Viking Age

Proprietorship: The status of one individual owning and running a business. Significance: As colonization progressed, proprietorships were able to obtain new lands and rule them according to their laws. Quakers: A group of people who believe in the inner divinity of Jesus Christ within the soul. Significance: Many Quakers were immigrants because they were punished in England for refusing to commit acts that go against their religious ideals. Navigation Acts: Acts that were created in England…

The Enlightenment was not for everyone, many people were left out such as women, and slaves. The Enlightenment was meant for everyone but actually were only for certain people who had certain traits such as being a European male who owned property. The Enlightenment took away power from many monarchs and dictators. Democracy was an important part of government in this time, many cities changed their government to democracy once their old ruler was overthrown. People started to realise that they…

Taken from a letter written by Franklin for Joseph Priestley, an English chemist, the quote attempts to answer the question, what is Enlightenment? The purpose of the letter was to thank Priestley for his critic on a paper Franklin had written on the Aurora Borealis. This letter was written during the Enlightenment, which included writers that focused on an exchange of ideas. This time period was not just about intellectual improvements, but also political and social improvements. There were…

There has been many plagues throughout history but not one earning the name the black death in the thirteenth century. The bubonic plague was a deadly disease that decimated Europe’s population and infrastructure during the mid fourteenth to early fifteenth century, but while it had a positive effect on the economy at the same time religion was at a decline. The bubonic plague is an ancient disease that is derived from a bacteria called yersinia pestis that infects rodents and then transmitted…

services. On the other hand, unless labor market participation and productivity improve, population aging will bring negative impact to Canada. At the meantime, population aging is also expected to put upward pressure on public expenditures, notably for age-related programs such as elderly benefits and health care (Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections — 2014: Part 4 of…

Mysteries of Manhood Coming of age is something that all of humanity has complete, whether every individual makes this happen is up in the air. In the book,The First Part Last, Angela Johnson describes a young teenage boy named Bobby and how he had to change his life completely in order to fit the description of being a man, and this is shown through symbolism. Being a man is not about how much weight you put on a bar and squat or bench it or how someone never backs down from a challenge. Bobby…

The Black Plague resulted the death of an estimated 25 to 60 percent of Europeans. The Black Death spread through Western Europe between 1348 and 1349. It was called the plague because it killed more people than anything before. The Black Death led to many changes one of them being that farmland was not used which reduced the output of food. Another change was that the demand for labor rose. The Black Plague spread through Europe from 1347 to 1351. It was called a plague because it killed…

As one ages, they gain more respect. The elderly traditionally possess a high position in society. Moreover, the belief of taking care of one's parents since they took care of you, is widespread across Asia. Subsequently, Western society should use Asian countries…

The Christian Crusades Almost 200 years ago during the middle ages, the crusades wrested control over the Palestine Region from Selcuk turks due to a series of military incursions that were made up of christian armies from western europe. The control that the christian crusades had over the Holy land were tenuous at its best. Today, the crusades that Hollywood has put in our minds: glorious and righteous warriors in form of knights leading the crusades, anointed by god to save the Holy land…

Renaissance Europe spanned between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries and spread out of Italy. Renaissance means the “rebirth”, so the “rebirth” of Europe. This time in Europe was a time of social and cultural change, and was singularized by innovation and creativity. Examples of this include art, literature and philosophy. The art was centralized around being more life-like and showing perspective. Artists like Michelangelo were able to show better human anatomy in paintings and statues…