108). A local clergyman wrote and published an entire pamphlet that More’s school was the downfall of all good things. He continued to say that with the school closing‚ Miss More was not the evangelical radical that everyone thought she was. She did not stand up to the local authorities. The local clergyman believed “… More should have ‘defended her own cause’ and ‘that her apologists‚ with more zeal than judgement‚ have hurt her…” (Demers 107). This was later found to be untrue. Others believed
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is known as the Dark Ages. During the Fourteenth Century‚ many city-states in Italy – such as Genoa‚ Milan‚ Pisa‚ and Florence – began to prosper as they had become the centers of trade in Europe‚ transforming Italy into Europe’s premier center of culture. In the Sixteenth Century‚ trade routes shifted away from the Mediterranean and the Catholic Church lost its influence over much of Northern Europe. As a result‚ city-states in Europe became vulnerable to conquest by their enemies. Encouraged by
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THE PERSIAN WAR The Persians and the Greeks were at war with each other in the Persian war. It started when the Ionians revolt against the Persians and asked Greek to save them. The wars were Marathon‚ Thermopylae‚ Salamis‚ and Plataea. The battle of Marathon was the first war. The Greeks won the war against the Persians. In the war the Persians thought they could sneak attack Athens but the Greeks were waiting for them the whole time. The battle of Thermopylae was the second war. The Persians
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to two groups with four-part harmonies that would sing at different times‚ however they would eventually meet at a certain point and have eight voices on different notes. Willaert is also one of the first recorded composers to write for pieces that did not involve singing‚ but were for instruments only (Encyclopædia Britannica‚ 2016). Another great musical achievement of his was within his madrigals. Madrigals are a short poem in fixed form. When sung‚ they are a secular piece of music that is polyphonic
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that assist in defining the atom. There could have been numerous ways for Dalton to disarray the theories‚ and yet he did not.
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From 1100 B.C.E - 750 B.C.E.‚ the Greeks suffered through a period of time during which the population declined and food production dropped. Historians refer to this period in history as the Dark Age. The Dark Age was very grim for the Greeks‚ but numerous developments managed to emerge out of this period. In fact‚ near the end of the Dark Age‚ one of the greatest poets of all time began his work. His name was Homer. Throughout Greek history‚ we can see the tremendous impact that Homer and his ideas
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Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher‚ known for his view and use of capitalism. Smith helped spread the ideology of privatization and free market‚ and is often credited on creating modern economics. Smith opposed government use and regulation in trade and consumption‚ arguing it was only a producer and consumers business. Smith lived in an era of mercantilism‚ and found it useless and unhelpful for trade‚ and illogical for only benefitting two countries. Smith found specialization key; the
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The thinkers of the Enlightenment‚ influenced by the scientific revolutions of the previous century‚ believed in shedding the light of science and reason on the world in order to question traditional ideas and ways of doing things. The scientific revolution gave the impression that the universe behaved according to universal and unchanging laws. This provided a model for looking rationally on human institutions as well as nature. Denis Diderot should always be remembered as one of the great
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Antoine Lavoisier‚ deemed the father of modern chemistry‚ was born August 26‚ 1743 in Paris‚ France‚ but he did not pursue his love for science as a career until after he received a bachelor’s degree in law and obtained a license to practice law in 1764. Lavoisier always had a strong interest in the sciences‚ but was encouraged by his father to consider it only a hobby. However‚ in 1764‚ the same year he decided against practicing law‚ his first scientific paper was published‚ and he was elected
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The Great Depression in the United States caused many to die of starvation‚ as they did not have money for food and because of the dust bowl. After the end of the Great Depression‚ the economy reformed and the United States was able to feed the hungry mouths across the country. However‚ less economically stable countries struggled to improve their agricultural techniques and had very little success in feeding the hungry. An agricultural scientist named Norman Borlaug‚ helped reduce the growing problems
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