Brittney Henley Pd. 2A Chapter 12: Age of Religious Wars Key Topics; -War between Calvinists and Catholics in France. -The Spanish occupation of the Netherlands. -Struggle for supremacy between England and Spain. -The devastation of Central Europe during the Thirty Years’ War. |Vocabulary |Notes | | |
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History of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent * Outline of South Asian history * History of Indian subcontinent | Stone age (7000–3000 BC)[show] * Mehrgarh Culture (7000–3300 BC) | Bronze age (3000–1300 BC)[show] * Indus Valley Civilization (3300–1700 BC) * – Early Harappan Culture (3300–2600 BC) * – Mature Harappan Culture (2600–1900 BC) * – Late Harappan Culture (1700–1300 BC) * Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (from 2000 BC) * Swat culture (1600–500 BC) |
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Allen Yun Ms. Chen English 1 Honors 16 April 2013 Oedipus Rex and Antigone Essay Prompt What would happen if one were to witness a wealthy‚ powerful leader who could wish for nothing more in his life? Sounds like everything a man could dream of‚ right? What if this mighty leader had flaws that brought him to commit a grave mistake that led him to a road of misery? How would that same witness feel towards him now? In Sophocles’ Greek tragedy‚ Antigone‚ the antagonist‚ King Creon‚ undergoes
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Antiochus the Great (223–187 BC). Later rulers and commanders began to use the epithet "the Great" as a personal name‚ like the Roman general Pompey. Others received the surname retrospectively‚ like the Carthaginian Hanno and the Indian emperor Ashoka the Great. Once the surname gained currency‚ it was also used as an honorific surname for people without political careers‚ like the philosopher Albert the Great. As there is no objective criteria for "greatness"‚ the persistence of later generations
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against‚ or an offshoot of Hinduism (this view is even expressed for example in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica). Buddhism simply proved to be one of the more successful new schools of thought within a large variety of philosophies‚ especially after King Ashoka became a Buddhist in 297 BCE‚ and turned it into a state religion. As debate is a very old traditional means of testing (spiritual) teachers in Indian culture‚ of course one can trace many philosophical works (especially in the Mahayana tradition)
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will not be broken. Therefore acting in this way‚ you should perform your duties and assure the people that‚ “The king is like a father. He feels toward us as he feels towards himself. We are to him like his own children.”” shows that according to Ashoka‚ the proper way to govern a people is to focus them on religion; tell them that if they become more religious and do more good deeds‚ than they’ll will be happy and thus the ruler is considered more popular and has less of a chance of being overthrown;
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himself as the absolute ruler of France‚ “one law” by limiting the power of other governmental figures and “one faith” by uniting the French religion. As an absolutist leader‚ with a centralized government‚ his many actions (including the removal of the Edict of Nantes) made France the supreme European power‚ but internal issues prevailed. Louis XIV’s goal of "one king‚ one law‚ one faith" was successful politically‚ but detrimental to France economically (from his acquired debt) and socially (from his
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built up their military to protect themselves and their kingdom. Next‚ both of the monarchs regulated or controlled the religion. Louis XIV took away the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes granted the Calvinist Protestants of France substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic. He revoked it in October‚ 1685 with the Edict of Fontainebleau. Louis did this to make France one centralized religion. Henry VII also changed up religious things. He signed the Act of Supremacy. The
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Essential Questions Foundations of Classical Civilizations Questions China India Rome Greece 1. How is the social structure set up? Qin Dynasty - peasants no longer were loyal to landowners - established bureaucracy Han Dynasty - highly patriarchal society - large merchant class - scholar - bureaucrats Maurya Empire - efficient bureaucracy with secret police Gupta Empire - relied on local authorities to maintain order and to collect tributes Republic - tensions between patrician
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Christians in the Byzantium Empire The Byzantine Empire was in fact the Eastern Roman Empire. Byzantium was established in the year 395 and came to an end in 1453. During the Byzantine reign of power‚ we shall see imperial Christianity which was distinctive to Byzantium. This was a rule were the Pope was not the ruler over the Christians but it was effectively the Emperor who held control over the church. This included appointing prominent bishops and also appointed patriarchs.1 The religious aspect
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