Many places that were enlightened during around the Enlightened Age were actually absolute monarchs. The question here is where these monarchs lead by truly enlightened leaders or were they just using a scheme to promote themselves and to keep their positions. It is hard to tell which Catherine the Great is. To find out‚ you must look at her personality‚ situation‚ foreign policies‚ and economical‚ social‚ and political domestic policies. By looking at these‚ you can see she was‚ for the most part
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The modern state The rise of the "modern state" as a public power constituting the supreme political authority within a defined territory is associated with western Europe’s gradual institutional development beginning in earnest in the late 15th century‚ culminating in the rise of absolutism and capitalism. As Europe’s dynastic states England under the Tudors‚ Spain under the Hapsburgs‚ and France under the Bourbons embarked on a variety of programs designed to increase centralized political
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Social Change: Pig in a Bun Shop Unlike other European countries that no longer used the feudal system‚ Russia allowed serfdom until Alexander II issued the Emancipation of Serfs in 1861‚ freeing serfs and allowing them opportunity to flourish. The emancipation brought rise to the middle class but impoverished the aristocrats. The play‚ The Cherry Orchard‚ begins with Lopakhin and Ranevsky waiting for Madame Ranevsky to return to her family’s estate. Lopakhin is a neighbor of Ranevsky. He was
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MY LORD‚ T HIS T REATISE ‚ which is grown up under your lordship’s eye‚ and has ventured into the world by your order‚ does now‚ by a natural kind of right‚ come to your lord- ship for that protection which you several years since promised it. It is not that I think any name‚ how great soever‚ set at the beginning of a book‚ will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth‚ or the reader’s fancy. But there being nothing
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NAME: Hussaini Hadassah PROGRAMME: International relations MATRIC NO: 12AH013426 COURE: Nigerian system of public administration COURSE CODE: PAD 211 LECTURER: Mrs. Excellence DATE: 27th August‚ 2013. QUESTION What are the functions of the various administrators of the hausa-fulani pre colonial administration? Prior to European occupation and balkanization of Africa‚ most African tribes had well organized empires e.g. Yoruba‚ Benin‚ Hausa‚ Fulani etc. the pre colonial administration had institutions
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Explain why Pope Urban II called for a Crusade in Clermont 1095. One reason‚ or trigger for Pope Urban calling the crusade would have been Alexius’ request for his help. Alexius asked for Pope Urban’s aid in helping him to fight the Turks; this is because they were closing in and starting to invade Constantinople‚ which was the main frontier between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Emperor Alexius felt threatened by the Turks‚ and knew that Pope Urban in him being the head of the Church (the
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The Emancipation Edict of 1861 The condition of the Russian peasant The most noticeable feature of 19th century Russian society was the high proportion of the population‚ around 80 per cent‚ who were peasants. In 1850 almost half of these peasants were serfs‚ peasants tied to the land they worked. They worked on the land given to them and in return for the use of this land they were required to work also for the noble landowner. Three days in the week was the average requirement but in the worse
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The Crusades Top of Form How did the Song of Roland reflect the ideals of the time? What was important to Crusaders? The Song of Roland depicts disregarding the actual history‚ Charlemagne capable of conquering all of Spain. The account is legend. Roland‚ a Frankish lord and Charlemagne’s own nephew. The "treachery" of the Christian Basques becomes transformed into the treachery of a single man‚ Ganelon‚ and the Basques themselves are replaced by Moslems‚ whom the poet calls Saracens or pagans
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Kong Yiji‚ Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun describe the tragedy that generated by the old traditional Chinese civil exam to the low social rank scholar‚ and the unconcerned and indifferent between human relationship in a feudal society during monarchy period. Kong Yiji was a despaired scholar who was unable to pass the civil exam. He was “the only customer in a long gown (page 43)” in the bar. Everyone mocked him for his failure on the exam. Although he was mentally hurt‚ he still showed his arrogant
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Japanese feudal system during the Kamakaru Shogunate from 1100 to 1868 and Europe’s feudal system during the middle ages from the 800’s to the 1600’s were similar regarding warriors and weapons‚ considering that they were based on similar codes of conduct and weaponry‚ were similar in their socio-political division that had a similar hereditary hierarchy‚ but the treatment of women differed in that women were allowed to serve in Japanese warrior class but not in the European’s. European knights
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