pro-German than pro-French and therefore wouldn’t protest at the isolation. Therefore in fear of a future two-fronted war‚ Bismarck managed to bring Germany‚ Austria Hungary and Russia together to form the Dreikaiserbund also known as the league of 3 emperors‚ in 1872/3. The aim of this alliance was to maintain existing borders in Europe Fight and fight both socialism & republicanism‚ effectively slowly
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Summer Mountains Summer Mountain is an exquisite painting of a landscape in China. It is painted on a hand scroll made of silk with ink and pale colors. The painting is from the Northern Song dynasty 960-1127 in the 11th century. The painting was attributed to Qu Ding {Chinese‚ active ca. 1023-ca. 1056}("Attributed to Qu Ding: Summer Mountains (1973.120.1)". Included in this paper is why I choose this work‚ an assessments to its subject matter and content‚ and the works value in China and western
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This time period‚ and personal information about this Being resemble information we have for another Prophet‚ Krishna. Krishna’s tale as you will see later does suggest contact with Chinese people. Fu-Xi is known as the first Supreme Ruler and God-Emperor of China. He was born around 4952 to 5‚468 years ago. What is known about His birth shares details with virgin
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Dom Pedro I (1798-1834) was the first Emperor of Brazil and was also Dom Pedro IV‚ King of Portugal. He is best remembered as the man who declared Brazil independent from Portugal in 1822. He set himself up as Emperor of Brazil but returned to Portugal to claim the crown there after his father died‚ abdicating Brazil in favor of his young son Pedro II. He died young in 1834 at the age of 35. PEDRO I’S CHILDHOOD IN PORTUGAL Pedro de Alcântara Francisco António João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael
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Thousands of Jews were robbed and killed by these Crusaders‚ just because they were not Christians. Finally in the fall of 1096 the main Crusade left for Jerusalem. They went by different routes‚ some by land and some by sea‚ to Constantinople. Here the Emperor Alexius was quite surprised to see them and not altogether pleased. Would this army try to take over his own empire? But he sent them on towards Jerusalem. The Fatimids were still not worried‚ because they thought this was just a little army of Roman
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France c. England b. Spain d. All of these answers are correct. 4. The Cluny reform movement sought to a. remove the clergy from royal authority and strengthen the powers of the pope. b. strengthen the powers of the Holy Roman Emperor. c. rejoin the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches. d. abolish monasticism and promote clerical marriage. 5. One of the most important results of the Crusades was that a. permanent Christian kingdoms were established in
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When most couples today are thinking about kids‚ they wonder how many they should have. Some people want big families and others would rather have smaller ones. Then there are others that have no clue. They may worry about ‘the only child syndrome”‚ there are some people that believe it’s true. The question is ‘what is the only child syndrome? It’s a myth that dates back all the way to the late 1800s. When G. Stanley Hall said being an only child was “a disease all in itself.” Susan Newman‚ a social
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the Han Empire Liu Bang ruled the Empire very peacefully and restores unity to China‚ Bang established a centralized government‚ lowered taxes and softened punishments. Following Bang’s death Wudi ruled the Han empire and was known as the Martial Emperor because he wanted to expand China through wars‚ both Wudi and Bang were very successful leaders but after the death of Wudi china experienced many bad rulers and thus starting the fall of the Han Empire. Internal and external factors led to the decline
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on the abolishment of Western Japan. (History.com Staff‚ "Henry VIII"‚ 2009) He invaded the Bitchu province and took over the daimyo Mori Terumoto at Takamatsu. In mid the 1580’s‚ he had become the kampaku‚ meaning he was the chief minister to the Emperor. Soon in the 1590’s‚ he became the head of an alliance of daimyo. Soon enough‚ Toyotomi conquered Japan and became one of Japan’s greatest leaders. He passed away September
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Gunpowder- Chinese Invention Chinese taoist alchemists were the major force behind the early invention of gunpowder. Emperor Wu Di (156-87 B.C.) of the Han dynasty financed research done by the alchemists on the secrets of eternal life. The alchemists experimented with the sulphur and saltpeter heating the substances in order to transform them. The alchemist Wei Boyang wrote the Book of the Kinship of the Three detailing the experiments made by the alchemists. During the 8th century Tang dynasty
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