Advanced Placement European History Unit 5 – Absolutism and State-building in the 17th Century Identifications People places events ideas institutions arts Social Phenomena Witches and witchcraft- witchcraft affected many lives of Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Witchcraft was thought to be connected with the devil therefore making witchcraft heresy. Witch trials- More than 100‚000 people were prosecuted throughout Europe for witchcraft during the sixteenth
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When people usually think of women’s status in the Joseon dynasty‚ a first thing that come up to their mind is the inequality of gender. This is essentially true‚ but not from the very start. Unbelievably in the early Joseon dynasty‚ women’s status was relatively equal to those of men like the Koryo dynasty. But women’s rights have slowly went through a process of regression and by end of the dynasty‚ Joseon was recognized as a most strictly idealistic Confucianism country that seriously suppressed
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There are several major Han dynasty inventions that have been famously credited to this period. These inventions have in one way or another shaped the way our world is lived in right now. The first and perhaps the most popular is the invention of the paper making process during the Han dynasty. Although historians claim that the oldest piece of wrapping paper can be traced back to the Chinese during the 2nd BCE‚ the process of making paper was invented during the Han period. The eunuch Cai Lun was
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of South-Eastern Europe. The Balkans had been part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries. However as the twentieth century dawned the Ottoman Empire was in trouble. Known as “the sick man of Europe” the Ottomans were confronted by internal and external problems. Internally the growth of nationalism caused its subject peoples‚ Serbs‚ Greeks‚ Bulgarians and many others to seek independence and break away from the Ottoman Empire. With the Ottoman Empire in retreat a power vacuum was created. This vacuum
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the development in the parts of the Ottoman Empire that today make up Turkey. This questions requires you to discuss the allied occupation‚ the Sultan’s decisions‚ the resistance‚ the resistance‚ rise of Mustafa Kemal‚ the grand national assembly…. All the way through to the treaty of Lausanne. After the End of World War I‚ the former Ottoman Empire was occupied by Allied forces who occupied the entire area of modern day Turkey. The former Sultan of Ottoman Empire Mehmet VI Vahideddin had lost
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factors that inhibited the development of long-distance exchange networks in the Americas. Chapter 9 1. Discuss the ways in which the Tang and Song Dynasties were regarded as the “Golden Age of Chinese Achievement.” Culturally: Politically: Economically: 2. In what ways did women’s lives change during the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties? 3. Who were the Xiongnu‚ the Uighurs‚ the Khitan‚ and the Jurchen in relation to the Chinese ? Xiongnu: Uighurs: Khitan and Jurchen: 4. In
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The fall of the Qing dynasty was caused by internal changes within the dynasty‚ peasant revolts‚ the rise of Sun Yat-Sen and overall western influence. What happens when there is a trade imbalance between two major trading countries? Just ask Great Britain and China. It’s hard to get by when the country you need goods from does not really need to trade goods with you. This is what happened with Great Britain and the Qing Dynasty. There was a high demand for China’s tea in Great Britain but a low
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Change-Over-Time Essay These are some general issues with the essays: 1. Choice of region for the topic made it difficult to provide strong historical evidence. Certain regions provided more opportunity for discussion than others. 2. Placed emphasis of essay on the wrong theme (i.e. wrote more about the social aspects when your topic was political). 3. Discussed evidence out of chronological order. It is much easier to trace cause and effect and continuity and change patterns
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In early 1917 the Romanov Dynasty had 65 members‚ 18 of whom were killed by the Bolsheviks. The remaining 47 members were exiled abroad."[3] In 1924‚ Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich‚ the direct male-line patrilineal descendant of Alexander II of Russia‚ claimed the headship of the defunct Imperial House of Russia. Since 1991‚ the succession to the former Russian throne has been disputed over validity of marriages. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia claims to hold the title of Empress in pretense
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knowing that there would be no possibility for the Bourbon dynasty to get power in Napoleon’s rule. However‚ no one knew what giving such amount of power to one man could cause. During Napoleon’s reign‚ goals of the French Revolution were both lost and achieved. To begin with‚ Napoleon’s rule was absolute monarchy. One of the main goals of the French Revolution was to destroy the monarchy‚ which the Bourbon dynasty continued over years‚ and establish a true democracy. French
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