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    of culture. Painters included El Greco and Velazquez. Cervantes wrote the timeless novel Don Quixote de la Mancha about a man longing for a return to the days of chivalry. Then events in Europe reflected a new era in culture called the Age of Enlightenment‚ which stressed liberty‚ reason‚ and justice. Europe enjoyed a new gold age of culture; audiences in London enjoyed the plays of Shakespeare. Louis XIV of France‚ sponsored a variety of artists‚ creating the most glamourous court in Europe. Religion

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    towards the glory of their church. However‚ the settlers practiced not one but diverse religions before the 18th century and the issue of religious freedom depended largely on the political and religious stance of the region in which they lived. Before 1700‚ the British North American colonies differed on the extent of religious freedom in the New world. There were three regional orders‚ New England‚ Middle colonies and the South within the colonial empire. Most of the settlers in these colonies were

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    hunt down vocabulary signs to catch answers‚ or specialists may analyze the issues and trends on their fields. The utilization of diversions and reenactments for instructive purposes might be followed to the utilization of war recreations in the 1600’s. The reason for existing was to enhance the key arranging of armed forces and naval forces. Since the 1800’s‚ they have served as a part in the military arranging of real world forces. In the 1950’s‚ political–military reproductions of emergencies

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    In the late 1700s‚ there were defined gender lines and each sex was held to certain standards set by the society. Men were the source of everything for a family ranging from the daily household income to the caring of the estate while women just had to be respectably quiet and take care of their families at home. These social codes were not written but instead were reflected in laws made and shared collectively between males and females alike and established a base idea for the entire society to

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    Enlightenment DBQ Historical Context The discoveries made in science during the 1500s and 1600s led European thinkers to raise questions about the conditions of human life itself. Many of the thinkers of the European Enlightenment moved away from medieval thinking toward more modern thoughts regarding government and the role of women in society. Document 1 Second Treatise on Government - John Locke . Political power is that power‚ which every man having in the state of nature‚ has given

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    Kalpana Sapkota Professor Dr. Bodily English 2327-73002 17‚ March‚ 2017 The influence of writers in the American Enlightenment The American enlightenment was a philosophical movement that began in the early 1700 and ended in the 1810s. During this period‚ the American colonies went through the change in thought. American Enlightenment applied scientific reasoning to politics‚ Science and religion. Society begins to reject the many of the older thought and writer started to write papers with new

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    The ‘Black Legend’ of the Spanish conquest in the America’s stems from the backlash against the Spanish in the late 1500’s early 1600’s. Following the disaster of the Spanish Armada crushing Spain as a maritime power and the alliance of Portugal with England‚ it was convenient to use the reputation of cruelty and ruthlessness to motivate people to fight against them and to justify colonization methods. While the vilification of Spain as an entity in Europe has existed for centuries‚ with the Spanish

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    Baroque  Music   (ca.  1600-­‐1750)   IV! DEADLINE TODAY! DEADLINE TODAY! Henry  Purcell.  “When  I  am  laid”  from  Dido  and  Aeneas.   (also  known  as  Dido’s  Lament)(1689)   hDp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaLviMEJls&feature=related  (starRng  1:00)   Listen:     Ground  bass  -­‐  repeaRng  bass  line  used  throughout  a  work‚   oUen  with  a  disRnct  rhythmic  paDern

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    the Renaissance‚ and leading up to the Reformation‚ Scientific Revolution‚ and Enlightenment periods‚ the focus switches. The individual was finally in the picture. This change begins in the 1300s with the start of the Renaissance. The Europeans

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    The Renaissance was a period of European history‚ considered by modern scholars as that between 1300 and 1600. Many dramatic changes happend during the Renaissance. The Renaissance was a period of new inventions and beliefs. The Renaissance was drastically different from the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages the church held most of the power and it’s economy was agriculturaly based. Exploration and learning was almost put to a stop. During the Renaissance society was transformed into a

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