CATEGORIES OF ABIRU IN ANCIENT RWANDA In political and administrative system of ancient Rwanda‚ Abiru or the guardians of esoteric codes were important officials at the court of the king. They served as the advisers of the king‚ they kept royal secrets‚ they controlled the symbol of royal power like the dynastic drum‚ and they enthroned a new king. Their institution was called ubwiru. All the Abiru were not equal. There was something like hierarchy among them. Refering to their power and functions
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Once upon a time in a land far far away lived the 4 most beautiful princesses in all of fairytale land. They were all trying to impress the handsome prince Christos. Prince Christos was coming to fairy tale land in one day to marry the smartest‚ most beautiful princess in the whole Kingdom. The first princess’s name was Aleena. Princess Aleena had the most beautiful long blond hair and had magical shoes. The second princess was Jennine. Princess Jennine was a beautiful brown haired princess from
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portion of the 1600’s‚ the monarchial systems of both England and France were changing. England strayed away from an absolute monarch and ran toward a mightier parliament instead. The opposite was occurring in France as Louis XIV strengthened his own office while weakening the general assembly of France‚ the Estates General. Absolutism‚ the political situation in which a monarch controls makes all political‚ social‚ economic‚ and cultural decisions in a government without checks or balances‚ had been
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The British Royal Family The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people who are the relations of the monarch in her or his role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms‚ thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family. Members of the Royal Family belong to‚ either by birth or marriage‚ the House of Windsor‚ since 1917‚ when George V changed the name of
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complete authority over their subjects with no restraint on their power and no one being able to remove them from their throne. This however is setting a kingdom up for failure as even though some people can be prone to violence‚ oppressing them with a monarch that controls them too harshly or that are disinterested in ruing a kingdom can cause an even more violent uprising which is displayed in the French revolution. Nonetheless‚ having a government body put in power is necessary as humans do require leadership
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The Coronation that Shook the World The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David is imposing in its dimensions. It stands at twenty feet by thirty feet and is displayed in the main gallery of the Louvre museum in Paris. David began this work of art after being orally commissioned by Napoleon in September of 1804. The painting came to its completion November of 1807. The sole fact that the painting took three years to complete demonstrates something about the magnitude and scale of the painting
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century‚ British monarchs had the right to make and pass legislation. Over time‚ the powers of the monarch were limited‚ both by laws enacted by Parliament and by changing political practices and customs. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries‚ the day-to-day exercise of political power was gradually taken over by Parliament‚ the Prime Minister and the cabinet eventually developing into a modern constitutional monarchy. It is a form of government in which an elected or hereditary monarch acts as Head
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that he should be respectful to other kings and be kind when asking them for their assistance‚ while Qianlong seems to believe that his empire is of highest importance and all others should follow his orders and requests. The reason why these two monarchs were different was because‚ the trade the Kongo Empire was engaged in was harming Afonso’s empire while‚ the trade the Qing were engaged in was causing a great boom in the economy and bringing much wealth to the Qing dynasty. These two authors
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Absolutism Test Study Guide Know: Study the vocabulary: absolutism Divine Right Thirty Years War republic mercantilism Peace of Augsburg Junkers Seven Years War Boyar Czar The Restoration Habeas corpus Edict of Nantes absolute monarch Czar War of the Spanish Succession Treaty of Paris‚ 1763 Constitutional monarchy Peace of Westphalia Glorious Revolution L’etat‚ c’est moi Names of families in charge of the various European countries (spelled correctly) Divine right Edict
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since the line of British monarchs began in 1066 with William the Conqueror‚ a monarch and a royal family have been in place to watch over Great Britain. Monarchs from hundreds of years ago had power over everyone and they merely had to state what they wanted and it was done for them‚ however crazy a request. For example Henry VIII could just say ‘cut his head off’ and it was done without really much thought. Though‚ over the centuries: the role and importance of a monarch has largely decreased‚ as
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