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- 1221: The Renaissance Period
- ... techniques, and new systems of government. These things gave rise to a new type of scholar, the humanist. Humanist is mainly concerned with humankind and culture. They studied various things such as Latin, Greek, and Literature and Philosophy. Music and Mathematics were also studied as well. So this paved the way for the great artist that we recognize today. Born in an artistically influenced town of Italy called Urbanio, Raffaello was ...
- 1222: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... 1894. II YOUNG REVOLUTIONARY Stalin began his studies at the seminary as a devout believer in Orthodox Christianity. He was soon exposed to the radical ideas of fellow students, however, and began to read illegal literature based on the works of German political philosopher Karl Marx. In 1899, just as he was about to graduate, he gave up his religious education to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the ...
- 1223: Holocaust Revisited
- ... killed and others committed suicide. When the Nazis strengthened and consolidated their rule in the March elections, outbreaks against Jews increase the intensity. From the facts of the Holocaust and the thousands of volumes of literature written about the Holocaust, I have derived that the policy of genocide was prefigured in Nazi persecutions of the Jews before the war. This paper will discuss the measures in which the Jews were tormented ...
- 1224: The Mongol Invasion of China
- ... began to appeal to the sympathy of a larger audience and aroused an ardent feeling of identification with the story being acted out. The subject matter of the Yόan plays is often taken from humbler literature of the previous periods, such as the short stories of the T'ang era, or from history; complicated crime and love-stories were, of course, very popular. This type of drama was usually well plotted ...
- 1225: The Hellenistic Age
- ... very strong over the poleis. These huge political units now overshadowed the old city-states. The urban elite in these kingdoms spoke Koine (common) Greek, which became the new international language. The religion, art and literature were a cosmopolitan blend of Greek and native elements. Many new cities were founded, most important of which was Alexandria in Egypt. Under the Ptolemies, who used their wealth to attract poets, scholars, artists, and ...
- 1226: Ancient Egyptians and the Norsemen: Creating the Past
- ... two humans so it is [said] that all nations and all families and every race of human beings came from [them] (Hamilton 71). One of the homes of the Vikings, Iceland, was the home of literature and prose, and that explains why the myths of the Vikings are longer, more detailed, and generally better overall (Cavendish 178). Iceland, along with many other Viking homes, was a country of volcanoes and bubbling ...
- 1227: The Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment in Europe
- ... strong but enlightened. An enlightened monarch was a ruler who studied the science of government and protected basic rights of people. Voltaire was the most famous of the Philosophes. He wrote almost every type of literature, exhibiting most of the main elements of the Enlightenment. Jean Jacques Rousseau was also vital to the Enlightenment. He was spokesman of the common people. He believed human nature was good, and that society corrupted ...
- 1228: The Rise of the Manchus
- ... philosophy, emphasizing the obedience of subject to ruler, was enforced as the state creed. The Manchu emperors also supported Chinese literary and historical projects of enormous scope; the survival of much of China's ancient literature is attributed to these projects. Ever suspicious of Han Chinese, the Qing rulers put into effect measures aimed at preventing the absorption of the Manchus into the dominant Han Chinese population. Han Chinese were prohibited ...
- 1229: The Holocaust - The Way It Was
- ... and conviction. The 20,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany were banned in April 1933 because their religion prohibited them from swearing any oath to the state or providing service in the state military. The literature of the Jehovah's Witnesses was confiscated. They lost their jobs along with their unemployment benefits, social welfare benefits, and pensions. Many of them were put in concentration camps and prisons; their children went to ...
- 1230: Napoleon: Does History Repeat Itself From People Seeking Power?
- ... his goal he intended to achieve it by concentrating power in his own hands . However, in the states he created, Napoleon granted constitutions, introduced law codes, abolished feudalism, created efficient governments and fostered education, science, literature and the arts . Emperor Napoleon proved to be a superb civil administrator. One of his greatest achievements were his supervision of the revision and collection of French law into codes. The new law codes, seven ...
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