together. Modern French masculine and feminine words are also generally derived from Latin. Modern French was influenced by many factors. The Spread of French The French language spread throughout the world in many ways. In 771‚ Frankish monarch Charlemagne employed scholars to write and teach Latin. After he died‚ his three sons had a civil war ending with two sons (Louis the German and Charles the Bald) signed a defensive pact against brother Lothain. This is the earliest surviving document written
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During the Middle Ages people devoted their lives to this‚ they died for this‚ it united them‚ this great force that had such a great impact on the people of the Medieval time was religion. Religion was very important during the Middle Ages and had a huge impact on the Medieval Europe. The church was was prominent almost everywhere you looked and stories of the religion were constantly being told and shared. People renounced their whole lives to the church‚ people were so devoted to the faith that
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Previously‚ religious tolerance seemed to be increasing. In the middle ages it decreased exponentially. When at war‚ the king Charlemagne would make the people he captured turn to christianity or die (Class Lesson). Similarly four crusades were made by these people in order to retake the holy land that only led many negative effects. The crusade was called for by Pope Urban the Second
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Intro Christianity and Islam both developed in the same geographic place. They developed in west Asia. They were both able to create traditions from these regions especially from the Jewish people. Christianity was the first to be developed. It was inspired by the life and death of a prophet named Jesus. According to Christian belief his death and resurrection became a mythic center of the religion. This was then symbolized as eternal life. Years later the Muslim religion was created by the prophet
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Bernard Hamilton. Religion in the Medieval West. Routledge‚ Chapman and Hall Inc.‚ 1986. 216 pp. The main ideals and values that Medieval people held widely came from their understanding of the Church and their place in the world. Hamilton takes a meticulous comb through several topics to help the reader understand how the formation of the early Medieval church was paramount to how the rest of the age played out. Without the basics set down by temporal authority there would have been no west to
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1st‚ 2013 Swedish Capitalism How an experiment in new economic policy‚ made Sweden a global power. “They might not like to admit it‚ but Europeans don’t mind a bit of capitalism‚” says the author of a 2010 article in The Economist titled‚ “Charlemagne: Europe’s dark secret.”1 While France and some of its neighbors may give off an image of‚ “…contempt for free enterprise ‚” Sweden has gone in an opposite direction. Swedish‚ free market education system‚ budget reform‚ and de-regulation of the
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The Middle Ages Test Choose the best response for the following questions. 1. The emperor Justinian’s most important achievement was the codification of Roman law into The Body of Civil Law which- a. Became the basis of Christianity b. Caused the dissolution of the Roman Empire c. Became the basis for much of the legal system of Europe d. Created the legal foundation of the Roman Empire 2. The Crusades were a series of nine military expeditions that began in 1095 and ended in 1291. The goal
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The Cheetah I’m going to talk to you about the Cheetah‚ Where it lives‚ how it hunts‚ how the grass helps the cheetah‚ mating‚ and what you can do to help the endangered species. The Cheetah (Acinonyx Jubatus) is the fastest land mammal on earth‚ capable of speeds of 60-70 miles per hour. Cheetahs live 12 years (17 in captivity) and mature at 20-23 months of age. They are highly territorial. A typical adult cheetah weighs between 80 and 140 pounds and eats about 6 pounds of meat per day. They rarely
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Imagine living in a turbulent world‚ where people lived their day to day lives praying that they would see the next sunrise. That was life for villagers that lived during the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans‚ as well as during the medieval period when Germanic tribes ruled Europe. To help them get through their very insecure days‚ people would tell oral stories of great heroes‚ like those of Achilles‚ Aeneas‚ and Roland. Achilles was a Greek war hero who fights in the Trojan War‚ a ten year
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History of Cleansing Soaps Early History The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in Ancient Babylon. In the reign of Nabonidus (556–539 BCE) a recipe for soap consisted of uhulu [ashes]‚ cypress [oil] and sesame [seed oil] "for washing the stones for the servant girls". A formula for soap consisting of water alkali‚ and cassia oil was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC. The Ebers papyrus (Egypt‚ 1550 BC) indicates
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