Saracens‚ took over the lands and denied more Pilgrimages to the Holy Lands. This brought great anger to Pope Urban II. Pope Urban II was responsible for the very first Christian Crusade. He started this by giving an extremely influential speech to all Christians in Europe and Medieval time saying that the Saracens were turning Christian Churches into Mosques which were Muslim churches. Pope Urban II then told all Christian men and European Christian Princes to go on a crusade to take back the Holy lands
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others by bishops‚ and even a few by warriors themselves. Historians are constantly asking‚ "What exactly did Pope Urban II say at the council of Clermont to persuade Christians to set forth on such a difficult venture as the Crusades?" One man‚ an early 12th century cleric named Fulcher of Chartres wrote perhaps the best historical chronicle of the events at Clermont and the speech of Urban II.<br><br>Fulcher begins his account with a prologue that states how blessed the journeymen of the Crusades were
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Supporting Urban Sprawl Essay Many people are naturally attracted towards less developed areas for better opportunities. However‚ populations in these places are on the rise‚ and more land must be developed upon to support all of these people‚ creating the issue of urban sprawl. By putting a stop to urban sprawl‚ suburban communities will transform into cities. Smart growth promotes this transformation‚ since it still promotes development in areas that are already developed‚ which is how cities
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Urban Consolidation in Liverpool CBD (Part 1) Stage 1: Liverpool is suburb located 32 km south-west of the Sydney central business district in the state of New South Wales‚ Australia. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of Liverpool. Liverpool Local Government Area (LAC) covers an area of 305 square kilometers in which is incredibly diverse and enriched with many heritage listings‚ one monument was the TAFE College which was built as the first
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The Nigeria Ecological Fund Office Aroboinosen Hillary Department of Agricultural and Bio-Resources Engineering‚ Federal University of Technology‚ Minna‚ Niger State‚ Nigeria E-mail:aroby_hillary@yahoo.com Abstract Nigeria has a total land area of 983‚213 km2 occupied by about 140 Million people: The interaction of these millions of people with their environment has left indelible mark on the landscape. Deforestation‚ desertification‚ flooding‚ erosion and all kinds of pollution as well
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mourning/afternoon fellow classmates and teacher‚I if you didn’t guess by now I’ll be talking about urban myths or otherwise known as urban legends. First I’ll be talking about what is a urban legend. Right away you think of the urban legend bloody Mary or now the infamous Slender-man‚ those are probably the most famous one of them I’ll be talking about throughout my speech‚ that one being bloody Mary. Urban myths really started as long ago as Vikings and before that the Chinese imperial armies. They
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otherwise of urban regeneration schemes in combating the causes and consequences of urban decline? (40 Marks) Urban decline is when an urban area begins to lose business therefore businesses close causing people to lose their jobs‚ so the population starts to look elsewhere and ultimately moves away. It causes the local economy to shrink as well as the population‚ buildings and public places becoming run down‚ therefore lowering the appeal of the area and the cycle continues. Urban regeneration
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Urban design theory the protection of watercourse corridors within a green network and their use in place making avoidance of new culverting and efforts to open existing culverted watercourses requiring sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) in new developments the use of Section 106 agreements – from the Town and Country Planning Act – or community infrastructure levy (CIL) to secure suitable surface water drainage arrangements e.g. regional SuDS facilities and improvements to watercourses.
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Introduction Urban tribes are made up by groups of people – usually young‚ with a distinct common identity: the same aesthetic codes‚ the same identity symbols‚ the same rules‚ the same language‚ the same music… A whole ideology! These tribes have many different ideologies: right-wing‚ left-wing‚ non-political or against globalization. Some of them are nearly extinct‚ and others in full expansion. But all of them are ruled by it own ideology. They usually meet in central‚ commercial or nightlife
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Finished on April 5 In the article‚ "Urban Sprawl‚ Global Warming and the Limits of Ecological Moderization"(2005)‚ Gonzalez argues that the rapid development of urban sprawl has been environmentally harmful due to the emissions of greenhouse gases and the narrow solution to global warming through further development of technology proposed by business groups. He criticizes the shortcomings of the business groups approach and states his own concept. Urban sprawl brings business corporates a great
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