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the six "Brandenburg" Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach”(npr). The full title of the piece, by Johann Sebastian Bach, on autograph score is “Concerto 3zo a tre Violini, tre Viole, è tre Violoncelli col Basso per il Cembalo.” Bach wrote the piece in 1718, but its first publication was in 1851. This section of the six orchestral pieces composed by him is the only one with a more conservative musical design. This piece exemplifies the period that it’s from because it “…is the absolutely equal…

Louis XIV son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria also known as “the sun king” is the perfect example to describe absolutism. The sun king is born in 1638 and died in 1718 in versailles. His reign of 72 year was longer than any other european sovereign. During his reign he established his kingdom as the dominant european power by transforming the monarchy centralizing the control of his country and harshly ruling his country with absolute power. Louis XIV also made a mark to art literature music…

The Queen Anne’s Revenge had sunk in 1718 located in North Carolina, in Beaufort. Not only that, this ship had always had weapons such as spikes, or nails .Also, it was a flagship. A flagship is a main ship that belongs to a pirate, normally a captain. In this case, The Queen Anne’s Revenge…

city but grew into a large trade hub. With the repealing of the Navigation and Alien Acts, Glasgow merchants could start to import goods from the American and Caribbean colonies into Great Britain and then further into Europe which they started in 1718 increasing to 65 ships in 1735 to 386 in 1783. As this trade began the city began to develop to facilitate the transfer of goods, port facilities for the ships, warehouses for the goods, custom houses for custom officers to search and tax…

Daniel Bernoulli, proclaimed to be the greatest out of all the Bernoulli in his family, made the basis for the kinetic theory of gases, applied the idea of Boyle’s law, worked on elasticity with Leonhard Euler, the development of the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation, and one of the most important Bernoulli’s Principle which is critical to aerodynamics. At the beginning of Daniel’s life he wasn’t allowed to choose what he wanted to be or be able to pursue the career he wanted, but this shaped the…

ended in America, the British had to find a new place to send their convicts. The British were sending almost more than 1,000 convicts per year to the US. Experts estimated that over 52,000 British prisoners were shipped off to colonial America between 1718…

François-Marie Arouet, or more universally known as Voltaire, was born November 21, 1699, in Paris, France. He was a French philosopher, historian and writer of the Age of Enlightenment. He valued the right for individuals to have their own thoughts, as well as the ability to change religions. According to Donald M. Borchert, in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Voltaire, as a young man, “was a fully religious person,” (Borchert 711). However, as he got older, Voltaire began to resent those who…

mid 1700s there was a large number of slaves living in British North America as well as their was a small population of free black Americans many of who lived in the state of Maryland. In the great beautiful city of New Orleans which was founded in 1718 controlled by the French not British, a free mixed race people lived called the “creoles” who lived along the whites…

It has taken millions of years to create Louisiana. Many things have contributed to the growth of Louisiana. One of the only things that creates land are rivers. In Louisiana, the river that builds land is the Mississippi river. It has created what we now know as Southern Louisiana. The Mississippi River creates land by depositing sediment into the Gulf of Mexico and whenever it floods, sediment would be left behind which builds up land over time. However, although it takes a very long time to…

n 1534, Francis I of France sent Jacques Cartier on the first voyage to explore the coast of Newfoundland and the St. Lawrence River. He found New France by putting a cross on a shore. The French tried to establish several colonies throughout North America that failed, due to weather, disease, or conflict with other European powers. Cartier attempted to create the first European settlement in North America at Cap-Rouge in 1541 with 400 settlers but the settlement was abandoned the next year…