have been wiped out.

The situation after the birth of Islam.

 These days, it is feared that terrorism will become a representative image of Islam.

IS is a variant virus derived from Islamic faction conflict.

Let's talk about them in detail later.


Before modern times, the Islamic world boasted an overwhelmingly superior culture than the Christian world centered on Western Europe. This dominance of Islamic culture lasted for about a thousand years from the time Greece and Rome lost their civilization superiority to the time when the modern civilization of the West emerged. Since Islam appeared in world history in the 7th century, it has grown rapidly to build a vast Islamic empire covering not only the Middle East and Africa but also the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century (711). Both Greek and Roman culture and Alexandria's accumulated wisdom were absorbed into Islam. 

When it comes to science, we often think of people like Galileo and Newton in the modern West first, but in fact, modern science in Europe began with the influx of Islamic culture. During that period, it was the Arabic numeral that quickly spread to Western Europe along with Islamic books and helped modernization. Roman numerals were widely used until Islamic Arabic numerals spread to Europe. However, Roman numerals have decisive flaws. It is the fact that there is no zero. In that sense, it is no exaggeration to say that the development of modern science in Europe was built on Islamic civilization and Arabic numerals. Often, the three major inventions of the Renaissance are plate printing, compass, and gunpowder, which are originally Chinese inventions. Since it has been passed down to Europe through the Islamic world, it is correct to say that it is an improvement that is not a European invention. The same is true of printing boards. Long before Johann Kutenberg invented it, plate printing was prevalent and common in the East, especially in Korea. Looking at world history in this way, it can be clearly seen that advanced cultures and civilizations started from the East, not Europe, and spread to Europe through Islam.


Currently, the number of Muslims is more than 1.3 billion.

Christianity, which is 1.7 billion, is the second largest number. Looking at the current distribution of religion on the map, Christianity is mainly distributed in Western Europe and North and North America. If you look at Africa here, like South America, it has been under European control for a long time, but now most of it is Islam. It can be seen that it is leading to the spread of Muslims due to a kind of resistance from the Western powers.


Arabian Night, featuring Sinbat, is the story of an Islamic merchant. It is said that Islamic merchants in the 8th century traded around Asia, Africa, and Europe. At this time, it is said that the bases built by Islamic merchants around the world for trade became the origin of Asian Islam. After the 13th century, Southeast Asia is said to have developed into an Islamic country as it is now, with the number of people converting to Muslims rapidly increasing, mainly merchants. This number alone has more than 500 million people.


Jerusalem is not just a territory, but a sacred place for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is a place where three monotheistic brothers compete in person. And this brotherhood fight is igniting a bigger fight that drives the world into chaos.


The United States is a religious country more than we think.

When the U.S. president takes office, it is customary to place your hand on the Bible and take an oath. Then, what if a non-Christian takes office? It is a very interesting problem, but it is said that there is no such precedent yet. Why does the political leader of the state put his hand on the Bible? It exactly contradicts the freedom of religion guaranteed by the laws set by the country. However, Americans have no doubt about this. In that sense, it is said that the United States is a firmly different Protestant country. Looking at world history from the perspective of religion, it can be seen that religious confrontation leads to war, which becomes an obstacle and leads to a vicious cycle in which disputes cannot be resolved. 

How world history will proceed in the future cannot be thought of separately from religious issues.

A brief modern history of Korea, China, Japan.

 On July 8, 1853, a fleet led by the commander of the U.S. East India Fleet appeared off the coast of Japan, and in January of the following year, it returned to seven fleets and forced them to open the port. The shogunate that surrendered to this comes to an agreement as requested by the United States, which is the first treaty Japan has signed with the West, the Treaty of the United States of America.

☞ Treaty of the United States: Five ports including Hakodate, recognition of extraterritorial rights in the United States, disapproval of customs rights in Japan, and treatment of the most beneficial countries in the United States.

 

After opening the port, Japan's Meiji Restoration was successful and economic and military rapid development continued.

 

Twenty years after the opening of the port, Japan imposed a compulsory treaty on Joseon against the United States. In the same way that the United States brought a black ship to Japan and demanded the opening of the port, in short, it used the evil habit of learning from the United States as it was in Joseon.

 

Even though there was a lot of friction and damage with the Joseon military under the pretext of opening the port, the Treaty of Ganghwa Island (Byeongja Protection Treaty) was signed under the pretext of this incident and forced Joseon to open.

 

As a result, the power of conservative forces, which have been consistent with the closing policy, weakens, and the enlightenment group gradually gains strength. As a result, Byeolgi-gun, a new Japanese-style army, was created, and gradually the enlightenment group gained strength, and conflicts between forces began to arise.

The treatment of Byeolgi-gun was much better than that of the old army, and he wore new weapons and uniforms, and was being trained by Japanese instructors.On the other hand, when the old army does not even receive a proper Noksong Peak, an incident occurs in which the old army revolts with dissatisfaction with discrimination against treatment.

It was the Imo Gunran in 1882.

 

Conservative forces centered on Daewongun, who had been declining under the leadership of this old army, supported the old army from behind, showed an all-out war between the enlightened and conservative forces, and eventually Japanese officials were killed by the rebels. In the midst of this, King Gojong, who became urgent, handed over full power to Daewongun and settled the rebellion. In this way, Daewongun seemed to take power again, but taking advantage of this time, the Min family asked for salvation from the Qing Dynasty and the incident was suppressed by the Qing Dynasty, giving the Qing Dynasty an excuse for its full-scale intervention in Joseon. Afterwards, the Qing Dynasty dispatched 3,000 soldiers to Joseon and entered a semi-dominant state. Japan also calls on the Joseon government to punish the perpetrators and concludes the Treaty of Sacrifice for the purpose of compensation in this case.

Since then, the Qing Dynasty and Japan have expanded their interference and authority over Joseon in earnest.

 

Two years later, in 1884, the Qing Dynasty withdrew half of the 3,000 soldiers stationed in Joseon after the Imjin War and put them into the war against France. At this time, the Qing Dynasty's interest in Joseon weakens due to war and chaotic domestic problems.

Taking advantage of this gap, the enlightenment group led by Kim Ok-gyun seeks a revolution to restore sovereignty that has been suppressed by the Qing Dynasty. Kim Ok-gyun and his party, who led this revolution (Gapsin Coup), studied Western studies early in Japan, studied under Japanese thinker Yukichi Fukuzawa, and are also interested in the success of the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Based on this experience in Japan, it sought to reject foreign powers and establish an independent government, but in order to promote this, it was promoted using Japan because its independent power was weak. However, the investigation ends in three days due to the non-cooperation of the Japanese Corporation and the leakage of plans, which promised cooperation. Those who dreamed of reforming Joseon with independence and independent modernization based on the Meiji Restoration came to nothing, and Kim Ok-kyun went on an exile to Japan and was eventually assassinated in Shanghai.

Since then, the struggle between Cheong and Il against Joseon has reached its peak.

 

Around this time, the government of Joseon is becoming increasingly helpless, and officials are also suffering from corruption and embezzlement, and the people are struggling day by day.

In 1894, when the Donghak Peasant Movement took place by farmers outraged by the tyranny of the detective duck, and the forces gradually gained strength and spread to the popular uprising movement, the Joseon government's Min forces again ask the Qing Dynasty for support.The Qing Dynasty's intervention in Joseon became more explicit in the wake of the suppression of the Donghak Peasant Movement, and Japan sent troops to Joseon in the name of protecting its citizens. From this point on, troops from both Sino-Japanese countries were stationed in Joseon and began to confront each other due to the struggle for interests. Japan was accurately aware of the reality of the Qing Dynasty, which had become weak around this time.

 

In 1894, when the Qing Dynasty fleet stationed in Joseon was attacked, Japan finally started the Sino-Japanese War and began to reveal its ambition in earnest. The war ended with Japan's overwhelming victory, and as a result, the Qing Dynasty was completely excluded from Joseon as the Qing Dynasty surrendered to Japan and signed the Shimonoseki Treaty, and from then on, Joseon was placed under Japanese interference.

☞The Treaty of Shimonoseki: Complete exclusion of Qing from Joseon / 200 million nyang of war compensation (Cheong's two-year budget)/Yodong Taiwan Penghu Halyang

 

At this time, Japan, which unilaterally won the Sino-Japanese War against Western powers, is evaluated again. It is recognized as a strong Asian player.

Russia is immersed in south-south policy through East Asia and begins to check Japan in partnership with Germany and France.

Feeling anxious about Russia's southward policy, Britain allied with Japan, implicitly condoning Japan's entry into Joseon and justifying its control over India with the aim of stopping Russia from moving south.During this period, the Joseon government was disillusioned with Japan due to Japan's Empress Myeongseong murder and oppression, and tried to get out of Japan's sphere of influence on the land with Russia on its back, but it was not easy.

 

Japan, which won the Sino-Japanese War, began to seriously confront Russia over the interests of Shandong and Manchuria in China. As the conflict between the two countries intensified and no compromise was found through dialogue, Japan's unilateral attack on Russia began in 1904.

The Russo-Japanese War took place, fiercely fighting in the Joseon and Manchuria areas. In the land war, both countries were on an equal footing with a large number of dead people, but the war tilted to Japan as Japan took the lead in the naval battle.The decisive battle was the Battle of Tsushima, which faced the world's strongest Russian Baltic Fleet at the time, and the Baltic Fleet from Europe wasted months more around Africa's southernmost Hope Peak when it was impossible to pass the Suez canal due to British sanctions.It was the result of a thorough battle in which Japan obtained information through Britain in advance and bought months of time.Russia calms down the battle lines and fights the East Sea again around May 1905, but Japan's victory ends the Russo-Japanese War as four fleets, including Nicolai IV, surrendered to Japan.During this period, while Japan prepared for the Russo-Japanese War, it robbed Dokdo Island for war purposes and built a watchtower and base station to monitor the Russian fleet.It is also near Dokdo Island that Japan won the East Sea Battle.Later, the Russo-Japanese War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Forthmouth with the intervention of the United States.

Since then, the United States has also recognized Japan as a powerhouse in East Asia.

☞ Treaty of Portsmouth: Transferred from Manchuria to Russia/Lusundalian even to Japan/Sakhalin Island.

 

The United States then sends an envoy to Japan to sign a secret agreement. This is the Katsurateft secret agreement, in which the U.S. controls the Philippines and Japan controls Joseon.Immediately after the following year, Japan signed a Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905 with Joseon and deprived it of its diplomatic rights.In response, King Gojong dispatched a secretariat to the Hague to inform the world of Japanese atrocities, but it went down the drain due to the struggle of the powers and Japan's interference.

In 1909, Ahn Jung-geun shot Ito.

The humiliating merger in 1910 (Gyeongsulgukchi)

 

When World War I broke out in 1914, another opportunity came for Japan.The war significantly reduces European production and increases Japan's exports, accumulating enormous wealth. European powers are engulfed in war, losing interest in Asia, and Japan is also taking advantage of this time to invade Asia in earnest. Japan, which has signed treaties with France, Britain, and Russia, declares war on Germany and participates in World War I. It intercepts Qingdao and Shandong Peninsula, which were interested regions of Germany in China.Japan does not fight any war and enjoys specialties and takes advantage of it.Japan, which took advantage of its interests and was hit by export shipping, has grown into the world's third-largest shipping country, ending World War I in 1918.

 

With the 1923 Great Kwandong Earthquake, everything turned into ashes and the emergence of socialist forces, the domestic situation in Japan is in chaos. At this time, Japan stimulates China to turn people's attention outward as a means of solving chaotic domestic problems.At that time, China was in a chaotic situation after the civil war.Jang Gye-seok's Kuomintang and Mo Taek-dong's Communist Party fought fiercely, and in Manchuria, Jang Jak-rim, who supported Japan, faced off.

 

The 1929 World Panic also hit Japan hard. With the end of World War I, Japan's exports shrink as Europe's economy improves and production picks up. Japan launched an invasion of China in Manchuria in 1931 as a means of making up for these situations at once. As a result, China falls into an extreme whirlwind by fighting civil war and war with Japan.Accordingly, China decided to end the civil war for a while and face Japan.This is a joint venture.Thus, it was expanded to the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.

It faced Japan through a joint venture, but it was not enough. The Namgyeong Massacre, in which 300,000 innocent Chinese civilians were slaughtered that winter, took place. Winning the war against China, Japan, which is proud of its victory, lifts its ambition to occupy Asia as a whole.This is the public right of Daedong-A that Japan put forward.

 

In 1939, World War II broke out in Europe due to Germany's invasion of Poland, and Germany was on a roll and occupied Paris.Accordingly, Japan quickly formed an alliance with Germany and fought against the United States and took over the Asian colonies of Britain and France one after another.Feeling threatened by this, the United States begins to sanction Japan.As Japan did not respond much, it took extreme measures called oil embargo.At this time, Japan relied on the United States for most of its oil.

On December 8, 1941, Japan, which was finally cornered, launched an all-out war with the United States with an air strike on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.


The United States, which took the lead in the Battle of Midway next year, will launch a massive counterattack with the victory of the Battle of Cadalcanal.As the U.S. Navy began to accurately decrypt the Japanese military's code, Japan continued to lose consecutive games and finally confronted it with suicide commandos, but the situation has already tilted.On July 26, 1945, the Allied Forces urged Japan to surrender through the Potsdam Declaration, but Japan decided to a mainland showdown and refused to surrender until the end, and the United States was skeptical of landing on mainland Japan as too many soldiers took Okinawa.And slowly, fearing that the war would flow in a complicated way due to Soviet intervention, nuclear attacks are carried out twice.A little boy of uranium coal will be dropped to Hiroshima on August 6, followed by a plutonium patmen to Nagasaki on August 9.Nevertheless, Japan, which had been holding back its surrender, was cornered by the Soviet Union's full-fledged intervention and reached its surrender on August 15, 1945.

According to one theory, at this time, Japan prepared nuclear weapons in the East Sea of Hamgyeong-do and left only the final experimental stage to counterattack the United States, and all of Russia's plans went south in vain and reached surrender.

At the end of the war, Russia sneaked in and only took advantage.As a result of this, Korea is later divided into the two Koreas. History is said to have no assumptions. If it had ended without Soviet intervention, wouldn't the Korean Peninsula be different from now?…Think about it.

The "colonial modernization theory," often referred to by the pro-Japanese group offspring and evil private opportunists, is nonsense and absurd to be punished.

The significance of Christianity and Islam in world history.

 The basis for understanding the Middle East and Western history in the Middle Ages is the Christian world and Islam.

Islam, which appears as a rival to East Rome after the division of East and West Rome and the fall of the Western Roman Empire, forms two major mountain ranges of Christianity, politics, religion, and culture, and history leads to a process marked by conquest, confrontation, and war of the two forces. These two major conflicts, which are deeply located in today's world situation, still have a lot of homework left.

In that sense, let's leave behind Christianity, which is familiar to us, and first find out about the birth of Islam.


Islam.

Islam or Islam is a religion that has Muhammad as a prophet and Allah as a single god. Allah means "God" and "God" in Arabic, and is one of the world's top three religions along with Buddhism and Christian faith. "Islam" means "obedience and obedience." Muslims are called Muslims for men and Muslims for women.


The scripture of Islam is Quran, which is said to be a record of Allah's words received by the prophet Muhammad from the angel Gibril. Representative sects of Islam include the Sunnis, which account for 80-90% of all Muslims, and the Shia, which Iran represents. Shiapa accounts for 10-20%. Muslims in the Balkans, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia have many Sufi Muslims. All Muslims within the Sunnis have homogeneous rituals, but there is invisible distrust between other sects.


The birth of Islam.

In the story of the founding of Islam related to Cain and Abel, Cain in the Bible killed Abel and then left for another country and continent, where Cain lived, Muhammad, a descendant of Cain, founded and spread Islam a few years later.

Mecca, a sacred place in Islam, is a city located in a barren valley about 80 km from the central Arabian Peninsula and the coast of the Red Sea, and was the main point of Daesang-ro from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean coast. There have been scattered Jews since ancient times, and minor Christians such as the Evionists, the Maryamists, and the Nestorian Church lived in Arabia to escape the oppression of the Roman Church. Mecca was the religious center of the Arabian Peninsula, centered on the Temple of Kaba, so many objects and pilgrims visited it every year. Mecca's ruling class was the Quraish from the nearby wilderness around the end of the 5th century, and Muhammad was from the Hashim family. In Hashimga, there lived a man named Abdul Mudalib, who had ten sons and the youngest was Abdullah. Abdullah married Amina, and Muhammad was born between them. Before Muhammad was born, his father died, and his mother, Amina, also died of illness on her way back from visiting Medina. Muhammad returns to Mecca holding the maid's hand and is raised by his uncle Abu Ddalip when his grandfather dies. Uncle Abu Ddalip was poor and had many family members, so Muhammad left for Syria with uncle Abu Ddalip from an early age.


At the age of 12, Muhammad follows his uncle to Syria. There, you meet a Nestorian monk. Bahira said Muhammad, who was riding the Qaraban, had a sign of a prophet.


At that time, Jews and minority Christians lived in various parts of Arabia. Sabbaths also lived in Arabia, where they gave religious inspiration to each other. It was the religious influence of Sabism that fasted in September, when it was called the sacred month. Although monotheistic ideas were passed down to the Arabian Peninsula due to the influence of Jews and minority Christians, most still lived with polytheistic faith. There were 360 idols in the temple of Kaba, who served as mediators to get closer to Allah. This name "Allah" is very important in Islam, and in Arabic, it means "God." In other words, it means "God," the absolute being of this world. Allah is the only object of worship in Islam.


Muhammad found a profitable job thinking of his poor uncle Abu Ddalip, and with the introduction of his uncle Abu Ddalip, he entered the employee of the rich widow Khadija and left for Syria for trade on her behalf. Muhammad's trade was a great success and returned to Mecca after finding specialties from the current Syrian region. Khadija was deeply impressed by Muhammad's honesty and faithfulness and proposed to Muhammad, who was 15 years younger. Muhammad, 25, Khadija, 40, married the two. Khadiza's marriage, who was rich, gave Muhammad wealth and honor, and Muhammad adopted Ali to ease his uncle's financial difficulties.


Muhammad's marriage was happy, but misfortune began to strike Muhammad. The four daughters grew up well, but their sons continued to die as infants. At that time, Arabian society preferred healthy boys because it was a time when healthy (big and strong) men left the target trade and became heroes to succeed. Because of Muhammad's wealth and honor, people had good relationships with him.


Economic wealth gave him room, and Muhammad began to fast and contemplate and seek truth. Then one day, Muhammad made his first revelation in the Hirasan Cave. Muhammad seemed to have returned home in fear and died, but his wife Khadiza calmed down Muhammad and explained the situation to Warakaven Naupal, his uncle and Evionist Christian. Waraka said Muhammad was the angel Gibril (Gabriel), and said Muhammad was God's prophet. Khadija returned home and informed Muhammad of everything his uncle had said and acknowledged his position as a prophet. And he (Muhammad) becomes the first Muslim in Islam.


After receiving the first revelation, Muhammad's adopted children, slaves, and close friends gradually converted to Muslims, and in the third year, Muhammad gathered his friends and relatives and proclaimed his belief in Allah (God). However, friends and relatives criticized and insulted him, ignoring Muhammad. Then Muhammad began to convey the idea of a single god to pilgrims coming to Mecca, and tribesmen who earned income from pilgrims guarding Mecca's Kaba temple began to persecute Muhammad.


Muhammad gained great sadness in 619 AD. Khadija, the first Muslim and his big supporter, died. Also, uncle Abu Daulip, who was his shield, dies that year. Muhammad decided to make the Muslim community stronger to counter persecution and persecution that do not decrease even in pain, pushing for marriage with his friend, Abu Bakr's daughter Aisha. At this time, Muhammad was 50 years old and Aisha was 9 years old.


The persecution got worse, and in 622 he went to Medina, about 400km north of Mecca. The believers also fled to Medina around this time and were housed in the homes of their collaborators (Ansar). This line of Medina is called Hizra ("migration") in Islam, and this understanding is the origin of the Islamic power.


Upon arriving at Medina, Muhammad bought Suhail's orchard land where his horse stopped and built the first temple and his house. And five times a day, Allah (God) bowed to Mecca, reciting that he was great. Muhammad judged that in order to establish the authority of the prophet in Medina and dream of unification of Arabian tribes, a form of Islamic organization that does not distinguish between religious and secular affairs is necessary. In other words, Muhammad pursued a society of unity.


In 628 AD, Muhammad decided to go on a pilgrimage to the Temple of Kaba in Mecca. In March of that year, it was an unwritten rule not to wage war as a sacred month in the Arab world, but the people of Mecca are concerned that Muhammad will wage war, so they demand a peace treaty of two to ten years and Muhammad responds to the demand. And two years later, in 630 AD, 10,000 Muslims headed to Mecca without weapons, eventually achieving bloodless entry into Mecca. Muhammad, who entered Mecca, shouted "Allahu Akbar (God is the greatest)," and Muslims shouted after him.

Muhammad destroyed all the idols of the Temple of Kaba and promulgated that there was no god other than Allah, the only god. At that time, all the idols in Mecca's house were destroyed.

Muhammad spent 15 days in Mecca and returned to Medina and went on an expedition to Tabuk, northwest of Arabia the following year. In 632 AD, Muhammad died of a serious fever while returning to Medina after visiting Mecca's Kaba temple.

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After that, the leader who succeeded Muhammad was elected, and the expansion of Islamic forces took place in earnest. 

The beginning of the confrontation with the Christian world was the entry of Islam into the Iberian Peninsula in 711 AD, which was mentioned in the previous episode.

The Crusades and the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire...The construction of the great empire of Osman...A spectacular and interesting history continues.



Before modern times, religion was effective in promoting ethics and order because it was barbaric and frequently violated human rights. However, in the modern and future era, the development of strong artificial intelligence and natural science is enormous, and religion will no longer be able to dominate human thinking and values.

Léconquista - The Iberian Peninsula, Spain's National Land Recovery Movement

 The Crusades actually began with the Iberian Peninsula. 

Léconquista refers to a series of processes in which Roman Catholic kingdoms in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula ousted Islamic states in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula and restored the Iberian Peninsula from 718 to 1492.


Lekongkista means "reconquest" in Spanish, and is also translated into Korean as "national recovery movement." This means that the Umayyan dynasty restored the lost territory of the Catholic state through the conquest of Iberia.


Lekongkista is usually believed to have started with the Battle of Kobadonga in 722. The Portuguese Léconquista was completed in 1249 when Alfonso III occupied Algarb. Alfonso III was the first Portuguese monarch to wear the title "King of Portugal and Algarb." In 1492, the Spanish Union Kingdom of Fernando II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castilla conquered Granada, the last remaining Islamic occupation, and the Léconquista ended.


The background of Lekon Kista.

From 711 to 756, the Umayyah dynasty conquered Iberia. At that time, the Iberian Peninsula was ruled by the Seogot Kingdom, founded by the Seogot people who converted to the Roman Catholic Church. As the kingdom of Seogot was engulfed in internal strife over the right to inherit the throne, Tarik, the Amir of Morocco, invaded the Iberian Peninsula in the name of the Seogot people's request for support. Moorish warriors, mainly composed of the Werberians of North Africa, conquered all Iberia during this period. As a result, the entire Iberian Peninsula south of the Pyrenees became Islamic, and Muslims ruled Iberia with Cordova as the capital.


Meanwhile, the Islamic army, which advanced beyond the Pyrenees to today's Tour, stopped moving north after being defeated by Karolus Martel of the Frankish Kingdom. The lords of Seogot of Iberia converted to Islam and were recognized or destroyed.


During Islamic rule, the Iberian Peninsula was called Al Andalusia.

Islam's Iberian rule continued stably for a long time after Al-Walid I, the first Amir after the Umayyah dynasty's conquest of Iberia was completed.

However, the Umayyah Dynasty took a discriminatory policy in favor of Arabs in Syria, centered on Damascus, which caused various dissatisfied forces within. This eventually led to a rebellion and the Umayyah dynasty was disbanded. When the Avas dynasty was established after the Umayyah dynasty, Rahman I, the prince of Umayah who survived the Iberian Peninsula, established the Huumayah dynasty. In addition, the Fatima dynasty was established in North Africa, and the Islamic world was divided.


- The beginning of Lekon Kista.

Around 718, Pelagius of Asturias, a Seogot aristocrat and lord of the Asturias Kingdom, rebelled against Munuza, the lord of the Islamic region. Later, Pelagius joined forces with the Duke of Peters of Cantabria to fight the Battle of Kovadonga. This battle was only a rebellion by a Roman Catholic nobleman against the Islamic local government, but later provided the justification for the restoration of the Roman Catholic state on the Iberian Peninsula.



Founded in 750 after the victory of the Avas dynasty in the Battle of Zab and the fall of the Umayyah dynasty, the Huumayah dynasty of Rahman I still ruled almost all of the Iberian Peninsula. However, after the collapse of the Umayyan Dynasty, it was not fully supported by the Amir, the lords of the Islamic region. Barcelona's Amir, who opposed Lachmann I, asked Carolus the Great for support.


In 778, Carolus the Great invaded Iberia. In the early days of the war, Carolus the Great won the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, but was greatly defeated in the Battle of Lonssebayes. In this battle, Carolus lost 12 Paladines, of which was his favorite knight Roland. Roland's death later became the subject of an epic poem called Roland's Song.


Afterwards, Barcelona became a venue for the Frankish Kingdom and the Huumayyah Dynasty, and was eventually occupied by the Frankish Kingdom in 801. Later, the Frankish Kingdom established the Count of Barcelona and ruled Barcelona. The Countess of Barcelona was captured by the Islamic army again in 914, but remained until the 11th century. The Countess of Barcelona became the territory of the Kingdom of Aragon in 1258 after the Albi Crusades by the Treaty of Corbeille signed between Louis I of France and Haime I of the Kingdom of Aragon.



After Pelagius won the Battle of Kobadonga in 718, he declared the establishment of the Kingdom of Asturias, but during his life, it was only a military group based on guerrilla battles. It was during King Alfonso II, Pelacius' grandson, that the Kingdom of Asturias secured territory and established itself as a practical country. Around 750 when the Umayyas ruled the entire Iberian Peninsula, the Asturias Kingdom in the northwest was the only Catholic church country left within the Iberian Peninsula.


From 812 to 814, Alfonso II claimed to have discovered the remains of James while occupying Galasia. In this cause, he succeeded in allowing Carolus the Great and the Pope to approve and support the Kingdom of Asturias. Santiago de Compostella Cathedral was built at the site where Alfonso II reportedly discovered the remains of James. Since then, the continued war between Christian countries and Islam in the Iberian Peninsula has added the justification of protecting the Holy Land.


The Leon Kingdom, which began when King Alfonso I from the Kingdom of Asturias crossed the Cantabrian Mountains and conquered the Leon region, expanded its territory to the Duero River area by King Alfonso III (866-910). Previously, it was called the Asturias-Leon Kingdom, but the capital was moved to Leon in the first generation of Garcia and the country was renamed the Leon Kingdom. It was once conquered by Sancho III of the Navara Kingdom, but became independent again when Sancho III died. The Castile Kingdom originally started as a count of the Leon Kingdom, but after being subjugated to the Navara Kingdom, it was succeeded by the second son of Sancho III and became an independent country.


In 1037, after the death of Sancho III, the Navara Kingdom was divided into the Leon Kingdom, the Castile Kingdom, and the Aragon Kingdom. 

In 824, Pamplona Kingdom was founded through the Basque Rebellion, centering on Pamplona and Navara in the south. The country, which later changed its name to the Navara Kingdom, actively participated in the Lekongkista from the 10th century and grew into a powerful country in the third generation of the mountain in the 11th century. Sancho III conquered the surrounding Count Castile, Count Aragon, and Leon kingdoms and became a strong man in northern Iberia. After the death of Sancho III, the territory of the Navara Kingdom was three minutes old, with the eldest son Sancho Garcia III taking over the Navara Kingdom, the second son Fernando I taking over the Castile Kingdom, and his son Ramiro I taking over the Aragon Kingdom.


Later, the Navara Kingdom maintained the territory of the Navara region and handed over the leadership of the Léconquista to the Castilla Kingdom and the Kingdom of Aragon, and became a weak country. In 1234, the kingdom of Navar was subjugated by France and lost its status as an independent country. Since then, the Navara region has long been a territory of France. Fernando, who was also the monarch of Castilla and Aragon in 1515, declared himself the monarch of the Navara Kingdom and subjugated Navara in 1516.


In 1037, the Huumayan dynasty was eventually defeated due to the continued war and internal rebellion with the Christian state. Later, the Taipas replaced the Huumayya dynasty, but they were subjugated when the Al Moravid dynasty, centered on Morocco, invaded Iberia. However, after the Al-Morabid dynasty was defeated by the Al-Mohad dynasty in 1147, the Islamic territory of the Iberian Peninsula was again ruled by the Thai. Later, until the kingdom of Granada, a Taipa-controlled region that remained until the end of the Lekongkista, surrendered to Espanya, the Islamic ruling region of the Iberian Peninsula was divided into independent Taipas, large and small.


The Cross and the Knights.

The Iberian Peninsula around 1200,

Initially, the Lekonquista was simply a series of conquering wars. However, in the late Middle Ages, in the Christian world, Léconquista was considered a just war to realize religious justice that drove Islam out of the Iberian Peninsula. Religious organizations such as the Pope and Burgundy's Cluny Monastery incited the expulsion of Islam, and knights from all over the country gathered armed to fight against "Pheasant."


In 1064, Pope Alexander II began the war with Barbastro by disseminating a text demanding the fall of Barbastro with an appeal that Catholicism was in crisis. The Pope issued immunity to those who participated in this war. This was 30 years before Pope Urban II convened the first Crusade, and was actually the beginning of the Crusade.[12]


In 1095, Pope Urban II convened the first Crusade and invaded Jerusalem. Meanwhile, King Urban II also urged Targona's occupation, promising the same blessings as the Crusades in Jerusalem and Holy Land to participate in the war against Islam on the Iberian Peninsula. For this reason, even during the Crusades, many knights and armed groups fought against the Thaiists on the Iberian Peninsula. At that time, there were knights who joined the First Crusade like the Iberian Peninsula-based knights, such as the Santiago Knights, the Montessa Knights, and the Calatraba Knights. They fought battles such as the Battle of Alarcos in 1195 and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. As a result, knights who participated in the war were able to conquer the vast regions of Andalusia, Estremadura, and Alente, Portugal, today and use them as Latifundium.[13]


With the collapse of the Almohad Dynasty in 1215 and the establishment of the Marinid Dynasty in western Sahara, the territory of the Thai sects on the Iberian Peninsula became a virtually independent state that no longer belonged to any dynasty. Meanwhile, the Catholic Church kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula were the three kingdoms of Leon, Castile, and Aragon, integrating their surroundings and becoming major forces. These Catholic Church kingdoms continued to conquer the Islamic region with knights who were part of the Crusades. In 1236, Cordova, the center of Islamic rule, fell, and in 1236, even the current Seville fell.


In 1348, the outbreak of the Black Death and the counterattack of the Marinid dynasty centered on Morocco slowed Lekonkista, but the territory of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula was already reduced to the southern part centered on Barcelona and Granada.


- Completion of Lekon Kista.

The Alambra Palace is the palace of Granada Taipa, the last Islamic country in the Iberian Peninsula.

In 1469, Fernando II, the successor to the throne of the Kingdom of Aragon, and Isabel, the successor to the throne of Castilla, married, and the two countries became the joint kingdom of Aragon Castilla, controlled by a joint king.Later, the joint kingdom, which changed its name to Espanya, conquered the Canary Islands in 1478, and on January 2, 1492, conquered Granada, the last bastion of Muslims, ending the Lekongista. This ended 781 years of Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula. Meanwhile, 1492 was also the year Christopher Columbus discovered America.


After conquering Granada, Espanya promulgated the Alambra edict and expelled Muslims and Jews who did not convert to Roman Catholicism.

Empire of wealth, fashion, power...The story of Medici.

 Medici was a family that practically dominated the Italian Florence region during the Renaissance from the 13th to the 17th centuries. Three popes (Leo 10, Clemens VII, and Leo XI) were produced, especially from bankers and politicians. The family, which is also connected to the French and British royal families through marriage, later reigned as the ruler of the Great Department of Toscana. It is widely known as a force that played a major role in the development of Renaissance culture, supporting various artists such as Boticelli, Da Vinci, and Michelangelo.

A prestigious family representing Italy in the Renaissance.

It is famous not only as a guardian of the Italian Renaissance, but also as a leading European financier at the time, and as a ruler of the Republic of Florence and the Republic of Tuscany. Originally from the Muselo region in northeast Florence, the Medici family succeeded in commerce and appeared in the political world of Florence from the 14th century.


During Chiompi's riots (1378-1382), Salvestro, one of the members of this family, participated in the popular side and took the lead in attacking the ruling class, so he gained seriousness. After a while, Giovanni Di(13i(13 (1360-1429) was a banker of commerce and the Vatican, and when he collected a lot of money, he jumped into the political world and played an active role. His son Cosimo de Medici (1389-1464: The so-called Cosimoil Vecio) was praised by the National wealth for his contribution to the development of the Republic of Florence after being expelled for years in conflict with the former ruling class. He established banks in 16 European cities, took control of the Vatican's finances, accumulated huge assets, invested private property in municipal administration, and protected and encouraged academic arts. During his grandson, Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492: also known as Lorenzo Il Magnifico), the prosperity of Florence and Medici peaked, and his outstanding diplomatic skills occupied Florence's pivotal position in Italian politics. It was at this time that Florence's Renaissance culture reached its peak, and he, who had a wide range of humanistic liberal arts, encouraged academic arts, especially philosophical research. Pierrot (1471-1503), who succeeded him, was incompetent and surrendered to the invasion of Charles VIII, king of France, and was expelled (1494) due to opposition from the citizens.


The Medici family returned to Florence in 1512 and produced Pope Leo X and Clemens VII. Medici, who was briefly expelled from Florence when German Emperor Karl V went south (Roman loot), returned with the power of the emperor, and his distant relative Cosimo I (1569-1574) became the Grand Prince of Toscana in 1569, and his son Francesco (1541-1587) drove heavy taxes to ruin the economy. His daughter Maria de Medici became queen of Henry IV, the king of France, and is known in history as Marie de Medicis. The Medici family then married European monarchs. After that, the forces gradually declined, and the family was cut off in 1737 due to the death of the seventh great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grande.


And the Medici produced the Queen of France and the Pope.

This family enjoyed its heyday as a person named Lorenzo Di Medici. Lorenzo played a role in lending money to each monarch based on the Medici Bank and contributed greatly to protecting Italy from powers such as Spain and France. At that time, they were so rich that they said they couldn't fight a war if they didn't borrow money from Medici Bank. And the Republic of Florence, Medici, solidifies the nepotism system and actually transitions to a monarchy. So after his death, he was given the title of Lorenzo Ilmanipico (the great Lorenzo). However, after Lorenzo's death, the Medici family was expelled from the Republic of Florence due to the instigation of Savonarola, the monk of Florence. And decades later, when Lorenzo's second son, Giovanni, became Pope Leo 10, the Medici family established a nepotism system in Florence, and Cosimodi Medici, the nephew of Leo 10, collapsed the republic and founded the Grand National Republic of Toscana to establish a monarchy. From the beginning of the 15th century, the Medici family began to wield power in municipal administration, and Kozimo and his grandson, Lorenz, actually established Medici's dictatorship and entered its golden era as the center of Italian Renaissance culture.


Medici's expulsion and return were repeated from the end of the 15th century, but in 1532, Medici's hereditary system was established and Florence became the capital of the Dictate of Toscana.

It has made its name not only in Florence but also throughout Italy, and is a historic family equivalent to the royal family that sent its daughter to the queen in France.However, not many people know that this famous family is not a historic nobleman from generation to generation, but an ordinary family that started as a peasant, a currency changer, now so-called banker. Therefore, it is natural that this family became famous because of money, not because of its good lineage or martial arts in war.


Gradually increasing the branch network of the financial industry, lending to the king of France, accumulating wealth and fame, and gradually becoming prominent in Florence's politics. At that time, Florence was under the control of several influential families, but the Medici, who made the latest start, took over Florence with Kwon Mo-sul and his skills by controlling the people and using architecture and art as their mass media.


Cosimomedic and LorenzoMedic seem to have been quite clever people.

Even though he was given the title of father of his country, Cosimo did not give up the honor of the supreme citizen.I think it was because of this situation that Medici maintained power for a considerable period of time, even though he was neither a royal family nor a historic noble.


And they glorified their dictatorship by leaving great buildings and artworks.Although the powerful or dynasty disappears silently from history, the Medici occupy a corner of world history as a cultural heritage they left behind.However, their descendants were not as clever as their ancestors. They were deported and returned to their hometown of Florence, but gradually collapsed. However, in the Renaissance era, they knew how to properly use golden universalism and performed the best possible situational and acceptance techniques as citizens.If you look at people's actions, Medici, who played the role of guardian of the Renaissance, you can get a clear answer to the question, "What role should the rich play socially?"


Cosimo I became a lecturer by Greek scholars and a admirer of Plato, reviving the academy Plato had established in his villa. The University of Florence has succeeded in teaching Greek, which has never been known to the Western world over the past 700 years.

This is why the painting of the Athenian School was painted in the Raphael room of St. Peter's Cathedral. Cosimo became the leader of the humanistic movement. With the permission of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire, people were sent to the East, and the literature they collected became the core of a great "Lorenzo Library (Grandchild's Name)" where no other library could match. Florence's palaces and ruins are made by this family.Michelangelo was favored by Lorenzo and built friendships with artists through this family, leaving this family in 1534 and going to Rome. There were also two popes in his family, Leo X (1513-21) and Clemens VII (1523-34). This family accumulated wealth through banks.


Florence's first relationship with us is said to have sold Koreans who were kidnapped during the Imjin War (1592) at the slave market in Nagasaki, Japan. At this time, Karen merchant Carretti took five Korean boys to Goa, a Portuguese colonial city in India, at a bargain price.

Only one of them was taken to Florence, and it is said that this child became the founder of the Western Corean Province. In Sicily, Italy,

Koreonesi is the hometown of these people's hometowns. Mayor Lee and city councilors came to Seoul in 1988 with the board of directors and petitioned the government to find his grandfather, and the head of the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration visited the site in person. These descendants are famous for their Sicily Corleone family.

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