Council of Europe

century, that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and preceded the Early Modern Era. By the turn of the 4th century, the Roman Empire legalized Christianity leading to its widespread across Europe. It did not take long for the Church to become a powerful force over Medieval Europe as the Pope acquired a vast amount of power becoming…

established after WWII in 1957, buy the agreements of the Treaty of Rome. The Treaty of Rome focused on economic co-operations with European countries, but also set out a wider political vision of a closer union and eliminates the barriers that divided 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…

While focusing on the war ramifications at home and across Europe, the YWCA was also encouraging and aiding women in their desire to aid the war effort. Women moving from farms to cities to work in factories and offices needed guidance and training. The iconic Rosie the Riveter stemmed from the YWCA work program. (Jensen, 2014) In some countries, especially in Eastern Europe, YWCAs were censored or disbanded. Throughout occupied Europe, the women of the YWCA worked relentlessly to construct…

In the late 1400s, Columbus traveled from Europe and discovered North America. This discovery led to the start of the cultural exchange between the "New World" and the “Old World”. The cultural exchange is the trade of goods, people, and ideas. This transatlantic exchange had many long-lasting positive and negative effects, including trade, intrusion, and disease. Firstly, the transatlantic trade between Europe and North America had a huge effect on trade. Antoniio Vasquez de Espinoza, a…

have a number of kingdoms, empires, caliphates and chiefdoms, local land lord, among others before the arrival of European colonialism in western Africa. Those kingdoms and empires had traded with outside the world independently particularly with Europe. This extreme diversity in terms of culture, tradition, norm and religion resulted to have a complex system of governance (Musa and Hassan, 2014). The Kanem-Borno Empire (with known history of more than a thousand years), the City-States of…

The ancient native american city of Cahokia was unknown to me prior to reading this article. What surprised me while reading was the fact that their leader “Great Sun” was a tyrannical leader when I initially thought that most indian tribes had councils or elder in charge. The misconceptions that Europeans had about the North American Continent was the thinking that it was in a location closer to Asia and India, hence the Europeans calling the Native Americans the term “Indians.” Another…

predict that the world will experience an increase in individual empowerment, a diffusion of power, changes in demographic patterns, and increased global connections over resources like food, water, and energy. According to the National Intelligence Council, individual empowerment will be one of the most influential megatrends impacting the future world.…

to The Council of Trent The Council of Trent, as Paolo Sarpi recalled in his Istoria del Concilio Tridentino, described the event as the “Iliad of our time” due its long and climatic History. The Council’s Purpose as stated in the bull Laetre Jerusalem, was to “eliminate religious discord and to reform the Christian people.” However it is often discussed how much the Protestant concerns were ignored and overlooked in favor of making very little change in the Church of Rome. The Council…

H. Edward Pruitt starts 100 Years of Theological Convergence: Edinburgh 1910 to Lausanne 2010 with an introduction. In this introduction, he starts off with his thesis; “This thesis argues that a theological convergence developed out of the ecumenism that existed within the Edinburgh 1910 Global Missions Conference, and that this ecumenism grew from Edinburg 1910 until the Lausanne Movement that began in 1974, at which point it began to flourish” (Pruitt 5). He then defines some terms and lists…

participants in the Roman economy. This group of people was called the plebeians, which constituted a new political faction that would oppose the dominance of the Patricians in the Senate. During this time, the Plebeians would form their own political council in order to countermand the citizenship of the Patricians. The Concilium Plebis was soon formed as a result of the “conflict of orders” that would challenge the rights of citizenship for Roman workers and lower level merchant classes. This…