|Student Number |101 | | | | |Student Name |Sunil_3 Patel | | |
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philosopher‚ whose amoral‚ but influential writings on statecraft have turned his name into a synonym for cunning and duplicity. Born in Florence on May 3‚ 1469‚ Machiavelli entered government service as a clerk and rose to prominence when the Florentine Republic was proclaimed in 1498. He was secretary of the ten-man council that conducted the diplomatic negotiations and supervised the military operations of the republic‚ and his duties included missions to the French king (1504‚ 1510-11)‚ the
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Machiavelli served as the secretary to the Second Chancery in Florence where he travelled on diplomatic missions‚ gave advice on military tactics and he organized a Florentine militia. After the Medici family came to power he was removed from his job‚ arrested and tortured. After being exonerated and released he longed to work for the Florentine government again‚ and the only possible way for him to regain a position was to be noticed by the prince‚ and present an applicable plan to help the Prince control
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These two David’s sculptures might look very different from each other at the first glance‚ but if you study them close‚ they actually have many similarities. One of Donatello’s best-known work portrays David after he defeated Goliath by striking him with a stone and cutting his head off with Goliath’s own sword. Donatello was the first artist that created a nude life-sized sculpture since antiquity. His bronze sculpture of David indicates that he completely mastered the classical tradition of art
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Middle Age Economy The economy mostly seen in the early middle ages was feudalism‚ Europe’s form of government in the Middle Ages‚ was developed in the fifth century to meet the changing needs of the time. It was based heavily on the honor system. The king had overall power‚ then the lord‚ then the vassals‚ or landowners‚ and finally down to the peasants‚ known then as the villeins. The fiefs‚ or estates‚ could be rented out to one vassal who would then rent portions of the
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Kaylin Smallwood Early Modern Primary Source Essay 07-19-2013 Marchione di Coppo Stefani‚ The Florentine Chronicle This source is a chronicle that was written in the late 1370s and early 1380s‚ of events related to the bubonic plague that took place in the year 1348. It was written by Marchione di Coppo Stefani for the Florentine Chronicle. It was written to inform the people of that time what happened to the people that had the plague‚ the families‚ and the economy during and after the plague
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Topic A – Final Felipe Fernandez- Armesto has written that the Spanish conquest of the Aztec has long been attributed to what he calls the “conquistador myth”: the notion that the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs “because they were in some sense better‚ better equipped‚ technically morally or intellectually”. Do you agree with Fernandez- Armesto that this is a myth? If explain why? If so explain why not. The question of how a small Spanish army was able to conquer one of the greatest ancient
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Justinian was born into a peasant family in 483 AD. He was later adopted by his uncle and came to power after his uncle. In 525 AD Justinian married Theodora. Theodora was a the lowest class of them all‚ she was a prostitute. No matter what they went through at the beginning of their lives doesn’t mean they couldn’t have success later in life. Justinian came to rule in 521 and came up with his own code of law‚ Justinian’s Code. Theodora helped women all around gain rights and helped set them free
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Watching the NOVA special Cracking the Maya Code made me realize a lot of things about the Maya’s and about their language that I had never before known. I thought it was very interesting how they figured out the Dresden codex correlated to a time the universe had started. Even more than that‚ they correlated that to our calendar‚ to help them date the hieroglyphics that they found. I think it is really interesting how they recreated what the Maya cities would have looked like‚ and how the civilizations
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the Italian Renaissance‚ recognized in his own time for his artistic virtuosity. His works include the David and Pieta statues and the ceiling paintings of Rome’s Sistine Chapel‚ including the Last Judgment. Although he always considered himself a Florentine‚ Michelangelo lived most of his life in Rome‚ where he died in 1564‚ at age 88. Early Life Painter‚ sculptor‚ architect and poet Michelangelo‚ one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance‚ was born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
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