The ship of the line was the last of the sailing wooden warships. A ship of the line is a ship that fit the standard of a ship deemed suitable to sail in the line of battle. It evolved during the 17th century‚ and significant advancements were made during the Anglo-Dutch wars. By 1700‚ the ship of the line reached the form it would retain until wooden sailing ships were done away with entirely in the 1830s. It was during this era that the English grew to become a great naval power through the use
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Absolutism in Europe changed the role of nobility completely in every country. For example‚ in France‚ nobles lost a lot of their power due to Louis XIV and his predecessors; also‚ in Eastern Europe‚ rulers such as Frederick William of Prussia changed the status of the nobility with his polices. In France‚ starting with Henry IV‚ the status of nobility started to fall when Henry started the idea of "nobles of the robe" in which middle class citizens could buy nobility from the king.
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ENGLİSGH LİTERATURE IN THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES Social ‚ political‚ cultural‚ religious‚ and historical background The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are the period of the European Renaissance or four great transforming movement of European history. This impulse by which the medieval society of scholasticism‚ feudalism‚ and chivalry was to be made over into what we call the modern world came first from Italy. Italy‚ like the rest of the Roman Empire‚ had been
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Civilized Natives In the 16th century‚ the ethnocentric Europeans believed that Natives weren’t civilized and cultured people. “They caused a huge genocide on the Aboriginal people; leaving only around 800 000 Aboriginal Canadian citizens today.” (Manjikian‚ notes‚ 2013) Unfortunately‚ the Europeans were wrong. The Natives were very civilized and cultured human beings. This can be proven by multiple factors but only three will be analyzed: religion‚ art and creation stories. First of all‚ Natives
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LAGOS ANGLICAN SEMINARY 17 BROAD STREET LAGOS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE 16TH CENTURY REFORMATION IN EUROPE WRITTEN BY: OSHISANYA JACOB COURSE: THE REFORMATION OCTOBER 2013 INTRODUCTION The reformation was the 16th century radical movement to reform the religious practices in the Western Christendom. The major target of reformation was to restructure the Roman Catholic which as at then had dominated the political‚ religious and economic
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Archimedes found that Pi was between 3 10/70 and 3 10/71. Ptolemy was the next researcher. In 150 AD‚ he calculated pi to 3.1416. In 480‚ Zu Chongzhi calculated pi to seven decimal places. In 1665‚ Isaac Newton calculated it to 16 places. In the 17th century pi began being called the Ludolphian number after Ludolph van Ceulen‚ a German mathematician. He calculated pi to 35 places. The first person to use the Greek letter was a Welsh mathematician William Jones‚ in 1706. People use pi everyday
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Equal Protection in Criminal Punishment The 14th Amendment articulates that no State shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” (Sullivan and Gunther 486). It is nearly impossible though‚ for the equal treatment of all persons‚ since every law affects people differently. “This command cannot literally require equal treatment of all persons‚ since almost all laws classify in some way‚ by imposing burdens on or granting benefits to some people and not others”
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Bills of Exchange‚ Centralized Banking and Pawning The rise of intercontinental trade between Europe‚ Africa and the Americas radically changed European markets and led to an enormous commercial expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. What did such a world look like? Regular scheduled cargo ships from the Americas arrived at European ports‚ increasing the supply of luxury goods such as rum‚ sugar‚ mahogany and tobacco. Slave ships regularly sailed for and to Africa in search of human
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17th-century English colonial architecture resembles the late medieval forms that survived in rural England. Houses were built in a range of sizes. Gables‚ overhangs‚ and lack of symmetry reflected the late medieval style of Europe. In Virginia and Maryland‚ brick construction was preferred for the typically story and a half homes with chimneys at both ends and a more nearly symmetrical facade. Aside from fortifications‚ the principal nondomestic structures in the 17th-century colonies were churches
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a brand being burned into the side of someone’s face for stealing an apple. This is one of the many harsh punishments given in 18th century England. Crime was not taken lightly‚ and criminals were made sure to be punished. Compared to modern day England‚ punishments for any crime were unrelenting. These punishments were even made for the public to watch. In 18th century England‚ punishments were dictated based on the established laws‚ the gender of the accused‚ and how severe the crime. To begin
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