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- 521: Spanish Influence
- ... lived. The Church was the first and most important social institution because Spanish life in the colonies revolved around Catholicism. The Church's goal was to convert everyone presently living in the New World to Christianity. This topic brings us to the Missions. Missions were large estates on which were set up schools and other facilities to teach the Indians to become proper Christians. encomiendas and repartimientos were also large estates ...
- 522: The Rise of the Manchus
- ... Chinese had been converted, the missionaries--mostly Jesuits--contributed greatly to Chinese knowledge in such fields as cannon casting, calendar making, geography, mathematics, cartography, music, art, and architecture. The Jesuits were especially adept at fitting Christianity into a Chinese framework and were condemned by a papal decision in 1704 for having tolerated the continuance of Confucian ancestor rites among Christian converts. The papal decision quickly weakened the Christian movement, which it ...
- 523: Monasticism And Intellectual L
- ... of the time. Only when certain reform efforts were made did any unity and progress exist. Schools seemed to make slow but steady progress, at least for men. Throughout all of the changes and reform, Christianity and intellectual life survived and spread to most people in Europe.
- 524: Pascals Wager
- ... existence of God.(www.saintmarys.edu) Obviously Pascal is trying to defend the belief in god using this proof. It's important always to remember Pascal's project of trying to provide a defense of Christianity. Part of the crowd that Pascal hung around with before his conversion did all the things he later identified as diversion: hunting, partying, but especially gambling. Pascal himself is often credited with inventing roulette. So ...
- 525: The Gothic Age
- ... people could fit into it all at the same time to go to the same mass. It had a floor that was seven thousand, seven hundred square meters. New Ideas in the Cathedral that Reflected Christianity There were many aspects about Gothic cathedrals that reflected the then modern-day ways of life, such as how a common belief in those times was that the closer you were to God, the holier ...
- 526: The Yugoslavian Conflict
- ... the south and the east were controlled by the Ottoman Empire. This had extreme effects on the ethnic, cultural and economic differences between the two sides. The three major religions in Yugoslavia were Greek Orthodox, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, and Islam. The population in the north and west parts of the country were mostly Catholic and the further south and east you went the population became more Orthodox. Though these are all ...
- 527: Slavery
- ... of bringing slaves were debtors, who sold themselves or members of their families into slavery, and persons convicted of serious crimes. Unfortunately, dependents on slaves contributing significantly to the fall of Rome. The introduction of Christianity, its adoption as the official religion of the Roman Empire, and its subsequent spread over Europe and parts of the Middle East during the Middle Ages tended to improve the conditions but didn’t eliminate ...
- 528: The Holocaust - The Way It Was
- ... The Spanish Inquisition of the 1400's forced Jews to convert, leave Spain or be burned at the stake. Jews became increasingly distant from Christians following physical separation during the first century, the waxing of Christianity and the waning of Judaism, and the preservation of practices by Jews that were adopted by Christians. For example, the Saturday Sabbath, circumcision, not eating pork, and reading Hebrew. Medieval Jews were kept out of ...
- 529: Megellan's Voyage
- ... to be their final destination, and Magellan's final resting place. Magellan is remembered as a great Captain-General who continued to explore, despite the objections of his crew. He also converted many people to Christianity throughout his voyage, and was pleased to see how easily people took to it. It was his ministry that led to his demise, however. He attempted to convert all of Philippine, and only Cebu and ...
- 530: The Vikings
- ... would be born into slavery. If one of these men ever tried to run away he could end up beaten, dead, or one of his body parts could be cut off. Once the Vikings studied Christianity, thralls were beginning to be treated better. A thrall could be given time to work for himself and might be able to buy or be rewarded his freedom. The second and middle class were the ...
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