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    all of Christendom, including its rulers” thus no one could appoint him or anyone when God had already done so. The Investiture Controversy was born from this as the actions Pope Gregory VII took to fight this practice led him to conflict with King Henry IV of Germany. The Investiture Controversy “was one of the great conflicts between church and state in the High Middle Ages.” An agreement was settled upon in 1122 between the new pope of the time and the new king of Germany. This agreement…

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    Children always like to be the knight that will slay the dragon. They will imagine traveling to the mythical dragon’s lair and slaughter the dragon to be the most beloved and famous knight in all the land. The things they do not realize are that dragons never existed and knights did a lot more than save the fair maiden in the land. Knights would go on military expeditions, discuss politics, and bring order to the land. It took a lot to be a famous knight in the tough times of the middle ages.…

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    The French help the colonists cut off all escape and Cornwallis surrenders. The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783; it ceded territories belonging to Britain to France and Spain, and removed the authority of Britain from America. II. Articles of Confederation The Articles of Confederation granted power to the states instead of to a central government. Though Congress could represent the states in military deeds…

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    leading the Native Americans. He was leading the French. He was leading the Colonists. 3. Who said “Give me liberty or give me death.”? George Washington said this quote. Dwight D. Eisenhower said this quote. Donald Trump said this quote. Patrick Henry said this quote. 4. Who thought a government that didn’t give its…

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    Italy. The quote is about how the price doubled or more for everything that you bought during and after the plague. This definitely affected the the people since business flourished while the wealthy lords and nobles lost money. A law that King Edward III made in 1351 after the black plague, was that peasants could not make any more than they did before the outbreak. This lead peasant to become much poorer and start uprise later on, and this made the lords and nobles happy because they did not…

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    and rules for the people. In the same sense that Voltaire was in favor of England’s more structured governing system, he admired their methodic judiciary system. He compares the trial of Charles I in England to the malicious deaths of Emperor Henry VII, Henri III, and Henri IV. Voltaire favors England’s more structured approach in which an offender is defeated, taken prisoner, tried, and condemned instead of France’s past solutions involving poison, murder, and assassination plots. He also…

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    How did monarchs in England and France expand royal authority and lay the foundations for united nation-states? Monarchs in England and France struggled for power with the nobles and Church. The Black Death and Crusades as well as political and religious changes during the Middle Ages led to the expansion of royal authority and laid the foundations for united nation-states. The dominant force of the Middle Ages was feudalism. Feudal lords had control over the land and the serfs who were…

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    In historical book Redcoats and Rebels, Christopher Hibbert takes a well-known story of the American Revolution, which is mostly told as a heroic story from the American perspective, and retells it from a perspective of British loyalists incorporating a lot of information from various sources. Although the book “might be useful to students of history as an introduction to historical works the author used for writing it, which are included in bibliography” (p xi), Mr. Hibbert wanted it to be…

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    laws in an effort to break America from British rule. In 1779, Franklin, an elderly man of seventy-three traveled across the Atlantic from America to France to seek aid and assistance from France in an effort to break from the British empirical rule over America. Franklin’s original goal of money and aid to America changed during his time in France upon receiving letters from American prisoners of war, ill-treated and dying in British prisons. The American prisoner’s outlook on life become…

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    that wandered into the monster world, back through her door. However, during their adventure, they uncover a conspiracy being hatched by Monsters Inc’s chairman, Henry J. Waternoose III, along with our protagonist’s arch enemy Randall, to use a torturing machine to forcefully kidnap then extract the children’s scream (Docter et al.). III. Overview of the Score The score composed by Randy Newman is completely original, and he utilised a mix variety of a small band and orchestras to further…

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