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- 2351: The Five Institutions Of The Middle Ages
- ... charity, loyalty, purity, temperance, courage, and justice. The church also tried to enforce the idea of "just price" by insisting the cost of all goods should be based on their material value. Clearly, medieval Europeans lived under the umbrella of the church. Although all the medieval institutions had their own separate strengths and weaknesses, combined they created a diverse society both exciting and secure... at least for a while.
- 2352: The Influence Of The French Revolution On Romanticism
- ... presented. The cultural values of The French Revolution and Romanticism will then be linked. Finally, literary examples will be shown to support this connection between the two movements. Before the Revolution, the citizens of France lived in a strict, confined society with no freedom to express their feelings. Government had imposed strong, unfair laws on the common people (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia "French Revolution"). They wanted a voice in a stable ...
- 2353: The Holocaust - The Way It Was
- ... authorized an order to kill institutionalized, handicapped patients deemed "incurable." State hospitals filled out questionnaires on their patients, which were then reviewed by a special commission of physicians who would simply decide if the subject lived or died. Those marked for death were sent to one of six death camps in Germany and Austria, where special gas chambers killed them. Public protests in 1941 forced the Nazis to continue this "euthanasia ...
- 2354: The Transition Of Religion And Superstition To Science And Technology In The Middle Ages
- ... These two periods were not separated by a definite date and time, but rather many years of gradual realization and awareness. This kind of perception is what creates history. For hundreds of years, people who lived during the early Middle Ages had been using religion as a gateway to explain their most simplistic questions. During that period, the Church was gaining control over Western Europe. The Church was not only the ...
- 2355: A Statistical View Of European Rural Life, 1600-1800
- Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the average European's diets varied greatly due to natural causes. Most peasants lived in unsanitary conditions, far away from conventional medical help, and would live in a single room with a large family. Most farmers were illiterate especially in Southern Europe and their farming technology was not updated ...
- 2356: Explanation Of The Holocaust In Freud's "Civilization And Its Discontents"
- ... neighboring Germany. More specifically, he was in a position to view the beginning of Hitler's rise to power. It is interesting to note that Vienna of the early twentieth century where Hitler and Freud lived was under the control of a mayor who was a severe Anti- Semite, who was eventually barred from running for office by the Pope. Hitler began his rise to power in 1924 when he attempted ...
- 2357: Canada In WWI
- ... 1820's Canadian workers began to form unions to help ensure equality and job security. Many strikes were staged all across the country in an effort to improve working conditions. These hard times were short lived, however, because in 1923 Canada's economy was once again on track. Farmers produced bumper crops, and their wheat was in high demand in war torn Europe. People began to settle in Western Canada, and ...
- 2358: The Pyramids Of Egypt
- ... Imagine looking around and seeing beautiful buildings, fields of crops, and the great pyramids with their white limestone façade blazing in the sun of the midday. It would be quite the experience to have lived back then. The history of Egypt begins with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into one united kingdom. The first ruler under this new system was Menes. Thirty other dynasty's would follow. To ...
- 2359: The History Of The Peace In Rome, The Pax Romana
- ... day. The German tribes noticed this and attacked us along the Danube River. These wars were in their favor but we pulled through in the end. This extremely strained the Pax Romana but somehow we lived through this and it prospered. It was until the recent death of our emperor, Marcus Aurelius, that the Pax Romana ended.
- 2360: Tennyson As A Victorian
- ... fired at the whim of the owner or the fluctuation of the market. There was no way to make a better life for oneself because you were born into a certain social status, or you lived a life of poverty for the rest of your life or you were one of the privileged classes and were guaranteed the status of the royalty. The Victorian years also brought with them the increasing ...
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