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- 4521: Absolutism And Peter The Great
- ... took control of the Russian throne under the guidance of his mother. Before taking position on the throne, Peter entered manhood through the vast amount of experiences he encountered at a very young age. "He lived through three coups d'etat, constant threats of violence against his family, seven years of semi-exile, his first military campaigns, an unprecedented journey to western Europe and a major revolt against his rule. From ...
- 4522: A Gold Rush Leads To War
- ... v. Sanford, the slave Dred Scott and his wife, Harriett, sued for their freedom from their master, because he had taken them into Michigan, which was a free state. They insisted that since they had lived on free soil, their bonds of slavery were no longer valid. The Supreme Court decided in a shocking decision that not only was the Scotts' claim invalid, but the entire case had been unconstitutional, because ...
- 4523: The Twenties And Thirties
- ... still go the movies if they had the money. In the thirties, everyone watched a lot of television and listened to the radio. In contrast to the twenties, the thirties were very depressing. Evidentially, it lived up to its name. In the twenties, people had parties all of the time. Everybody in America was keeping themselves busy. Hunting and camping were very popular, but there were also many other outside events ...
- 4524: Was Colonial Culture Uniquely
- ... of the colonies was also influenced by other European cultures. After 1680 large numbers of immigrants came from Europe (Welling, 1996). Throughout the colonies Dutch, Swedes, and Germans could be found (Welling, 1996). French Huguenots lived in South Carolina and other scattered places, as did the Spanish, Italians, and Portuguese (Welling, 1996). The English ceased to be the chief source of immigration as early as 1680 (Welling, 1996), although they still ...
- 4525: Christianity In The New World
- ... riches discovered in the New World should be dedicated to the recapture of Jerusalem from the Moslems. Columbus saw the discovery of the New World as a prophesy coming true. He saw the Indians that lived there as a labor source that should be christianized and used for the greater good of the church. Two papal bulls were issued in the year of 1493 that established the Spanish position in the ...
- 4526: Aztec 2
- ... who had died in childbirth. In the afternoon they took the sun on his way, at night they sometimes returned to earth and their ghostly apparitions scared women and small children. In the highest heavens, lived the two creators, Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl. Deceased infants and the unborn souls of the next human age were in existence there. They were nourished by a large heavenly tree. So through observation we can see ...
- 4527: Attributes That Have Influence
- ... their calendar year. (Roberts, p.72) They were ingenious enough to realize that that is how long that it takes for the earth to make it s orbit around the sun. Even though the Egyptians lived almost ten thousand years ago, their calendar system is still used by the people of western civilization today, only with a few changes. The only thing that really has changed was that instead of having ...
- 4528: A Piece Of My Heart (book)
- ... most important tools used by farmers which their entire lives revolved around; the the rocketing of apartment complexes to get a sniper or two, in the process losing the support of hundreds of Vietnamese who lived in those complexes. She also admonished the Strategic Hamlet Program, saying that removing locals from their sacred, ancestral ground was a terrible sin to commit in the culture of the Vietnamese. She herself exclaimed, "I ...
- 4529: Arhurian Romances
- ... on quests to test her love for him and in the end believes that she truly loves him and only him. They kiss and embrace each other and she was no longer dismayed and they lived together happily afterwards. In the story of Perceval we can see how courtly love and chivalry tie in with suffering and atonement. Perceval was not a trained knight at first. Everything he learned about being ...
- 4530: Ancient Babylon
- ... ancient times. Zoroastrianism played a big role in the success of the Persian Empire. It taught them how to lead other people and how to have patience. The prophet Zoroaster introduced Zoroastrianism to Persia. Zoroaster lived in about 600 BC and rejected the Old Persian Gods. He though there was only one wise god named Ahura Mazda and that Ahura Mazda ruled the world. He also believed that Ahura Mazda was ...
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