466: Council of 12 lagoon townships formed 568: Mainland settlement abandoned 727: First Doge (leader) elected 810: Settlement at Rivo Alto (Modern Venice) 1000: Dalmatia captured; empire begins 1204: Constantanople captured by Venice and 4 th crusaders 1255: War with Genoa 1509: Decisivly defeated at Agnadello by League of Cambrai 1797: Venice surrenders soverignty ending 1‚070 years of Republican government Venetian Language “Na ƚengua soƚa no ƚa xé mai bastansa” One language is never
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Inquisition and the Indians of Colonial Mexico:” The Americas‚ Vol. 50‚ No. 3‚ pp. 351-376 (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press on behalf of Academy of American Franciscan History‚ Jan.‚ 1994) ➢ Rubenstein‚ Jay. Cannibals and Crusaders. 31: 525-552 (North Carolina: Duke University Press‚ French Historical Studies‚ 2008) ➢ Stent‚ Gunther S. “Paradoxes of Free Will”: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society‚ New Series‚ Vol. 92‚ No. 6‚ pp. i-iii+v-ix+xi-xii+1-261+263-273+275-284
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Minda~Quenn Yeary Saint Thomas Aquinas Philosopher and theologian St. Thomas Aquinas was born circa 1225 in Italy. Combining the theological principles of faith with the philosophical principles of reason‚ he ranked among the most influential thinkers of medieval Scholasticism. People were at odds as to how to unite the knowledge they obtained through revelation with the information they observed naturally using their mind and their senses. Based on Averroes’s "theory of the double truth‚"
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causation of the preexisting problems in society. Over drinking resulted as the first drug scare. Folks behind the “Drug wars” The over drinking scare was constructed by temperance crusaders whom were made up of native citizens‚ catholists‚ middle class‚ non-urban protestors. These temperance crusaders felt threatened by the working class during industrialization. This was followed by the elite group throwing their weight behind the prohibitionist groups. They felt that the drinking
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In A Tale of Two Cities‚ key elements of the plot revolve around the reader’s opinions of two opposing forces of the novel: the bloodthirsty revolutionaries and the decadent aristocracy. To his credit‚ Dickens does make allusions to some of the horrific acts indulged in by the French rebels‚ although examples of this are few and far between; he more often chooses to focus on the deplorable acts committed by the formerly ruling aristocracy. Though some may think that the disapproval for the revolution’s
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Joseph Carmona Distance Learning Book Report Multicultural Evangleism 15 November 2008 The Legacy of William Carey The title of this book is "The Legacy of William Carey" written by Vishal and Ruth Mangalwadi. This book discusses William Carey’s involvement in modernizing India with God’s vision. It’s a collection of 5 essays‚ the first 3 chapters are written by Ruth Mangalwadi‚ and is centering on the place of women in Indian society and how important Christianity was in their freedom from
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The Medieval Period in Europe ranges from the third century to the emergence of the Renaissance in Italy in the fourteen hundreds. The Romanesque style was the first truly international style of medieval times‚ followed by Gothic in the late twelfth century. One of the most important surviving monuments of architecture and sculpture of the Romanesque period is the Benedictine abbey church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine at Vèzelay in Burgundy. Part of the church that I believe is an important part of
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In “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ an ancient statue is told to be proclaiming the creator’s greatness in his empire‚ while standing alone in the desert. Although Ozymandias’s empire may have been great‚ the ceaseless march of time grinds all civilizations to oblivion‚ leaving only ironic reminders of their former glory. Created from the author’s knowledge of fallen civilization in a contest with the his friend‚ the poem Ozymandias has become a cultural icon for the decay of what once was great
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s speech to the allied delegates St. James’s Place‚ London‚ June 12‚ 1941 What tragedies‚ what horrors‚ what crimes has Hitler and all that Hitler stands for brought upon Europe and the world! The ruins of Warsaw‚ of Rotterdam‚ of Belgrade are monuments which will long recall to future generations the outrage of unopposed air bombing applied with calculated scientific cruelty to helpless populations. Here in London and throughout the cities of our island and in
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furious and sent down ceaseless rains upon Kypaen for an entire year. The rain flooded the harbors‚ ruined the fields‚ and wrecked countless homes. The storms battered and buried the island until Kypaen was on the brink of disaster. Out of food‚ the people of Isuthio begged him to offer something to Zeus to calm his anger‚ but the prideful King refused. The rest of the Olympians besides Zeus took pity on the people of Kypaen‚ and asked the Son of Kronos to end the ceaseless rain. Zeus‚ stuck in his
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