Why did Pope Urban II call the first Crusade ? There are three main reasons as to why Pope Urban II called the first Crusade. These reasons being ; Improving conditions in the west ‚ Power to the church and the reunification of the Christian church. Although there are many reason that could have been said‚ I valued the three above to be the most important deciding factors to crusade. Improving conditions in the west was a significant reason to call a crusade. The fear of hell and purgatory shaped
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Alexander Pope uses this to his benefit when he depicts the crime in The Rape of the Lock. By alluding to Milton’s work‚ Pope is able to comically refer to the cutting of a lock of hair as a tragic and epic event. In doing this‚ he paradoxically assumes that the crime is not one of personal fault‚ but one fated to happen by God‚ just as in Paradise Lost. “What dire offence from amorous causes springs‚ / What mighty contests rise from trivial things‚” (Pope‚ ll. 1-2). These
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approximately twenty years due to the “multiplication of [his] slaves...the extension of culture‚ and increased demands for lands”(Takaki 56). The main source of Thomas Jefferson’s wealth was derived from being an active slaveholder and landowner. How did Jefferson treat his slaves? Jefferson treated his slaves in a harsh manner. For instance‚ he “‘had [James Hubbard‚ a captured runaway slave‚] severely flogged in the presence of his old companions’”(Takaki 56). Jefferson also punished slaves
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It is said that a person’s actions and words represent who he or she is to other people. One’s actions and words can represent his or her convictions‚ morals‚ and ambitions for the future. These convictions and morals can form the person’s identity. Throughout the stimulus articles‚ there was a common theme of identity. In the article‚ “Vanishing Voices”‚ identity is formed through language‚ culture‚ and actions. These identities represent who an individual is to the rest of the world and to themselves
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Catholic Social Teaching is a body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church on matters of poverty and wealth‚ economics‚ social organizationand the role of the state. Its foundations are widely considered to have been laid by Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical letter Rerum Novarum‚ which advocated economic Distributism and condemned both Capitalism and Socialism‚ although its roots can be traced to the writings of Catholic thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo‚ and is also
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There would not have been a crusading era without the First Crusade. Pope Urban’s willingness to aid Alexious I of Byzantine to halt the rise of Islam‚ his desire to retake Jerusalem and unite eastern and western Churches proved to be more difficult than he anticipated. Therefore‚ there cannot be anything more significant than the First Crusade as it established a new Christian policy‚ one in which the papacy called upon Christian warriors to embark to distant lands and kill in the name of God. For
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necessities for this fight. Currently in Nicaragua‚ these same anti-communist groups have begun to flee in efforts to escape the rule of the Sadanista’s. It is rumored that the groups are forming what are known as guerilla units. Guerilla warfare is fought in “fast-moving‚ small-scale actions.” The rebels and their supporters are trudging into southern Honduras. They have made camps there to accommodate the massive evacuation. Less than 2‚000 fighters are still in Nicaragua today. These people refer to themselves
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Peter the Great DBQPeter the Great was tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725. During his reign‚ Peter the Great made many reforms to Russia socially‚ militarily‚ and economically. These changes proved to have a positive effect on Russia‚ making his reign one of the greatest. As the tsar of Russia‚ Peter the Great enforced many social reforms. He was very influenced by Western European ideas and incorporated many of them into Russian society. Throughout their history‚ Russian males wore long beards. After
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From the Teaching column of the December 2011 issue of Perspectives on History Instilling Civic Responsibility in the Classroom By Rebecca Bates Since the early 1990s‚ there have been calls inside and outside the academy for a reform of higher education. Reformers advocate teaching methods that include engaged learning and ethical training for citizenship‚ rather than mere knowledge acquisition and abstract speculation. In response‚ many teachers of American history have experimented widely
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Preparing Your Family for an Orphanage Visit: Is Your Child Ready? C h e c klis t A d vic e f r o m T h e r a pis t s a n d E x p e rie n c e d P a r e n t s By Jean MacLeod An orphanage visit can be a beneficial event for an adoptee‚ providing a link to personal history and a grounded understanding of her life circumstances. It can also be an unpleasant‚ or even traumatizing experience‚ filled with anxiety and shock over what abandonment and institutionalization really mean. As Jane Liedtke stressed
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