Do you agree with the view that‚ in the years 1511-25‚ English successes in foreign policy outweighed failures? In the years 1511-25‚ England managed to successfully pursue a policy of peacemaking due to Wolsey’s excellent diplomatic skills and managed to negotiate peace at London in 1518 between twenty countries and become a leading power in European affairs; this reflected extremely well on England’s image with the rest of Europe and could be viewed as the basis for the argument that the policy
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Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He led the first European expedition to Florida‚ which he named. He is associated with the legend of the Fountain of Youth‚ reputed to be in Florida. He was born in the village of Santervás de Campos in the northern part of what is now the Spanish province of Valladolid. Although early historians placed his birth in 1460‚ more recent evidence shows
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SPANISH PERIOD When the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines in 1521‚ the colonizers used art as a tool to propagate the Catholic faith through beautiful images. With communication as a problem‚ they used images to explain concepts behind Catholicism and tell stories of Christ’s life and passion. Paintings was exclusively for the churches and for religious purposes. Occassionally used for propaganda. Tagalog painters Jose Loden‚ Tomas Nazario and Miguel delos Reyes‚ did the first still life
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the Aztec capital‚ many people began to die‚ they died in the thousands. The disease covered several people all of the people could not walk or do anything but lay in their beds and slowly fade away. When Cortes returned to besiege Tenochtitlan in 1521 he added starvation to the devastation wreaked by the small pox and the city fell in just seventy-five days. An epidemic the was probably also smallpox similarly favored francisco Pizarro and his troops when they invaded the Inca Empire in 1532.
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belief in werewolves. Some of the accused were arrested because villagers needed someone to blame for dead livestock or some other explainable occurrence‚ but others were accused because of actions far more sinister and less likely to be contrived. In 1521‚ a Pierre Burgot and Michel Verdun were executed as werewolves. Historical records indicate that they were a serial killer team. In 1573‚ again in France‚ another “werewolf” was executed. His name was Gilles Garnier‚ otherwise known as the “Werewolf
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Table of Content Pema Lingpa -The treasurer The life of Pema Lingpa Pema Lingpa was born in Chel Baridrang‚ in the Tang valley in the district of Bumtang. His father was Dondrub Zangpo of Sumtrang and his mother was Pema Dronma. His birth was on the fifteenth day of the second month of the male iron-horse year of the eighth sexagenary cycle‚ corresponding to 1450. His parents named him Dondrub Gyelpo and his maternal aunt Peldro named
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APUSH American Pageant: Edition 13 Chapter 1 Notes Founding the New Nation The people who settled in America didn’t want to found a new nation. They were Europeans who continued to view themselves as Europeans‚ and they regarded America as the “western rim of a transatlantic European world”. The settlers who came to America were much alike. They spoke English and wanted an agricultural society. They grew to cherish the ideals like individual liberty‚ self-government‚ religious tolerance‚ and
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In the European medieval period‚ navigation was considered part of the set of seven mechanical arts‚ none of which were used for long voyages across open ocean. Polynesian navigation is probably the earliest form of open ocean navigation‚ though it was based on memory and observation rather than on scientific methods or instruments. Early Pacific Polynesians used the motion of stars‚ weather‚ the position of certain wildlife species‚ or the size of waves to find the path from one island to another
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recognition of Heaven and Hell is highly important. Those‚ who do not follow or recognize God‚ as the one and only are sentenced to an eternity in Hell‚ without the chance of ever reaching Heaven. Baptists; originated or stemmed from German Anabaptists in 1521‚ and was founded as the Baptists in England. The churches or congregationalism are usually independently and self-governing. Recently I was honored to conduct an interview with Pastor Mike of the Trinity Baptist Church of Reedsburg‚ WI. Growing up
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer born in Northern Portugal in 1492. His parents ‚ were very wealthy and powerful and members of the portuguese nobility but died when he was only 10 years old. Before he became an explorer Magellan was first a soldier. During a Battle Magellan lost an eye after being shot in it and was injured and lost his leg‚ the wooden leg given to him didn’t fit properly causing him to walk with a limp. He sailed for his native Portugal‚ but a dispute with the
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