Ruler

desire to be seen as a supreme ruler and by that he flushed the money from his own state. “With [Henry’s] doctrinal waverings left, His return to war with France… cost outrageous sums; this led to other financial ventures, including loans and currency depreciation, which combined to fuel a Europeanwide inflation and to swell the royal debt. “Henry’s greed and lust for power violates the first rule of how to be a wise leader, according to Machiavelli: “Either a ruler is spending his own and his…

shuttlecock. The ruler is slanted when we stack up the ruler’s together. Because we cannot perfectly align the rulers on top of each other, it makes the method and the data inaccurate and not reliable. Improvements: If we used a motion sensor to start and stop the shuttlecock, it could have been more reliable. The results could be more accurate rather than by a human’s eye. Because we were using a soft ruler, we could have used a steel or metal ruler. By using a steel or metal ruler, to make…

The Sultanate rule is known for the destruction of hundreds of Hindu temples across northern and central India. The rulers persecuted Hindus and promoted the forced conversion of the local population to Islam. This period saw the establishment of a Hindu Kingdom, Vijayanagar Empire, in south India in 1336 by two Hindu brothers, Harihar and Bukka. It was an attempt to protect the Hindu culture from the invading Muslim armies from north India. In 1398, the Delhi Sultanate was invaded by Timur the…

political systems. In order to properly rule, a ruler must be able to understand his people, the needs of his people, and the world in which his people reside. A philosopher king, a ruler trained in philosophy, realizes this need. By spending his years learning the ideas of Plato and other philosophers before taking over a position of power, the philosopher king is prepared to base his decisions off of the truth instead of his bias or ignorant opinions. The ruler is given the opportunity to…

In the play The tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary we see how society is under Herod’s tyrant rule. The absence of a tyranny rule causes other characters to feel like they finally have a sense of freedom. Although, when the ruler comes back, everyone is in terror and fright. The character of Herod displays tyrannical traits, by being controlling and hubris towards his society. His absence throughout the play still has a confounding impact on the play and other characters. Herod’s nonappearance…

of 16 children, most notably, Joseph II, and Marie Antoinette, who both grew up to become major rulers. The archduchess of Austria came across many hardships and events that would slow down her reforms, but her power did not crumble. Whether it might be denying the ancient Salic Law, constant rivalry with Frederick the Great, or fighting for the land of Silesia, Maria Theresa proved to be a faithful ruler for her people, with some signs of early nationalistic views. She also ruled her nations to…

Socrates called this regime a "Timocracy or a Timarchy." But how will the system of aristocracy disintegrate into Timocracy, and how do they defer? Socrates believed that rulers of the just city will become ignorant in picking the next generation of rulers, and they would rely on their fallibility of sense-perception. The rulers of the just city will make grievous mistakes overtime, and after a period of time, some positions of power will be controlled by misguided…

scales were reformed to allow individuals to advance socially with talent and intelligence, by diminishing the significance of class. Socially, Confucius created 5 basic relationships. The first basic relationship being between the ruler and the subject, where the ruler is inferior and the subject is superior. The relationship between a father and a son, would be that the father would be in control because of his wisdom and his son would respect and abide by his father. Likewise the relationship…

Since the first revelation of a piece that was considered as an “artwork”, many styles have been developed throughout the centuries. Artworks have been engendered by different artists in sundry styles, time periods and places. When artists or theorists invents an incipient set of conceptions of an unknown style, it can now be utilized by anyone, sundry times. Once an artist engendered an artwork utilizing a concrete style, another artist can re-visit it as the reference to engender a different…

political order, all individuals need to hand over their will to a single point of ultimate authority’ (Field, 2015). Due to their beliefs on human nature, Hobbes and Machiavelli shared comparable principles with regards to the need of a sovereign ruler, and the requirement for a functioning supreme power in order to control the people. In the enlightenment period in which Hobbes wrote in his book the Leviathan about the human nature of people, he, similarly to Machiavelli, described that they…