Henry IV of France

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    Christine de Pisan was an important woman during the Middle Ages. She was a French scholar who was unlike other women. In that time, women had small roles in society and relied on their husbands or family members for everything they needed. However Christine was one of the few who made her own living and changed people 's opinions. She was the first feminist and supported equal education for everyone. Being born into nobility, she didn 't firsthand experience the troubles of lower class women,…

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    This conflict arose between Gregory and german Emperor Henry IV, where their differing opinions on who should choose local bishops clashed in the early 11th century. Pope Gregory was an advocate for more church authority and believed that he, and future popes, should have absolute say in certain spheres of…

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    to the two religions. Through defeat came destruction with the Catholics and Calvinist. It was later that the Saint Bartholomew occurred. This day created a war which claimed the lives of many people. Many people were exposed. In1625 King Christian IV took over the land and the Europeans gained power. The war lasted thirty years. After the war people were at peace with each other. The Scientific Revolution became about. This revolution created new ideas which brought to surface for many people.…

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    necessity, had become “Normanized”, but, over time, the Normans also became “Anglicized”, particularly after 1204 when King John’s ineptness lost the French part of Normandy to the King of France and the Norman nobles were forced to look more to their English properties. Increasingly out of touch with their properties in France and with the French court and culture in general, they soon began to look on themselves as English. Norman French began gradually to degenerate and atrophy. While some in…

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    The Black Plague Analysis

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    The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were cataclysmic times in Europe marked by a momentous amount of death and dissension. Europe faced The Black Plague, political problems and the Hundred Years war and the Ottoman War and finally crisis in the church. Each unique crisis required their own individual response such as setting up new laws, revolting, and turning away from the church. ADD MORE The Black Plague was brought on in Europe when merchant ships came from China. Along with their goods,…

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    Pablo Picasso was born October 25 1881, in Malaga, Spain; he died April 8 1973, at the age of 92 in Mougins, France. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. His father was Jose Ruiz Blasco, and his mother was Maria…

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    essfu Duryeand a his brother Frank. 1895 An Italian Inventor name Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio. He made the radio wireless. 1899 The Detroit Automobile Company released its first commercial automobile. It was a delivery wagon designed by Henry…

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    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 was…

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    :-) crippling Europe’s ability to pay off its war debts and damaging America industry 48.Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact significant? A. ? The nations involved agreed not to use threat of war against each other. 49.A primary reason for Henry Ford’s success in the automobile industry was that he C.:-) adopted a strategy of horizontal integration 50.The purpose of the Nineteenth Amendment was to D.:-) grant suffrage to women 51.The Scopes Trial illustrated the nation’s…

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    Emerson Fleming Mrs. Schroder English IV Honors 8 December 2016 Frankenstein: A Struggle Between the Created and the Creator Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is an incredibly rich work imbedded with countless themes and concepts. The plot of the novel consists of a scientist creating a monster he then abandons out of fear and the creature destroying his family as revenge. A particularly profound phenomenon is the power interplay between the different characters of the work. Though intriguing power…

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