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    The Similarities and Differences of 17th Century Japan and Europe (1500 to 1700) Japan‚ from 1500 to almost 1700‚ was undergoing a major transformation. The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola and approved by Pope Paul III as a religious order within the Catholic Church in 1540. Francis Xavier was the first Jesuit sent to preach religion outside of Europe. Three Portuguese traders whose ship was blown to Japan in 1542 or 1543 are the first

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    The 18th century in Europe was a dynamic center for changes in daily life. The prior centuries saw the decline in the social status of women and Renaissance ideals hoping to keep them in the home. It also was witness to the church’s dominion in education and the social gap between the privileged children who could afford an education and the mainly illiterate masses. The denial that childhood was a distinct period in a person’s life‚ the lack of hands-on parenting and concern for children‚ and the

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    Relations between women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Theme: Relations between women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Thesis: Relationships between women in the nineteenth century America created a web of love and support for women. Mothers and daughters‚ sisters and friends from childhood formed emotional and sometimes physical bonds that lasted lifetimes. These ties were acknowledged and easily accepted in their societies. Many women survived unthinkable hardships such as geographical isolation

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    Moral Absolutism a) Explain what is meant by Moral Absolutism. (25) Moral absolutism is an ethical theory which believes that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged‚ and that certain actions are either right or wrong. Moral absolutists might‚ for example‚ judge slavery‚ war‚ dictatorship‚ the death penalty‚ or child abuse to be absolutely immoral regardless of the situations or beliefs of a culture that engages in these practices. Moral absolutism adopts the theory

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    DBQ 5: Absolutism In a rule using suppression‚ backed up by the claim to divine authority‚ an absolute monarchy embodies the omnipotent government reign. Such power was given solely to the head of the state without any constituted restraints. During the Reformation up to the seventeenth century‚ Europe’s social system started to have conflict as to whether absolute power should be appointed to the king. The king’s subjects‚ mostly nobles‚ supported their kings right to absolute power because they

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    Puritanism had a huge impact on the history of America and on religion in the 17th century. Puritanism had originally started as a movement against the church of England during the 16th century. The Puritans escaped religious confines and went to the New World. There they settled mostly in New England. Their beliefs had a big influence on how religion was handled in the colonies. According to history.com it explained how the Puritans came to be colonists in the New World‚ “Under siege from church

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    During the eighteenth century child labor was on the rise as an international epidemic. The change from agricultural life to urban life due to the industrial revolution assuaged the problem. The child life went from working all day on farms at a house to working all day at a factory with machines and abusive bosses. This led to catrophic consequences that forced the government to regulate it. The government was forced due to different people’s action and stories. There were poems alerting the public

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    intellectual movement initiated by French philosophes that encouraged the common people of the time to analyse and reason for themselves‚ rather than accept traditional ideas. This brought about the development of the individual person in eighteenth century France‚ causing them to question the authority of people such as divine ruler or religious leader. Man began to perceive daily life through his own eyes rather than viewing it through an authoritative figure because of the Enlightenment. These ideas

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    Absolutism and Constitutionalism differ in the structure of authority in their theoretical governments‚ with Absolutism giving the government power over the people‚ and Constitutionalism limiting the government’s power and‚ in turn‚ empowering the people. This difference causes Absolutism to cause people to work for their government‚ and Constitutionalism to cause government to work for its people. Absolutism posited that government should have complete power over its citizens. James I of England

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    In the middle of the 20th century‚ a new generation of historians began to take another look at the beginnings of the American experience. They spent decades exploring all of the original documents relating to the establishment of colonies in America. Their research revealed that our 19th and 20th century ideas and beliefs about races did not in fact exist in the 17th century. Race originated as a folk idea and ideology about human differences; it was a social invention‚ not a product of science

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