Christians have faced persecutions since the very beginning of the Catholic Church. Until the Edict of Milan‚ in 313 AD‚ Christians were persecuted by their local authorities and the local Jews. The “secret meetings” held by Christians raised suspicions of the Jews and posed a threat to the Roman Empire. Emperor Nero is known for his extremely violent persecutions and setting fire to the center of Rome‚ deflecting the blame onto the innocent Christians. The line of emperors after Nero also took
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Sources of Roman law Archaic Period Custom A law that was not written down. The cumstoms were so firmly established that they had acquired obligatiory force. The recognition of a custom was however not an exact science and jurists debated whether the custom could be called a law or a binding. Roman law was almost entirely customary in origin. Royal decrees The decree of the Kings had a direct binding force as law. Republic The twelve tables 451 BC Ten men were appointed to study
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decisions and choices were influenced by his inexperience in leadership. His forceful style leads him straight to disaster which results in losing his son and wife. This disaster was a direct result of his decision to kill Antigone for disobeying his edict regarding the forbidden burial of her brother‚ Polyneices. He believed his rules were superior‚ even to those unwritten statues of the God ’s which Antigone was committed. In his attempts to justify himself to the other characters‚ he used rational
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Brief History of Nepal The history of Nepal (नेपालको इतिहास) is characterized by its isolated position in the Himalayas and its two dominant neighbors‚ India and China. Due to the arrival of disparate settler groups from outside through the ages‚ it is now a multi-ethnic‚ multi-cultural‚ multi-lingual country. Its population is predominantly Hindu with significant presence of Buddhists‚ who were in majority at one time in the past. Nepal was split in three kingdoms from the 15th to 18th century
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the respective god and goddess for both nation In India during the rule of the Buddhist ruler Ashoka‚ the Great Stupa of Sanchi was commissioned. The Great Stupa was considered to be one of the greatest monasteries patriotisms to Buddhism. Even though it can be dated back to Ashoka’s reign‚ its consists of many buildings and parts that was made overtime and well beyond the time period of Ashoka. The dome of the stupa is roughly fifty feet high and is filled with earth and rubble. The stupa
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blinds himself. All along‚ Oedipus was the one without the ability to see things as they really were. Creon recognizes his flaws and in doing so‚ he reaches a greater level of understanding. Creon suffers because he defied the God’s‚ by issuing his edict. Antigone never reaches a level of understanding between her pride and love‚ Simply because her pride was not the cause of any immoral events. Although‚ Antigone does reveal the character flaws which Creon possessed. She brought out his insecurities
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seeking Guru to find enlightenment. Asoka took leadership of the Mauryan Empire in 268 B.C. All those things show that he was an enlightened ruler. On the other hand he was defiantly not a ruthless conqueror because he went to seek Buddha‚ the Asokan edicts‚ and cared about the misfortunate. Asoka was converted to Buddhism as a result of the Kalinga war. According to tradition he became a monk‚ made huge gifts to the Buddhists and undertook pilgrimages to the Buddhist shrines. Asoka set a very high
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concerned industries/entrepreneurs/ project developers. A 500cum biogas generation per day capacity BGFP project for generation‚ purification/enrichment‚ bottling of biogas has sanctioned by the MNRE with Rs. 50 lakh CFA during the year 2009-10 to Ashoka Biogreen Pvt. Ltd. at vill.- Talwade‚ Dist. – Nasik (Maharashtra).
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SPOTLIGHT CAN ENTREPRENEURS SAVE THE WORLD? Spotlight ARTWORK Josh Keyes‚ Burst I‚ 2009 acrylic on panel‚ 30" x 80" A New Alliance 56 Harvard Business Review September 2010 HBR.ORG Bill Drayton is the CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public‚ a global organization with headquarters in Arlington‚ Virginia. Valeria Budinich is the founder and chief entrepreneur of Ashoka’s Full Economic Citizenship Initiative. Working together‚ corporations and social entrepreneurs can reshape
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French Wars of Religion: Result of a weak monarchy‚ fragile peace agreements‚ and the battle of social worlds The reason for the length of the French wars of religion was attributed to the power vacuum that opened up during the reign of the minor Charles IX‚ as the Catholic Guises battled for power between the Protestant factions‚ the Bourbons and the Chatillons. Because the king’s vulnerable regent‚ Catherine de’ Medici wanted to keep the peace in order to protect her son’s power
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