For decades‚ we often heard‚ in print and broadcast media‚ outcries banning political dynasty in local and national level political posts and calling for national legislators to enact an enabling law espousing the critical issue which many assert “detrimental to nation’s progress and a blight of democracy”. The term is also known as oligarchy‚ an equivalent term in political science and is coined to describe a practice‚ or even a tradition referring to family members or people within the same bloodline
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1) The Shapes of Human Communities 1. In 1500‚ the world had all different societies‚ gatherers and hunters to empires‚ but it was different 2. Paleolithic Persistence a) gathering and hunting societies (Paleolithic peoples) still existed throughout the world but they had changed over time b) b. had new & improved technologies and ideas‚ e.g.‚ outrigger canoes‚ fish hooks‚ etc (had not adopted agriculture) c) exchanged goods over hundreds of miles and developed
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the Crusaders was to free the Holy Land from Muslim control. An important result of the Crusades was- a. The accomplishment of returning the Holy Land to Christian control b. Trade routes were established and new markets opened up c. That the Ottoman Empire was established d. The English and French monarchies weakened 3. One consequence of the fall of Rome for Western Europe was- a. Increased trade with China b. A decrease in literacy and knowledge of the world and the past c. The Viking
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Dynasties of China population consist majorly of the working class. The patriarchal Chow Dynasty had over thrown the matriarchal Shang’s and male rule became hereditary. The patriarch’s decision was absolute although class and families owned property in common. “Serfs were taxed as property‚ so many emancipated because of major tax assessments between 600 and 400 B.C.E” (68). Those who emancipated were left to fend for themselves causing many to turn to the state for help. In 500 B.C.E priest encouraged
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Jida Mascardo INTRODUCTION Political dynasties in the Philippine Politics in the Philippines has been under the control of a few notable families. It is normal for a politician ’s son‚ wife‚ brother‚ or other kinsman‚ to run for the same or other government office. The term coined by Filipinos to describe this practice is "Political dynasty"‚ the equivalent of anoligarchy in political science. One can trace its roots from the Spanish colonial
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BOOK REVIEW THE RULE MAKERS HOW THE WEALTHY AND WELL BORN DOMINATE CONGRESS The congress or the House of Representatives and the Senate or the upper house are the two components of the legislative branch of the Philippine government. They are meant to pass bills‚ create laws‚ and approve budgets that benefit their constituents and the nation as a whole. In theory‚ this is the ideal upon which they were built‚ they would legislate for the people to best serve them and to ensure the
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multiple times throughout its lifetime. In 1204 it was a Roman Catholic cathedral. Then in 1261 it was an Eastern Orthodox cathedral‚ but eventually became a mosque for Muslim worship from 1453 to 1931. In 1453‚ Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks‚ this meant an end to Christian belief within the walls of the church. The bells‚ altar‚ and other religious artifacts were removed‚ while all the mosaics that depicted Jesus‚ Mother Mary‚ and other symbolic figures were plastered over. “Famous
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Recently a man named John Cohn from T.E.C. (Time Exploration and Co.) took a trip in time back to the Black Sea in 335 CE‚ home of the Byzantine Empire. He had a lot to say about his trip and about the time period he was lucky enough to witness. Cohn states that the Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire‚ and began around 330 CE. Here is some more of what he said during our interview: “The Empire was generally concentrated around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. The time when the
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It’s a shame that “Byzantine‚” when not used in reference to the Eastern Roman Empire‚ tends to have a negative connotation. Not only did the Byzantine Empire last for over a thousand years‚ it reached out so far that countries from Libya to Bulgaria and Slovenia to Egypt can claim a legacy from it‚ keeping the fallen West safe from invading barbarians until the time of its own spectacular decline. When you realize that‚ it is especially shameful that the West no longer considered the Eastern Roman
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of their empire and were forced to accelerate the breakup of their empire by conceding territories to better placed royal families like the Fatmadids of Egypt8. In the south‚ Abbasid rulers began to be replaced by the Iranian Shiite and Turkish dynasties including the Shia Builds‚ the Seljuk Turks and the Empire of Khwarazm. The breakup of the Abbasid empire thus led to the formation of local nation states instead of the centralised system of governance that had become the norm. With the new political
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