In the article “Did the Early Middle Ages Really Exist?” by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz, Niemitz elaborates on his own theory regarding the validity of the recorded timeline, events and people of the middle ages. I disagree with Niemitz claim that a portion of the middle ages was fabricated. Niemitz claims that the rulers in Europe would want to seem more auspicious and powerful and therefore would also most likely be politically motivated to maintain their power by changing the calendar and…
people hear the hear the words Middle Ages they usually think of knights in shining armor, nobles, kings and queens. But if you ask a historian they would say death, disease, poverty, unfairness, unsanitary, unexpected in the medical field. So something like the Black death could easily slaughter anyone who caught it. The Black Death didn't care what class they were if they caught it, it would mean certain death. The Black Death the worst epidemic of the Middle Ages the most mind boggling thing…
photographing, spreading, and owning child pornography for “sexting” nude photographs of themselves to other minors. According to page 185 of the book, Under current Washington law, any minor involved simply in consensual sexting with a person his or her own age faces felony charges, up to five years in prison, and mandatory sex offender registration. Child pornography laws were not intended to address sexting, the legal consequences…
Life tends to progress in a linear fashion, from start to finish, infancy to old age, birth to death. Within a lifetime there is the progression, accumulation of experience, understanding, knowledge, memory, and relationships all shaping one’s identity, understanding of one’s self and one’s place in the world thus giving meaning to life. Alzheimer’s disease impedes that linear process; when memories are lost or when the capacity to form new memories vanishes an important link to the content of…
Life tends to progress in a linear fashion, from start to finish, infancy to old age, birth to death. Within a lifetime there is the progression, accumulation of experience, understanding, knowledge, memory, and relationships all shaping one’s identity, understanding of one’s self and one’s place in the world thus giving meaning to life. Alzheimer’s disease impedes that linear process; when memories are lost or when the capacity to form new memories vanishes an important link to the content of…
Evidence that the Principle of Legitimacy is paramount in ruling any group of people can also be seen in other historical events apart from the English Civil War. The French Revolution was a period of uprising that happened in France from 1787-1799. It was a result of a prolonged political and social conflict that the people of France were unhappy with. After King Louis XVI’s execution in 1793, the Reign of Terror began as the revolutionary government was being controlled by the Committee of…
He was a sailor at the age of 15.Vasco Da Gama was born in 1460 or 1469. No one really knows his exact birth date. He was born on the southwest of Portugal, possibly in a house near a church. Vasco Da Gama was the son of Estevao Da Gama and Isabel. During his childhood, Vasco…
Most people view Medieval medicine as useless or ineffectual, but it was very useful, although the epidemic was a tragedy of it made us thrive for new medicine. Medicine could go from Anise,Licorice to stomping on a plucked dead, burning owl to treat someone in this time and nobody knows if any of it really helped. Diseases such as the “bloody flux”, “ holy fire”,gonorrhea,influenza,plague was going around at this time. Seeing this it opened their eyes and they saw they needed better ways to…
INTRO When someone says the word Viking, I’d be willing to bet that the majority of us immediately think of a great, long- bearded beast with a battle-axe in one hand and alcohol in the other, bent on pillage and conquest. Something akin to a pirate. Our modern, romanticized impressions of who and what the Vikings were contain a lot of myths and misconceptions. An array of books, movies and television shows have been inspired by a modern fascination with Vikings. However, many inaccurately…
Norman F, Cantor is Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. Cantor sections his book to explain to his readers the effects of the plague that caused so much destruction. The Black Death was a pandemic that occurred in the 1300s and left civilizations destroyed from the massive amount of people it killed. Cantor explains that there will most likely always be a degree of uncertainty about the plague because of the limitations from the medical…