1) Why was the Protestant Reformation significant? The Protestant Reformation separated Europe and it affected the power of the church‚ monarchs‚ and individual states. Because the Reformation lowered the authority of the church‚ the monarchs and independent states took advantage and seized more power. Many people started asking about their place in society‚ for it was tied into politics and religion. Hence they demanded more of democracy. The base was laid for the future without taking notice
Premium Protestant Reformation Christianity Catholic Church
How do Homer’s the Iliad and Odyssey compare and contrast? July 4‚ 2012 at 8:12 am How do Homer’s the Iliad and Odyssey compare and contrast? The Iliad begins with Chryses‚ a prophet of Apollo‚ coming to a Greek camp and offering valuable “penalty tokens” requesting the return of his daughter who the Greeks had captured in a raid. Because Agamemnon believed she was rightfully his‚ he refused. Most of his fellow Greeks wanted him to return her in order to avoid conflict. In order to preserve
Premium Trojan War Odyssey Odysseus
Lowell mills‚ although their wages were consistently lower -- often by as much as half -- than those of their male counterparts. Certainly‚ laborers at Lowell faced harsh working conditions. Like the Philadelphia laborers mentioned above‚ intellectual Orestes Brownson wrote a piece in the Boston Quarterly Review that criticized Lowell mills on the grounds that the male employer made a huge profit off of the operation‚ holding on to all the convenient aspects of slavery while dismissing all of its inconveniences
Premium Industrial Revolution United States Factory
female graduates of the British Empire along with Chandramukhi Basu. She was one of the first female physicians of South Asia to be trained in European medicine. ------------------------------------------------- Early life The daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu‚ she was born at Bhagalpur‚ Bihar in British India. Her father was headmaster of Bhagalpur School. He and Abhay Charan Mallick started the movement for women’s emancipation at Bhagalpur‚ establishing the women’s organisation Bhagalpur
Premium Kolkata Bengali people Woman
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia.[4][5] From equal status with men in ancient times[6] through the low points of the medieval period‚[7] to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers‚ the history of women in India has been eventful. Women were considered inferior to men in practical life. But in scriptures they were given high position. Thus in past‚ the status of women in India was not clear. It was theoretically high but practically
Free India British Raj Mughal Empire
Absolutism and Peter the Great Many monarchs‚ particularly those of European descent‚ employed the flourishing absolutist philosophy during their reign in the seventeenth century. Defined as the "absolute or unlimited rule usually by one man‚" absolutism is virtually equivalent to the philosophy of despotism. A ruler incorporating the absolutist philosophy has complete control of his subjects and the highest authority with which to govern. With origins dating back to the Ancient Greeks‚ absolutism
Premium Monarchy Sovereignty Political philosophy
Reformers such as Florence Kelley and Lewis Hine saw the child labor as a problem that needed to be addressed and fixed. However one reaction by a superintendent to the problem was that because the children were healthy it means that child labor was not a
Premium Trade union Strike action Employment
The reformers refused to separate at all from the church‚ and they were referred to by the Anabaptists as sub-christians‚ and by some‚ even demonic. Anabaptists‚ or “Swiss Brethren” as they referred to themselves as‚ thought that the high point of Christianity
Premium Protestant Reformation Christianity Catholic Church
different people migrated to America. Thomas Jefferson and other reformers also help change the way education was taught in America because they believed education should have not included religious beliefs. Reformers also opposed the idea of only the wealthy being able to obtain an education. Reformers spoke out on education saying crime and poverty would go down if people received a quality education. By the end of the colonial period‚ reformers made a way for every child to at least have a elementary
Premium Higher education Education
The historical background to the Reformation shows that‚ in addition to challenging Papal authority and the morality of the Roman Catholic Church‚ there was a search for biblical truth and recognition of the need for an accurate biblical translation. From this developed the Reformation’s key principles of supreme biblical authority (Sola Scriptura)‚ the sufficiency and clarity of scripture‚ the right of private judgement‚ and the literal sense of Scripture‚ which brought the reintroduction of the
Premium Protestant Reformation Christianity Catholic Church