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- 1321: Civil War Journal
- ... people that are ordering us around, do not get killed, but we are the ones. It is the people on the mountain that are controlling the people in the valley down below. Why, why oh Lord are we fighting now? I realize that I wanted to have States' Rights and secession is good, but we need to end the Hell now and give peace a chance. I am now contemplating this ...
- 1322: How England Instigated The Ame
- ... to self-government and taxation without representation. The colonies also refused to import British goods, urging the British merchants to place pressure on parliament to repeal the Townshend Duties. In 1770, a new Prime Minister, Lord North, was elected and he disbanded the Townshend Duties but kept the tax on tea (The American Revolution, pg.163). In 1770 there was a drastic change in the arguments made by the colonists. "The ...
- 1323: The Correlation Between Chines
- ... of his birthright. The serf had first attend his masters’ land and then was allowed to tend to his own. The common serf was not allowed to ever leave his masters’ fief. Also if the lord of the land was in need of a women then the serfs’ daughters or wife may be subject. The life of a serf was better than a slave in that he was allowed the right ...
- 1324: Impact Of The Renaissance
- ... he wills”. (Kishlansky, Geary, O’Brien; Civ in the west; pg.329-330) Humanists however were not anti-religious, on the contrary most of them were devout religious men, as Petrarch says “Christ is my lord; Cicero is the prince of the language I use”. Yet there has never been a controversial or important than Niccolo Machiavelli’s The prince. It’s vivid prose being-“ Men must either be pampered or ...
- 1325: George III, Our Last King
- ... good and he locked himself up, talking to no one. George waited for him to recover for many years in which time the country of England slipped more and more into ruin. George then found Lord North. North's association with George, however, would be disasterous to England and very fortunate for America. North tried to be released from the king's side, but George refused, knowing that doing so would ...
- 1326: The Political And Religious Wi
- ... stubborn (Buchan 53/54). Oliver Cromwell emerges as the leader of the dissenters and quickly takes control of a volatile situation. The last words of Oliver Cromwell as written by John Buchan are as follows: “’Lord, tough I am a miserable wretched creature…give them consistency of judgment, one heart, and mutual love…’” (441). The improvised republic was now over, as stated by John Buchan: “A republic can not be made ...
- 1327: Hundreds Years War
- ... trade with Gascony and the wool trade with Flanders. These resources were needed to help finance the war. However, his campaign ended in retreat. The Gascons were opportunists. They did not adhere firmly to one lord. Even though they did better under English rule, they were not resistant to the French. Consequently, France gradually gained control of the Channel trade routes. Then King Henry V renewed The Hundred Years' War with ...
- 1328: Gothic Cathedrals
- ... ground plans. Encyclopedia Britannica ’97 describes the “flying” effect of this buttress of hiding the masonry supports of the structure: “a semi-detached curved pier connects with an arch to a wall and extends (or “flies”) to the ground or a pier some distance away. The delicate elegance of Gothic cathedrals is different from the “Heavy buttresses jutting out between the chapels” of Romanesque churches,. From the outside, aesthetic consideration of ...
- 1329: The Return To Mecca, Muhammad
- ... Qur`an revealed to Muhammad emphasize the goodness and power of God, as seen in nature and in the prosperity of the Meccans, and call on the Meccans to be grateful and to worship "the Lord of the Ka’bah," who is thus identified with God. Gratitude is to be expressed in generosity with one’s wealth and avoidance of niggardliness. As a sanction, men are warned that they will appear ...
- 1330: The Evolution Of The World
- ... a flat earth accepted and why were those of a spherical earth ridiculed? The answer to this question is very simple and can be answered by one clear and concise word: Religion. "Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her." (Ezekiel 5:5) This verse from the of book Ezekiel simply states that the ...
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