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    Revolutionary War, would the United States ever be formed? History is crowded with what if’s, and it is termed in contemporary history as Alternative history, and is the theme in many different fictional novels, such as The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick. For example, one could examine the english reformation. In January of 1511 Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a son, Prince Henry. Unfortunately he died unexpectedly after 52 days. Henry VII would then become fixated on a male heir to…

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    the independence they’d yearned for, thus establishing a republic. “The Habsburgs reached the zenith of power before the end of the 16th century: the duchy of Milan, annexed by Charles V in 1535, was assigned by his son, the future Philip II of Spain, in 1540; Philip II, conquered Portugal in 1580; and the Spanish dominions in America were over expanding. There were, however, three faults” as John Graham Royde-Smith said. This paper is meant to explain how the Habsburgs fell through their…

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    (Unofficial Royalty 2015). The Netherlands was not in a state of economic struggle during her reign as queen. With money circulating it was easier to please the country. “Mary Tudor inherited approximately [pounds]185,000 in debt from her half-brother Edward VI” and struggled during her entire reign to make up for that (Fabel 1997). This set her up for a short rule of economic instability which did not help with popularity. This may have made her subjects question her economic decisions and…

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    the same time, showing her going scot-free would be a travesty of justice. Hence, Marlowe chooses the middle-path; Edward III puts Isabella to trial with a stern disposition. The order he passes on his mother in the final scene of the play (Act V Sc. vi) is worth quoting in…

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    because her parents were very busy most of the time. She was really not even supposed to be crowned Queen but because of all the unexpected deaths in her family, her father became King George VI so she was next in line for the throne. She was crowned on June 2, 1953 when she was 25 years old. She married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on November 20, 1947 and she had four children and eight grandchildren. She is queen of United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and she is also queen of…

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    Queen Elizabeth I, better known as the Virgin Queen, was England’s longest reigning monarch. She claimed the throne at the age of twenty-five and she ruled for forty-four years, until her death. Jessica Creton, from The Elizabeth Files, states, “A woman being in charge of England was not seen as a good thing, [but] she has changed this vision forever.” So the question stands, how did this extraordinary woman, of the sixteenth century, do it? Elizabeth I of England was born on September 7, 1533,…

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    was ratified by the original five nations around 1451 near modern day Victor, New York. In 1933 Congress passed Concurrent Resolution 331, revealing that the American Constitution was influenced by the Iroquois Constitution. King Philip’s War King Philip 's War was an armed war between Native Americans and colonists.…

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    Queen Elizabeth The princess Elizabeth was born at Greenwich in September 7th, 1533 and was crowned Queen Elizabeth I of England in January 1559 . Her parents were King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She was one of greatest queen in England, a bright star who sparkled both the nation and the world. The achievement of Queen Elizabeth has lasted nearly four centuries and it’s easy to see why. She reigned for 45 tumultuous year, the Spanish Armada was defeated by her ships in her time. The fleet was…

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    Kenneth Taylor History 2111 September 22, 2015 The most significant event in history is the discovery of the New World in 1492. Europeans came over to the Americas to explore and expand. Spain started to conquer all over Mesoamerica, soon after France and England tried to establish colonies. English colonies struggled at first, but then became sufficient. Causing a huge change for the Native Americans living in the land. Both the colonist and natives in the New World experienced life-changing…

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    Origin and Routes of Dissemination Towards the end of the 1330s, a coccobacillus called Yersinia Pestis, which slumbered for centuries in the blood of rats underwent a deadly exodus. The rats were immune to the bacteria in their bloodstream, but not the fleas that fed on their blood. A toxin produced by Yersinia Pestis blocked the abdomen of the flea thus inhibiting it from swallowing the blood it sucked out of the rat. Then, when a flea bit a human, it would deposit the blood from the…

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