Serfdom

The Roman empire was the ancient world’s largest and most powerful empire. It reached its height in 117 C.E., encompassing nearly 2 million square miles and containing more than 50 million people. Connecting the vast empire were more than 250,000 miles of roads, 50,000 of which were paved. Roman engineers founded or improved more than 1,000 cities and towns. Rome itself was a magnificent example of cultural, technological and social superiority in its time. It was a great place to live in until…

Across the world the disparity between males and females is striking. According to data collected by Worldmeters, the population of Earth consist of 50.4% male and 49.6% female. Although the ratio between these two genders is almost identical, women are systematically mistreated and discriminated against thought the globe. While many of the disparities and inequalities occur in developing nations, there are developed western societies where women are still unable to attain the same level of…

The Athenian people have experienced numerous forms of government ranging from a constitutional oligarchy, monarchy to democracy over the course of their history. They transitioned from lowly slaves and serfs who were born into their casts, to a free people elected into office. In the best of times, they were given land and stature while in the worst, vengeance, banishment and war. The Athenian embracement of democracy over monarchy can be attributed to the tyranny experienced under the rule of…

The Crusades- “ History’s most successful failures ” During the time period of 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, the Muslim force expand massively and rapid around the continent of Europe, pluming the people of multiple nations including the Holy Land of Jerusalem into the worshipping of the religion of Muslim. During this time is when the Crusades were introduced and appear as the holy expeditions. The Crusades were destine to create a successful mark on history, which then over 100 years they…

With the new ideas of the Enlightenment being popularized, Europeans began to take different views that usually contrasted previous ways of thinking, including different takes on religion, open-mindedness and rejection of human rights, and exploring different ways of thinking about everything else. With the success and praise of these up-and-coming ideas, many others were inspired to learn about and come up with their own resulting in a plethora of new knowledge that modernized Europe to this…

In 1804, he implemented Code Napoleon, officially know as the civil code of 1804. This code provided for a single legal system for France, equality before the law and careers open to talent. It also granted freedom of religion, abolished serfdom and secularized the state. However, on the less liberal side of the spectrum, workers were denied collective bargaining (Negotiation between workers and their employers to determine wages, hours, rules, and working conditions.), trade unions were…

Children were and are still being put through dangerous and unhealthy conditions when working in fields and factories. They are missing an education and some workers are 4-5 years old. According to Child Labor, in the 1900, one in six children were employed full time, and more than 1,750,000 children were involved in child labor. Today the numbers are down but the conditions are still horrific for many children in the United States and many other countries. Some of the dangers children face in…

Miss Pinson English 4 9/19/14 Ivan the Terrible by- Zachary Chadwick Ivan the terrible was one of the most controversial rulers in Russia’s history. There is almost no writings about him that have survived over the years, therefore historians have been forced to go on rumors, diaries, etc. This biography will use this information in order to try and piece together his life from the golden age to the age of terror that he brought on in his later years. Early life- To start, Ivan was born to…

fought until they were granted certain liberties; personal freedom being one of them, meaning no town resident could be a serf, or serfs living in a town for one year were legally free (32). There started a chain reaction that led to the decline of serfdom-more towns meant a larger population, meaning people needed more land. Lords cleared more land for peasants to farm on, but it was harder to convince someone to become a serf, now that they could walk to the next town over and be…

The Age of Enlightenment lasted roughly from 1720-1790. It was a time when reason and logic were worshipped like gods. The core ideas of the Renaissance, humanism and the desire to improve society, collided and mixed with the Scientific Revolution’s need to discover and test truth by standards of reason and logic. At the heart of the Age of Enlightenment were a group of people known as philosophes. Philosophes were thinkers who firmly believed that the power of reason could be applied to all…