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    plantations and jumpstart the gang labor system. CIVIL CONSTITUTION OF THE CLERGY When: 1790‚ beginning of French Revolution Where: France Who/What: The National Assembly passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy‚ fundamentally altering the internal structure of the Catholic Church in France and the relationship between Church and State. In 1791 however‚ the Pope condemned the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Significance: While many Catholic clerics and lay people supported the Act

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    spent way too much money on himself and his wife‚ Marie Antoinette. Louis XVI would demand that the third estate‚ the poorest and hardest working of them all‚ to be responsible to pay all the taxes. The second and third estate‚ known as the nobles and clergy‚ would not have the responsibility of paying any taxes and was able to own a large percentage of land. This made the third estate furious towards the king and queen because instead of using the people’s tax money to pay off the debt and help the country

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    French Revaluation French Revaluation was one of the oldest revaluation in the world’s history of modernization in 18th century. The French revaluation has many factors of the West at the end of the 18th main causes may explain why it was most violent in the worlds history and important about this revaluation. In 1789 French had conflicts in Political‚ Social and Economic situations in French that contributed to the depression felt by thousands of French people especially those people who lived in

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    training of priests in the spiritual life and the theological traditions of the Church The Waldensian - late 12th century when Peter Valdez - followers called themself the poor - translated the bible in common language. -did not follow the clergy The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade -(1209–1229) was a 20-year military campaign - By Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc‚ in the south of France. -They believe only the spirit is good and the physical world is evil

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    Before the French Revolution‚ the King and nobles had absolute control over the peasants and working class. The peasants were asked to pay multiple high taxes that most of them could not afford. A majority of the nobility would collect numerous fees and taxes from the lands they owned in addition to the crown’s taxes and a tithe from the Church (Beecher‚ Jonathan‚ Larson‚ Gleason 4-5‚ 2). Due to the financial difficulty‚ peasants were often pushed to work more‚ leaving them virtually no time to themselves

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    During the 19th-century many ideologies were taking hold across the world which were changing the political and social atmosphere for all people and institutions. As a result‚ the Catholic Church was faced with the challenge of how to deal with this new‚ modern world. In this century‚ the old regime of absolutism and conservatism‚ favored by most Catholics‚ saw its definitive end with the emergence of a society that looked to nationalism as well as liberalism to govern itself. The Catholic Church

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    Devry university | The Printing Press | Gutenberg’s Movable type | | Lucas D Miller | 6/10/2012 | The information presented in this paper will illustrate how the printing press‚ more specifically Gutenberg’s press‚ acted as an “agent of change” in the proliferation of knowledge throughout Europe and global society in general. | The world we know is merely the cumulative results of at least eight millennia of human activity and invention (Elliot‚ 2012). Writing was a way for man

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    outline I. Introduction and Thesis Statement • The thesis statement is about the four suits on a deck of cards. The four suits include spades‚ clubs‚ hearts‚ and diamonds. Spades represent nobility‚ clubs represent peasants‚ hearts represent clergy‚ and diamonds represent merchants. II. Events that Led to the Advancement • During the fifteenth century the French designed the suits on the deck of cards as we know the suits today being spades‚ clubs‚ hearts‚ and diamonds. When the French designed

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    “A Comparison of Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech and ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’”. 9% Similarity Born in Atlanta Georgia in 1929‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ conceivably lived as one of the greatest social and religious leaders in a country where a group of its citizens had to endure excruciating conditions of disenfranchisement‚ inferiority and degradation of a second class citizenship by reasons of race‚ color or origin. In effort to condemn all

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    Christians have faced persecutions since the very beginning of the Catholic Church. Until the Edict of Milan‚ in 313 AD‚ Christians were persecuted by their local authorities and the local Jews. The “secret meetings” held by Christians raised suspicions of the Jews and posed a threat to the Roman Empire. Emperor Nero is known for his extremely violent persecutions and setting fire to the center of Rome‚ deflecting the blame onto the innocent Christians. The line of emperors after Nero also took

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