Charles II of Spain

Catholic became king of Aragon. The power of the Cortes dwindled and the kings of Aragon had increasingly more power and control, growing closer and closer to an absolute monarchy. This change continued under Charles V and Philip II and in 1578, when Philip III became king of Spain, the governance of Spain became in truth an absolute monarchy.” (Supplement D) The Legislative branch created the laws, the Executive branch executed them and the Judicial body upheld them. The government lasted…

Velásquez for whom they made the voyage) to colonize the Aztec Empire, they sought to communicate with the inhabitants and spread their Christian faith. However, the end of 1521 saw the mighty Aztec Empire practically cease to exist, its emperor Montezuma II join the many victims of the conquest, and the survivors put under the rule of the Spanish. A variety of factors came into play regarding the Spanish’s ability to conquer this mighty empire, including the ability to communicate verbally,…

and grape products for grain. Since they were located on the coast, Greece had a strategic point for trade and cultural diffusion. Athens became a rich commercial center and Greeks had a money system. They had city-states with identities and cultures. They were considerably independent and were always competing with each other. Sparta was militaristic and agricultural while Athens was cultural, political, and commercial. In Sparta, women had more rights than in other areas. They had adult male…

ecclesiastical property and defined Christian doctrine. Despite the harsh legislation, he had grown a well developed support from the clergy who approved his desire to deepen the piety and morals of his Christian subjects. At his residence in Aachen Charles sought to build a chapel that would rival St Peter’s in Rome. He believed that a new Rome or Athens would rise in Aachen, not in terms of population, but in terms of bringing back the age of antiquity (Fichtenau pg 31)13. His cathedral, was…

left for Italy to work as a court painter for the next eight years. Through the span of these eight years he does many art works in Rome and in Spain. These eight years can be described as the most important in his career. Rubens…

Roman Governance and the Church of Rome: An Analysis of the Positive and Negative Effects of the Centralization of Power in the Papacy in the Sixth to the Ninth Centuries This historical study will define the positive and negative effects on the rise of the papacy throughout the sixth to the ninth centuries. The fall of the Roman Empire left a massive administrative void that was filled with the administrators that served under the Church to replace this imperial form of governance from Rome.…

The 17th Century was a glorious time for art, a time when Love with a capital L was being thrown around and cherished as the end-all be-all of what literature is about. To some extent, I do agree with this. Now, during this time, there were a plethora of male playwrights, poets, and “lovers.” There were hardly far and few between. This is something I find to be strange seeing as modern day art consumers are more or less women. This alone is the reason I decided to look into a female playwright…

the war could not be done without the courage and countless effort of hundreds of spies and operative doing the jobs to give the allied powers the edge in the conflict and to undermine the effort of the enemy. Many spies became known after World War II for their work against enemy forces, the majority of the spies never were discovered and will eventually become legends due to their fearless work. As I mentioned how movies give spies a false accusation, spies do the dirty work. Most of the time…

The Barbary pirates or corsairs, also known as the Ottoman corsairs, were pirates and privateers from North Africa who operated mainly from the ports of Algiers, Tunis, Sale and Tripoli. Of these states, Algiers was their strongest port of operation. The pirates frequented the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean. The Barbary pirates derive their name from the Berber tribe who inhabited these states, thereafter known as the Barbary states. It is also speculated that the West described these…

Europe. During the signing of the treaty, France Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany, the Netherlands and Italy became the first members of the Union. It was the result of eleven years of attempt to reconstruct the European continent after World War II. The treaty also gave priorities to the Coal and Steel communities, by creating the European Coal and Steel Community; (ECSC) which opened a market for those products to those who were part of the European Community.…