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    Urgains G Vilsaint The trading of Guns, the Protestant Reformation, and the Ming Dynasty changed the world positively and negatively. Without these events, the face of the world would not have been the same. Since the 1450’s to today, one of the main things that has changes and shaped the world is the trade of guns and gun powder. Guns are good because they help Countries take over territories. Hernando Cortez used guns on his travelled and with the help of horses, diseases and guns he was…

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    final straw came when More refused to swear to Henry's Act of Succession and the Oath of Supremacy. This amounted to More essentially refusing to accept the king as head of the Church of England, which More believed would disparage the power of the pope. More was sent to the Tower of London on April 17, 1534, and was found guilty of treason. Thomas More was beheaded on July 6, 1535. He left behind the final words: "The king's good servant, but God's first." More was beatified in 1886 and…

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    by ending possible destructive civil war acts (“Reformation”). Henry the VIII wanted to divorce his first wife because he kept having girls, and the problem with that is he wanted to have a boy to eir the throne after his death(“Reformation”). The pope did not allow Henry the VIII to divorce his wife because it was against the christian law(“Reformation”). Henry the VIII made his own religion called the Anglican religion(“Reformation”). In Henry’s religion you were allowed to be divorced and go…

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    that the marriage was annulled by the king. Thomas More didn’t agree with this because he didn’t think that Parliament had the jurisdiction over the church. Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy in 1534 which gave authority to the king and not the Pope, making Henry VIII the head of the church and the ability to get an annulment. Being Catholic had a great influence on his decision, and God came first. He strongly believed that he would be, “sent to hell for not following his conscience.” Given…

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    In the Middle Ages, there was a man named Thomas A’ Becket, who rose to great power under the rule of his friend King Henry II. Henry appointed Thomas in order to gain the upper hand in disputes with the Pope and Catholic Church. Thomas would go against Henry which infuriated him. Henry accidentally ordered for Thomas to be killed, leading to the corruption of the Catholic Church and Thomas becoming a martyr. In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, a group of people embark on a pilgrimage…

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    Moral Absolutism

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    Although Shaw portrays the institution of the Catholic Church as deeply sexist he is careful to clarify that the ideology is not, rather it is through the manipulation religious dogma that women can justify their want for freedom and achieve liberation as Joan briefly did. Shaw feels no desire to criticize the Catholic faith; rather he criticizes the corrupt institution of the Catholic Church. Joan presents a version of the Catholic Church free from sexism and political affiliation. Joan is what…

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    Enter The Pope Analysis

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    Crazy sentiments of this sort are hard to oust, particularly with the GOP on a disgustingly intense warpath to disgrace everybody with a pushed degree as lying traitors and what's more apportioned hacks. Enter the Pope. Honestly, His Holiness wasn't out there measuring ice sheets for this report and those adroit pros really framed the thing, yet irrefutably this is not precisely the same as absolutely scholarly work. It will vitality to perceive how, if by any techniques…

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    In the 14th and early 15th century, rulers in Europe were undertaking the task of re-establishing the power of the monarch after its age of weakness in the Middle Ages. The age that led up to the Renaissance was a constant struggle for the monarchs. They depended on councils of nobles and the church for financial and military support, while the nobility and church were constantly searching for more power. This contained the monarch’s ability to accomplish goals for their nation without the…

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    The Condemnation of Galileo It is possible to say the condemnation of Galileo was something that was miscalculated. I say this because it seems as though there was really no law for what he had done at the time, but because scince and theology was not separated no one really knew what to do. I thought about Jesus, when the Jews set out to kill Him because they really could not handle his teaching and who He claimed to be. They took him and waited until after the Passover to kill Him because…

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    Middle ages Europe vs medieval japan During the middle ages (476 CE – 14th century) of Europe a feudal system was being created, likewise during the same time in medieval japan a similar feudal system was developing. These two feudal systems were almost identical in the social hierarchy and in jobs however there were differences nether less. Some of the similarities though wold be how similar their feudal pyramid worked. This pyramid consisted of the highest member of the society (king or…

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