Adolf Spiess By: Dijon Cordova Adolf Spiess was born February 3‚ 1810‚ in Lauterbach‚ Hesse‚ and died May 9‚ 1858. But before he died he was a German gymnast and educator‚ which he contributed to the development of school gymnastics for children of both sexes in Switzerland and Germany. Growing up Adolf lived with his father Johann Spiess‚ whom was a farmer and master smith‚ but had first prepared himself for a position as teacher in the elementary schools‚ but after some years of professional
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Chapter 18: The Rise of Russia Ivan III- He was a Grand Prince of Moscow‚ also referred to as the “gatherer of the Russian lands”. Boyars- They originally obtained influence and government posts through their military support of the Kievan princes. Romanov Dynasty- Rulers of Russia from 1613 to 1917. The name derived from Roman Yurev. Peter I the Great- Peter the Great was born in 1672 and he died in 1725. Peter was tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725. His self-given title was Peter the Great
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Chapter Six Mannheim’s citizens celebrated the joyous occasion of the marriage of Princess Marie to the Marquess of Hamilton when the palace gates were thrown open by the Grand Duke’s soldiers and they were invited in to eat‚ drink and dance in the square in front of the palace all the while bells tolled in the Jesuit Church. Meanwhile‚ back in the Knight’s Hall in the palace‚ Karolina did not even notice that members of the nobility were dancing on a raised platform separated at one end of the great
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Next up‚ who are the Russians and the people that inhabit Moscow? The land we know today as Russia began with native inhabitants known as the Slavic People. The term Slav or Slavic would later create the term in the western hemisphere‚ ‘slave.’ The Slavic people were enslaved by Scandinavian settlers known as the Vikings. The enslavement of the Slavs‚ created the western term of slave. The Vikings arrived in Russia via the Volga River basin. They came mainly from frozen Sweden‚ seeking better lands
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Unit 5 Portfolio Liseia Woodard 11th Grade class Teacher: Mrs. O’Neil 01/05/2013 SUBJECT: Napoleon Bonaparte Years of rule: 1799-1815 Area of control: Spain to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw Religions practiced in empire: Catholicism and Protestantism During Napoleon’s reign as Emperor of the French Empire he made laws‚ or a set of codes‚ that applied to all of France. He enacted laws that protected the people‚ promoted religious tolerance and took away the serfdom and feudalism systems
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Napoleon had a choice‚ he didn’t have to tempt to invade Russia‚ he could have just let it be. Alexander I and Napoleon were allies‚ in my opinion‚ he wasn’t in control of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland so honestly‚ why did he care if Russia stopped selling grain to them. Also‚ just because they both wanted to take over Poland doesn’t mean he needed to invade Russia. In June of 1812‚ Napoleon and the French army marched to Russia‚ as Napoleon got further Alexander made his troops
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before it was united in 1230 by Mindaugas‚ who was crowned as King of the Lithuania‚ creating the first unified Lithuanian state‚ on 6 July 1253. During the 14th century‚ the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest country in Europe. Present day Belarus‚ Ukraine‚ and parts of Poland and Russia were territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With the Lublin Union of 1569‚ Lithuania and Poland formed a voluntary two-state union‚ the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Commonwealth lasted more than
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Autocracy a system of government in which a supreme political power is concentrated in the hands of one person 55. Ivan III(the Great) and Ivan IV(the Terrible) a Grand Prince of Moscow‚ was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death 56. Peter the Great ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire 57. Catherine the Great longest-ruling female leader of Russia 58. Serfdom the status of peasants under feudalism
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of Russia in 1812 was the cause of his eventual downfall. To what extent do you agree with this statement? To a large extent‚ Napoleon Bonaparte’s failed invasion of Russia was the cause of his eventual downfall. In 1812 Napoleon marched with his Grand Army into Russia in an attempt to seize the country. The crushing defeat which followed devastated the army‚ leaving it incapacitated and vulnerable. This venture into Russia crippled Napoleon’s quest for European domination‚ and destroyed his fiercely
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commitment to public science development of skills and talents 5 Family Patriarchal (men in charge) daughters marry in mid-teens to benefit both families sons not independent until their 20s or 30s 6 Medici Family ruling family of Grand Duchy of Tuscany "despots" or dictators 7 Humanism "new learning"; "civilized" emphasize humans‚ their abilities & achievements 8 Quattrocento 15th Century 9 Giovanni De’Medici founder of Medici dynasty became a banker by ignoring Church’s
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