Cities saw a decrease in population. Yet people tried to save themselves and others with cures that would not work. The first holocaust was caused because of the black plague. A fight‚ Christians killed Jews. No one could stop them‚ not even the pope. Even though most of the results of the black plague were bad‚ there was some good. The Black Plague caused death everywhere‚ and‚ the effect is change in religion‚ economy‚ and the country. Yet‚ it all started with a
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was the reformation? A sixteenth century movement from which the protestant churches originated. The Reformation is one of the most profound processes of change in Europe of the sixteenth century. Intense criticism of the Church of Rome led by the pope resulted in various reformational currents and the formation of several Protestant church reformations. The critical views of the religious sphere deeply impacted the spiritual‚ social‚ and cultural terrain‚ as well as upon the political sphere. The
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significant to their culture. Grigg claims the drink became associated with Islam. Noticing coffee’s popularity among Muslims‚ the Roman Catholic Church labeled coffee as the “bitter invention of Satan” (“The History of Coffee”)‚ urging the Pope to ban it. Pope Clement VII tasted the drink and legalized it for Christians.5 Even so‚ outsiders began to see coffee as a Muslim ritual rather than a drink to benefit
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Throughout the world in the 1500s‚ different countries articulated different perspectives about the Ottoman empire. However‚ the most contrasting perspectives of the Ottoman empire were the Europeans. The two sources that have the most religious motivation contrast is a New Means to an Old End: Early Modern Maps in the Service of An Anti-Ottoman Crusade‚ written by James P. Krokar and Gloriana Rules the Waves: Or‚ the Advantage of Being Excommunicated (and a Woman) written by Lisa Jardine. They both
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the use of two rather than seven sacraments. ____ 19. Although Charles V had many adversaries‚ his chief concern during his reign was a. Henry VIII of England. b. Ludwig II of Bavaria. c. Charles XII of Sweden. d. Francis I of France. e. Pope Clement
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Practically nothing is known of Nicolo Machiavelli before he became a minor official in the Florentine Government. His youth‚ however‚ was passed during some of the most tumultuous years in the history of Florence. He was born the year that Lorenzo the Magnificent came to power‚ subverting the traditional civil liberties of Florence while inaugurating a reign of unrivaled luxury and of great brilliance for the arts. He was twenty-five at the time of Savonarola ’s attempt to establish a
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reputation as a preacher and eventually filled the offices of procurator of Rome‚ provincial of Liguria‚ and in 1464‚ was chosen as general of his order. Three years later‚ Rovere was chosen as cardinal-priest of St. Pietro in Vincoli by Pope Paul II. In 1471‚ Rovere became Pope Sixtus and was fourth of the name. Because of Rovere’s position‚ the most recent member of the Sacred College‚ it is believed that his rise to papacy was due to bribery and/or to Rovere’s friendship with Cardinal Bessarion‚ as Rovere
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Michelangelo was the greatest master of the human figure in the Renaissance and in his detailed masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel he proved that he was exactly that. The Last Judgment was a monumental piece of artwork that has so many expressive meanings all elaborately placed together to make one huge masterpiece. Michelangelo embodies different stories combined into one that all have separate religious meaning. He expressed the church reform and shows nudity that was not highly accepted; on the
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The Divine Comedy is considered by many to be one of the greatest epic poems ever written. The allegorical epic was written by Dante Alighieri who was born in Florence‚ Italy in 1265‚ to a moderately wealthy family that had a history of involvement in the remarkably complex Florentine politics. Dante Alighieri included much of his personal life and his own views of the politics of the late thirteenth-century Florence as he was writing The Divine Comedy. As a result‚ The Divine Comedy is somewhat
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successful in asserting its dominance over the Western Church? The extent to which the papacy asserted dominance over the Western Church has been greatly disputed amongst historians. Certain historians would argue that there is little to suggest that the pope had control from inside other than papal reform to prevent unrest and‚ would argue that in fact the real conflict was between him and individual states and that he had to deal with multiple reforms and claims that failed. However‚ there are Historians
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