NUREMBERG The Christmas Market at Hauptmarkt Square Nuremberg is one of the most historical‚ influential‚ and innovative cities of Germany and of Central Europe. With a population over one million citizens‚ Nuremberg has been culturally and historically significant in many events spanning its near 1000 years of existence. The city has seen the brunt of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Regime‚ as well as the famous Nuremberg Trails that followed. Nuremberg proved extremely innovative as it was a center for
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The 16th Century Ideas That Echo Through Modern Science “The history of science is part of the history of mankind. It is a record of one aspect of the human struggle to achieve security and certainty in an ever-changing universe.” (Levy‚ 3) Science is an ever expanding subject and reaches out into almost every aspect of our lives. Before the sixteenth-century science as we know it did not exist. Natural philosophy‚ and astronomy were the main focus of the time. These two fields were highly
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of modern science during the early modern period. In the Ways of the World: A Global History with Sources textbook by Robert Strayer‚ it informs that the initial breakthrough in this revolution came from Polish mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus who had written a book titled On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in which he shattered the idea that everything revolved around Earth by revealing evidence that the Earth‚ in fact‚ revolved around the sun (Strayer 742). Due to the publishing
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1a: Describe pre-industrial rural life and cottage industries What was life like before machines? 2 things: life and home how production worked large‚ mostly poor lower class; small‚ mostly rich upper class (no middle class) 9/10 people on farms many items handmade knew very little about outside world => travel difficult domestic industries => home business mostly making cloth “home-based textile makers” v. few people literate raised food on small farms textile manufacturing => first
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There has always been a fascination with finding the answers to all of the ultimate questions‚ whether it is the origin or the purpose and destiny of an individual. However‚ majority of religious and non-religious groups believe that they hold the answers to such questions. But sometimes the answers given are not enough and the individual will turn to other beliefs until they are satisfied with the given answer. Some Catholics convert to a cult and turn to Science or Atheism for their answers to
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Protestant Reformation‚ the Thirty Years’ War‚ and longer life expectancies were all precursors to the Enlightenment. The Scientific Revolution was also a major part of the Enlightenment. For example‚ beliefs on planetary motion changed thanks to Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler. Rather than the planets moving in a circular orbit with a consistent speed around the earth‚ scientific evidence revealed that the planets actually had an elliptical orbit with varying speeds around the sun. Newton’s discovery
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What is truth? A simply complex question‚ truth is what we know‚ what we believe‚ or simply what is definite. I believe that we have personal truths that drive our beliefs‚ both of which are ever changing. In these changing truths‚ there is a common attribute: to further our truth is to strain our own being. For the betterment and continuity of human thought‚ we must undergo personal strains in the hope of going deeper into our changing beliefs. These strains are not all internal‚ for looking for
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Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series‚ No. 24‚ Torun: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press‚ pp. 161–176. SA-Venues.com‚ 2013‚ Eastern Cape Maps: Attraction map of Eastern Cape‚ available on https://www.sa-venues.com/maps/eastcape_attractions.htm‚ date accessed: 05 October 2017. Swart‚ N. (2013). Adventure travel
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I. The fragmentation of western Christendom A. The Protestant Reformation 1. Martin Luther (1483-1546) attacked the sale of indulgences‚ 1517 a. Attacked corruption in the Roman Catholic Church; called for reform b. Argument reproduced with printing presses and widely read c. Enthusiastic popular response from lay Christians‚ princes‚ and many cities d. By mid-sixteenth century‚ half the German people adopted Lutheran Christianity 2. Reform spread outside Germany a. Protestant movements
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Europe Day Celebrating the creation of the European Union. Europe Day commemorates 9 May 1950‚ when the then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organised Europe‚ to help maintain peaceful relations between European countries. This proposal‚ known as the ’Schuman declaration’‚ is considered to be the act that created what is now the European Union. Today‚ the 9th of May has become a European symbol (Europe Day) which‚ along with the flag‚ the
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