The Catholic Church played a large role in colonial Latin American society. The Church served as a unifying institution in a society made up of many different kinds of people - Europeans‚ Africans‚ Indigenous‚ and mixed-raced individuals - from a variety of economic backgrounds. Documents from the colonial period show that the Church was a maintainer of Iberian social order‚ and its officials and priests were expected to serve as exemplars of their religion. The Church maintained order and conveyed
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century‚ Europe was heavily dependent on the Church for just about everything. The Catholic Church had a firm hold on any religious beliefs people held. Therefore‚ science only existed for the few people that dared to go against the normal religious teachings. Slowly‚ people began to break away from the uniform idea of religion and started to question many of the teachings of the Church. Also‚ Enlightenment thinkers got the ball rolling‚ calling out the corruptness of the Catholic Church in Europe. This
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Post-classical India and Medieval Europe were similar politically and different economically. Politically‚ neither society had a centralized government any more‚ they were in political turmoil and were run by individual‚ regional states. Economically‚ India was mostly trade and export based which is how it’s economy flourished while Europe was well off due to southernization‚ they didn’t join the major trade network until the late middle ages. After the Gupta dynasty in India‚ King Harsha continued
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generally been assigned a role inferior to males. In both the days of Rome (753 BC – 476 AD) and of Medieval Europe (~500-1485 AD)‚ patriarchy reigned. While acknowledging this fact‚ the question can be asked: What constitutes a better position in society for women? A better position in society is composed primarily of freedoms‚ rights‚ and education. Although women‚ both Roman and Medieval‚ were almost entirely subject to the authority of their fathers and husbands‚ Roman women possessed superior
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The Australian Scene The Catholic Church began in Australia on 26 January 1788‚ when the first Catholics arrived in Sydney Harbor with the first fleet. The first Catholics were neither priests‚ neither brothers nor nuns‚ in fact‚ they were no regular priests here for the first 38 years of European settlement. The first Catholics- English‚ Scottish and Irish- were lay people. From the beginning the Catholics were poor. They were migrants‚ usually uneducated and most were convicts. From the beginning
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Excursus: What is “good” according to the Roman Catholic Tradition? (Ref. Gula‚ Richard. 1989. Faith Informed By Reason) The nature of the concept good is the full realization of any beings’ potential‚ or to achieve perfection. The innate tendency within the human person to seek perfection is the ontological basis for the fundamental moral obligation – to realize one’s potential‚ or to be all I can be. Actions are moral when it arise from this innate tendency and contribute to the full
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illustration of the Medieval Christian Church is presented. However‚ while people demanded more voice in the affairs of government‚ the church became corrupt -- this corruption also led to a more crooked society. Nevertheless‚ there is no such thing as just church history; This is because the church can never be studied in isolation‚ simply because it has always related to the social‚ economic and political context of the day. In history then‚ there is a two way process where the church has an influence
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they were really just the tipping point. Before Luther‚ many people and events attacked the Catholic Church and it’s credibility. The most influential of these people and events were John Wycliffe‚ Jan Hus‚ and the Black Death. John Wycliffe was the first major critic of the ideology of the Catholic Church. His ideas would later influence both Jan Hus and Martin Luther himself. Wycliffe attacked the church with three separate ideas and actions. First‚ Wycliffe believed that “Men exercised dominion
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What were the effects of the black plague on Medieval Europe? The black plague was a very deathly plague that killed many. Effects of the black plague on Medieval Europe were that it killed millions of people‚ it made the land even filthier than it already was‚ and it had lots of effects on the people. To begin with‚ the black plague killed millions. This plague infected most of Africa and it took less than a decade to kill less than one percent of the population. This plague killed about twenty
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charge to the Syrian-northern Mesopotamian military leader Nur al-din. Sultan Saladin played a leading role for the Muslims in the fight against the Crusaders. He participated in three campaigns into Egypt (which was led by the Shi’ite Fatimid Dynasty)‚ and then
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