Explain why the Arab invasions of 710 and 711 were so successful. In answering this question we must first appreciate the difficulty historians face in discovering the real truth of the early Arab invasions‚ a fact well demonstrated in the varying estimates of Arab invasion forces (ranging from 1‚700-9000 in current publications). Scant contemporary evidence exists beyond a short narrative present in a Spanish chronicle of 754‚ a vital surviving Islamic administrative document of the time‚ and
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POPE AS A SATIRIST Satire is a literary genre‚ usually meant to be funny. The word ‘Satire’ was defined by Richard Garnett as‚ The expression in adequate terms of the sense of amusement or disgust excited by the ridiculous or unseemly‚ provided the humour is a distinctly recognized element and the utterance is inverted with literary form. Without humour satire is invective‚ without literary form‚ it is mere clownish jeering. (Encyclopedia Britannica 14th ed. vol. 20 p. 5) Satire is defined by Long
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Rather than just believe in something because an authority (church‚ political authority‚ society) claimed it to be true‚ these men and women set out to find the truth through reason‚ to provide explanations for all actions and events. Both Alexander Pope and Voltaire discuss some of the more common questions posed during the Enlightenment: What is the nature of humanity and what is our role in the greater picture of the universe? Pope argues that everything in the universe‚ whether it is good or evil
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Pope Leo the great (440-461 AD) is famous for his Tome of Leo document‚ The Council of Chalcedon‚ and he illuminated the conformist definition of Jesus’ being as the religious states of two beings- divine and human. Despite all of this‚ Pope Leo the Great is most famous for his persuasion of the crude Attila the Hun (434-453 AD) to not invade Italy in 452 AD. The emperors usually paid off barbaric tribes to not invade them but this further gave reason for the tribes to invade Western Europe. The
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Why is religion so diverse? I believe that one ought to know the definition(s) of religion and diversity before they can even begin to find the answer(s) to the above question. Religion is the belief in‚ worship of‚ or obedience to a supernatural power or powers considered to be divine or have control of human destiny. Religion is an organized collection of beliefs‚ cultural system‚ and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Diversity is a term used broadly to refer to
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Nicaragua Most Nicaraguans are mestizos. That is that they have white and Indian ancestors. There way of life is somewhat similar to that of Spanish Americans in other Central American countries. Most people belong to the Roman Catholic Church and speak Spanish. Most of Nicaragua’s people are poor farmers. Many of those in the Pacific Region are peasants who work on their own farms‚ cooperatives‚ state farms‚ or large private farms. In warmer areas‚ agriculture workers live in metal
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of the nostalgic classical Greece and Roman antiquity. This period was defined by many famous artists from Leonardo Da Vinci to Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni‚ political figures like Niccolò Machiavelli and individuals like Petrarch who brought humanism into the European fold. However in the Renaissance period a pope in Rome determined to advance the Papal State into this Renaissance and determine to get the truth of his perspection to europe’s nobility was underlooked by
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Pope Clement VII Giulio de’ Medici was born in the exquisite city of Florence‚ Italy on May 26‚ 1478. He was the son of Fioretta Gorini‚ and the prevailing Giuliano de’ Medici whom was in fact one of the pronounced leaders of Florence during the late 1400’s. Giuliano de’ Medici was brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent and was recognized as the “co-ruler” of Florence in his time. After the tragic assassination of his father and death of his mother‚ Giulio de’ Medici was then taken in and educated
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script people want to believe. So‚ history by its nature is a subject based on interpretation. As man and time changes‚ so do stories and tales that include history. Therefore it is necessary for students to make and justify decisions about the relative authenticity of historical texts. History can be compared to the situation in class where the teacher whispers a sentence into a student ’s ear‚ and then the student is to repeat the sentence to the next student and so on until the last student hears
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The Catholic Church The Church -from the Latin word “ecclesia” and from the Greek word “ek- kalein” which means convocation or assembly -It designates assembly of the people for the religious purpose. -In Christian usage‚ the word “church” The Church in God’s Plan -God the Father created the whole universe‚ and chose to raise up men to share in his own divine life. -God created the world for the sake of communion with his divine life‚ a communion brought about by the convocation of men
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