Palace at Knossos (Grete) CA‚ 1700-1400‚ Greece. The Knossos palace was first built around 2000 BC‚ and reflected the grandeur of Minoan civilization. The Palace spread over six acres of land with heights reaching four stories. It was constructed in a labyrinth‚ maze-like pattern and about 100‚000 people lived there. The walls of the Palace where fill with beautiful and colorful friezes and frescoes‚ figures and paintings on plaster‚ which depict life from this era. Throughout the Minoan Period
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Grigory Rasputin Grigory Rasputin was born in Siberia‚ in about 1869. He had a hard life growing up as peasant who spent most of his young life working on a farm. Later on in his young life‚ he had been close with his older brother Dimitri. One day then had found a good spot to swim in the Tura River. Dimitri had fallen in first and the water pulled him deeper. Grigory then jumped in and tried to save his brother. Then along the river‚ a farmer had seen then and tried to save them. Grigory had survived
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Title of Building: Dancing House Name of Architect: Frank Gehry Date Completed: 1996 Illustration of Work:  Frank Gehry. Dancing House. Prague‚ Czech Republic. http://www.columbia.edu/~beecher/prague/Dancing_House/0600/dancing_building_1.html. Part 1: Description of This Building Dancing House by Frank Gehry‚ was a building that was started in 1992 and was finished in 1996. The building obviously resembling a couple dancing‚ was first named after Fred Astair and Ginger Rodgers
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Tyler Ekroth Mr. Politelli Western Civ Pd 7 30 September 2012 Was Louis XIV an effective ruler? Want an effective leader? Then Louis XIV would not be a great choice. I believe he is an ineffective leader because of a few reasons; one‚ he lost all four wars that he placed wages on‚ leading France to bankruptcy. Two‚ he failed at his goal of becoming the master of Europe. And third‚ because protestants would not convert to Catholicism‚ he threatened to kick them out if they didn’t convert or
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.Issiah Jackson 1-17-13 Absolute Rulers Essay Hon World History Louis XIV‚ Peter the Great‚ and Tokugawa Ieyasu all considered their own power and strengthened their states in many different ways but their actions were all similar. They united their states‚ introduced reforms and assessed their power and the effect that they could have on others. Although their techniques were different‚ the ways these monarchs ruled their states show great similarities. Unity is one of the many things
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Bryan Wetzel Professor Raskin HUM 2234 5 April 2013 Roles and Religion It has been said that a nation is only as strong as its weakest link; therefore to rise above travesty a nation must revolutionize roles of power and distribute societal roles according to era rather than practice. In contrast to not follow suit‚ strong leaders must learn from predecessors mistakes and success in conjunction towards a more successful future. During the late 1600’s King Louis XIV had great influence for many
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Baroque one big misshapen pearl STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB HISTORICAL NOTE Baroque art falls into the period of Counter-Reformation led by the Catholic church against the Protestants. Much of the Baroque art‚ especially in Italy‚ reflects reaction to Mannerism‚ but also the social turmoil of the time. According to the Council of Trent and the Catholic church artworks should be a clear‚ intelligible subject realistically interpreted in order to stimulate piety. This was part of the reason
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"The Fronde" The Fronde was a period of uncertainty in France. A time in which a newly crowned king of just ten years old at the time. A young king named Louis XIV was chased by the upper middle class and the nobility and treated as prisoners. These two social groups required some change in their government. They desired less powering the hand of the king and more toward the people’s hands. However‚ everyone knows that this contradicts what Louis XIV desired for France; an absolute monarchy. One
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People rarely think of saintly actions when monarchy is mentioned. After all‚ most of the famous kings are famous for their lack of virtue rather than their piety. In this regard‚ King St. Louis IX of France is an exception. This king lived a pious life and has over 65 miracles attributed to his prayerful intercession after his death. Being the only French monarch to receive the title of saint‚ the rift between Louis and an average king is quite a large one. King St. Louis IX became King of France
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Louis XIV‚ King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715‚ had a love for the arts and a discipline for military and government actions. Due to the king’s eager enjoyment for the arts‚ the countries economics suffered greatly while the artists‚ architects‚ composers and choreographers flourished greatly monetarily.When Louis XIV had complete power and no longer ruled under a prime minister‚ in 1661‚ the military of France was now the leading power in Europe. “A weaker man‚ one less sure of his
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