THe Hundred Years' War
.... a male heir and the nobles decided to pass the crown to a cousin, Philip of Valois. But this left two other male cousins equally deserving of the crown; Charles, King of Navarre and Edward III, King of England.Edward III claimed that he himself was deserving of the throne because his mother was the sister of the late French king, while Philip VI was only a cousin. But according to French law, no women could inherit the throne, nor could the crown be inherited through a woman.
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The French Revolution's Affect On Romanticism
.... Society was divided into privileged and unprivileged classes, (Leinward 452) with Eighteenth- century writers focusing on the lives of the upper class. (Thompson 857) These writers followed "formal rules"(Thorlby 282), and based their works on scientific observations and logic (Thompson 895).
The Revolution gave the common people and writers more freedom to express feelings and stimulated them to use reason. According to Thompson, The Revolution "had a major impact on Nineteenth- Cen .....
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The Spanish Inquisition
.... backward, and economically and industrially damaged. The powerful influence of the Inquisition forbade social influences, such as books from other parts of Europe, to enter Spain. Consequently, the universities remained stagnant, unable to produce graduates understanding the world around them. from the lack of information on the other civilizations in the rest of Europe. As a result of this, they came into the 20th century intellectually inferior and bankrupt. With the banished, tortured, and per .....
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The Scientific Revolution In The 17th Century
.... Science was diffused by public demonstrations, but not always with much success. Galileo on many occasions, assembled notable philosophers and tried to convince them of his discovery of the moons around Jupiter. These eminent practitioners were allowed to view the heavens through Galileo’s telescope. The telescope, being invented by Galileo, proved to be a wonderful tool to view land based objects and no one disagreed with that. But, when pointed at the sacred heavens, many of the notaries said i .....
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World War 2
.... thought I had the subject down, but I learned that I knew as much as or less than the average person about WWII. First off, I was not aware that the war actually started in Europe, I thought that the start of the war started when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. I did not know that the Japanese also bombed placed such as the Philippines, Thailand, and Malaya. I was not aware of all the islands taken over by Japan. The Japanese took over the Philippines and many other small islands to expand their t .....
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The Effect Of Militancy In The British Suffragette Movement
.... Mail, but adopted easily by the female suffragists1) was Mary Smith, an unmarried property owner. In 1832 she quietly petitioned Parliament urging the inclusion of propertied women as those priveleged to vote for members of Parliament. The House of Commons laughed at the petition, a reaction that would be repeated several times over the next few decades, until the entire nation was forced to consider the question of women's suffrage seriously.Through much effort, by the early twentieth century English femi .....
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Australia Joining World War 1
.... their friends had. Some simply enlisted because they needed a job, pay, and regular meals, but many enlisted in the army for an adventure, not knowing the true horrors of war. Private A.J. McSparrow (former railway worker from Parramatta, NSW), was one of the many men whwo enlisted because he felt that it was his duty to support the 'mother country' ..."I have (enlisted) ... and I don't regret it in the very least. I believe that it is every young fellow's duty" and "... we are the sort of men who sh .....
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Beringia To The Revolution
.... and England came in search of land and founded Jamestown, the first permanent colony.
The English started colonies all along the coast. Not long after they were established, it became evident that two very different lifestyles were developing in the Northern and Southern colonies. Indentured servants soon became obsolete. Instead people were beginning to turn towards slavery. Slavery existed in all the colonies, but it was vital to the South. Indians were first used as slaves. However, the .....
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The Battle Of Waterloo
.... ended French domination of the European continent and brought about drastic changes in the political boundaries and the power balance of Europe. Fought on June 18, 1815, near Waterloo, in what is now Belgium, the battle ranks as a great turning point in modern history.
After raising France to a position of preeminence in Europe from 1804 to 1813, Napoleon (pictured above) met defeat in 1814 by a coalition of major powers, notably Prussia, Russia, Great Britain, and Austria. Napoleon was then depos .....
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Tradition And World War 1
.... The Revolution commenced largely for the reason that the nobles and the aristocrats were continuously outvoting the 3eme Etat, which in turn caused much friction between the two groups. Therefore the 3eme Etat proposed to the King that the nobles be placed in their estate, and accordingly he conformed to their demands.
Secondly, we can look at the act of perfectionism in France at this time. This basically stated that the Republic must be made up of active citizens, and in turn would be built .....
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The Battle Between The Spanish Armada And The British Fleet In 1588
.... with a passion. He tried to plot against her ages ago with Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, in 1568. She was beheaded in 1587 for she pose a threat to the queen and England's safety. Finally Philip decided he had to do something about it himself. He drew up a flawless plan that wouldn't underrating England's ability to defend herself, Philip organized a brilliant fleet, which he called his Spanish Armada. It was called 'Invincible', the fleet of unprecedented size and strength. His Armada consisted of ab .....
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Greek And Roman Influences On Modern Society
.... which remained in use in many classrooms until very recently (including Montgomery). Sadly, Pythagoras, and other mathematicians, hit a roadblock which stopped mathematics almost completely until modern times. Irrational numbers scared them, and they decided that something irrational had no place in the rational world. Of course, today we have overcome those fears, and there are several irrational numbers which are indespensible, like pi.
The Greeks also evolved history and drama. Both had been aro .....
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The Holocaust
.... anti-Jewish law was passed in Germany. A couple of years later, the Jews slowly began to loose their rights. For example, Jewish children were expelled from German schools simply because of their religious beliefs. After that, people were beginning to be sent to ghettos. Ghettos were places where the Jews were isolated from other people. There were usually walls or fences to keep them in their own place, because they were basically rejected from society.
After spending some time in the ghettos, they w .....
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The Causes Of The Holocaust
.... 57). Germany also lost all of its colonies overseas. It had to give back provinces to France, Belgium, and Denmark. France got German coal mines and Gda sk, now a city in Poland, became a "free city." Poland gained most of Western Prussia and Germany's Rhineland was demilitarized, although allied troops occupied it for fifteen years after the war (Shirer 59). The Treaty also solely held Germany responsible for the War in a "war guilt" clause which greatly upset the Germans. When the German government .....
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Importance Of The Renaissance Period For European Overseas Exploration
.... This way a group of people could focus on the same idea or belief and work together to accomplish the same task, without handwriting their individual research for everyone in the group.
Throughout the Renaissance, there was a general idea of Humanism. humanism is the belief that people should seek their own guidance and fulfillment in life through gaining knowledge of the world. Many cartographers were inspired by this belief and therefore began to learn more about the world through both navigation .....
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