Where would you go?

[ahile]

Persian people are mostly beautiful in my opinion. They have the combination of every race in their looks.

That is it!

Moreover, their cultures are so different from any other cultures in the world. They seem to be so "soft" and yet so mysterious. There seems to be hiding a lot of wonderful things in their cultures.

[MissLT]

Persian people are mostly beautiful in my opinion. They have the combination of every race in their looks.

That is it!

Moreover, their cultures are so different from any other cultures in the world. They seem to be so "soft" and yet so mysterious. There seems to be hiding a lot of wonderful things in their cultures.

Yeah, their culture, I think, still has some commons with Mongolian culture since it was under Mongolia Empire for several years.

"Persia under the Mongols and their successors (1219-1500)
In 1218, Genghis Khan sent ambassadors and merchants to the city of Otrar, on the northeastern confines of the Khwarizm shahdom. The governor of Otrar had these envoys executed. Genghis, out of revenge, sacked Otrar in 1219 and continued on to Samarkand and other cities of the northeast.

Genghis' grandson, Hulagu Khan, finished what Genghis had begun when he conquered Persia, Baghdad, and much of the rest of the Middle East in 1255-1258. Persia became the Ilkhanate, a division of the vast Mongol Empire.

In 1295, after Ilkhan Ghazan converted to Islam, he renounced all allegiance to the Great Khan. The Ilkhans patronized the arts and learning in the fine tradition of Persian Islam; indeed, they helped to repair much of the damage of the Mongol conquests.

In 1335, the last Ilkhan's death spelled the end of the Ilkhanate. It splintered into a number of small states. This left Persia open to still more conquest at the hands of another conqueror connected with the Mongol Empire: Timur the Lame or Tamerlane. He invaded Persia beginning around 1370 and plundered the country until his death in 1405. Timur was an even bloodier conqueror than Genghis had been. In Isfahan, for instance, he slaughtered 70,000 people so that he could build towers with their skulls. He conquered a wide area and made his own city of Samarkand rich, but he made no effort to forge a lasting empire. Persia was essentially left in ruins.

For the next hundred years Persia was not a unified state. It was ruled for a while by descendants of Timur, called the Timurid emirs. Toward the end of the 1400s, Persia was taken over by the Emirate of the White Sheep Turkmen (Ak Koyunlu). But there was little unity and none of the sophistication that had defined Persia during the glory days of Islam. "
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire )

[diarycentury]

I'm too poor,so i can't tell you where i would go. but if i enough rich perhaps i will choose china. yes i think i've heard about china very much, but i haven't got any appotunity for to go to there . you know , i'm a student, so Culture change, discover more and more about the wold very important. i hope i will go there for a short time. i think !

[FIVER]

I'd lOVE to go visit Japan! I love their culture, their language and their fashion. I've heard they are really polite and well mannered. I really want to go to the Ginza shopping district just to look at all the traffic and buildings.

[MissLT]

I'd lOVE to go visit Japan! I love their culture, their language and their fashion. I've heard they are really polite and well mannered. I really want to go to the Ginza shopping district just to look at all the traffic and buildings.

Let's go to Tokyo together!

[FIVER]

Let's go to Tokyo together!

I can't wait! Let's go to the temples and during a festival season!!! It's gonna be so much fun! HAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We can't miss out on wearing a yukata either! OK, thinking of going to Japan get's me excited...

[Lalee]

East Asia.

[MissLT]

We'll check out the big Buddha, eat udon, and don't forget to check out Japanese chicks. They're so cute. *dreaming*