The Song of Roland: Insight Into Another World Historians have now been able to date the first manuscripts of The Song of Roland as far back as the 11th century CE (1060 CE)- to be more specific‚ 1130 CE. However‚ some historians have dated the poem itself back to 1060 CE‚ but the most widely accepted date has been 1098 CE. If you take a look into the historical events of this time‚ you will see that‚ by this time the First Crusade- which began in 1096 CE and ended in 1098 CE- was over
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Although an autocrat‚ Napoleon is revered by many as the son of the French Revolution as he single-handedly implemented the ideas of “Liberty‚ Equality and Fraternity”. Napoleon implemented the ideologies of French Revolution which were derived from the Enlightenment by introducing the Napoleonic Code‚ lycee and baculerrate education‚ constitutions and meritocracy. These reforms could have only been implemented by a strong ruler with the power of the modern state tailored to suit his motives of maintaining
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The French Revolution that took place from 1789 to 1799 was a crucial period in the history of French‚ European and Western Civilizations. The uprising that brought the regime of King Louis XVI to its end is known as the French Revolution. This was the phase‚ when absolute monarchy was overthrown and Republicanism took its place. During the French Revolution‚ the Roman Catholic Church also underwent a radical restructuring. The First Republic fell to a coup d’etat. A coup d’Etat is the sudden
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The world from 1760 and 1914 went through important events. Three of them are the most important and stand out the most—industrialization‚ political disorder‚ and diffusing Western ideas to other places‚ like the United States. Enlightenment thinkers wished to change the government by basing it on something like that of a democracy (voting). Others wanted change economically and technologically. They wished for a policy to encourage industry. In commercialization‚ business people improved tremendously
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economical‚ and social aspects‚ such as in their unity‚ principles‚ and trade. Post Classical Western Europe and Post Classical Sub Saharan Africa had differences and similarities in their political organization. SSA used stateless societies‚ while manorialism and feudalism were used in Western Europe. Western Europe was unified and controlled by Christianity and the Catholic Church and Africa relied on their diverse societies and states that were not unified at all. Both civilizations had a single ruler
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The Dark Ages In this paper‚ I will talk about how The Middle Ages‚ also known as the Dark Ages‚ was considered to be a time of death‚ disease and despair. Just as the name the “Dark Ages” advocates‚ this era of European history appeared to be bounded by gloom and desperateness. Unfortunately‚ most of the people only see this side of the Middle Ages when‚ in fact‚ the Middle Ages was a far more significant era. Mainly during the late Middle Ages‚ one can find a alteration in orthodox social structure
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ultimately lead to the Great Schism. The Christian Church split into the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. Along with religious differences‚ Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire had extremely different economies. Practices of manorialism lead to an agricultural base economy with little outside trading of Europe‚ while the Byzantine Empire became the wealthiest empire in Europe because of Constantinople. Constantinople was the major trading stop in Europe on the Silk Road and was
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A feudal manor gave its kingdom the military might that it required through the bribery of soldiers and the desperation for a strong army. Manors provided a relatively stable‚ and reliable army for the country. Since a manor had the peasant class busy with work‚ and was in excellent economic shape‚ not every social class needed to work. This gave knights the time to train properly and fight when needed (A. Smith 1). Knights were also sometimes given large pieces of land‚ and peasant workers‚ as incentive
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Throughout recent history there have been two ways for a nation to govern its economy that have stood out‚ Communism and Capitalism. While Capitalism is more of an economic principle‚ Communism stands as more of a system for governance of a nation as a whole. Communism’s socioeconomic structure is what allows for a comparison of the two to be drawn. Communism relies on an economic factor of Socialism‚ which is the spread of wealth‚ production‚ and means of production equally by the government. Capitalism
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western Germany Viking invasions continued West’s weakness Scandinavia Ireland to Sicily Reading and writing kept in hierarchy and monasteries of the Catholic church copied older manuscripts The Manorial System: Obligations and Allegiances Manorialism the system of economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant labors originated in the later Roman Empire strengthened by decline of trade and lack of larger political structures Serfs agricultural workers who received
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