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How Was Totila Able to Sack Rome in AD 546
...t world, but one of the greatest cities of all time. For most of its early history, Rome was as safe as it was prosperous and cultured. It was threatened on n ...enable situation. <ref> Sinnigen, William G, and Arthur E. R. Boak. The History of Rome to A.D. 565. 6th ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1977), p. 460</ref>

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Did Egyptian President Gamal Nasser Protect the Copts
...rt, non-practicing and personally respected the rights of Egypt’s native Christian minority, the Copts. Despite his personally moderate views on religion, Nas ...i>Aegyptus. <ref> Nisan, Modechai. Minorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle and Self-Expression. Second Edition. (Jefferson, North Caro

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Great Gifts for History Lovers 2018
...friends and family can be tough, but if your friend or family member loves history these suggestions may be helpful. ...t to. Custer's Trials was the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for history.The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner (W.W.

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How did Savonarola influence the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
...ety <ref> Ruggiero, Guido. The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 648 < ...ed by the Church and committed to a political system that was based on the Christian scriptures.

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Revolutionary Deists: Early America's Rational Infidels - Book Review
...rines such as the Trinity and the Divinity of Jesus. Deists also condemned Christian ethics. The majority of Deists were hostile to Christianity as they viewed ...However, it could also be argued that Jefferson was as much an unorthodox Christian as a Deist after Jefferson Walters studies the poet Philip Freneau, whose p

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How Did the Ancient City of Memphis Rise to Prominence
...Memphis served as Egypt’s political capital throughout most of pharaonic history, with the exception of Thebes being the capital in the Eleventh, Seventeent ...for nobles and other important Egyptians to be buried throughout pharaonic history.

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How did smallpox and tuberculous force the Medial Corps Office of Indian Affairs to reform
...ndian policy including Indian Commissions, Congress, the Army, and various Christian Churches. Ultimately, the OIA was a weak, decentralized agency which was ...ians, doctors were still fairly infrequent on Indian agencies in its early history. Agencies, especially early in the OIA’s existence, depended on missiona

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Where Did Different Christmas Traditions Come From
...s his origin from Saint Nicholas but other traditions that may also be pre-Christian influenced the concept.]]__NOTOC__ In 1809, Washington Irving's History of New York merged different traditions of the English Father Christmas

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Did the Biblical Exodus Actually Happen
...epresents one of the most fundamental aspects of Jewish religion and early history and is also recognized as an important event by Christians and Muslims. Bey ...on: Routledge, 2010), p. 417</ref> The Old Testament heavily documents the history of the Hebrews’ sojourn in and exodus from Egypt, which although historic

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How Historically Accurate is the movie Gangs of New York
...prostitution in the city. <ref>Czitrom, Daniel. "Gangs of New York." Labor History 44, no. 3 (2003): 301-304 </ref> Gambling and bare-knuckle boxing were com ...but in fact, the area by the 1860s had significantly improved. Evangelical Christian missionaries concerned with the Five Points' sinfulness had managed to pers

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How accurate is the movie J. Edgar
...BI targeted many organizations such as the Black Panthers and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on the orders of Hoover.<ref> Gentry, p 302 </ref> Fried, Albert, ed. McCarthyism: The great American red scare: A documentary history (Oxford University Press, USA, 1997).

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The American Political Tradition - Book Review
...e oft-mentioned-but-rarely-observed “educated general interest reader of history” 70 years after its publication. Trends in historiography may have left H ...h a burden of wartime leadership that he shouldered with a tragic, vaguely Christian sense of responsibility. (If Lincoln was auditioning to be Christ, he was a

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The Visible Saints - Book Review
[[File:Visible_Saints.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea by Edmund S. Morgan]] The Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea by Edward S Morgan. Publisher: Martino Fine Books (Novemb

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How did Petrarch influence the Renaissance
...and of course, the Black Death, the most lethal pandemic known in European history. However, despite these disasters, there were dramatic changes in European ...h as reason, and argued that this world had worth and meaning, contrary to Christian teachings. It taught that human agency could improve society and give digni

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The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema - Book Review
...ces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy] edited by Christian Rogowski]] ...ces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy] edited by Christian Rogowski is an anthology of essays dedicated to showing the tremendous vari

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Is the Film Exodus: Gods and Kings Historically Accurate
The 2014 film, Exodus: Gods and Kings, starring Christian Bale in the lead role as Moses, is a fictional take on some historical even ...ed each plague separately, assigning logical explanations to each based on history, anthropology, geography, and biology. More recently, Egyptologist Kenneth

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How did the wars of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, change history
...abitants regarded themselves as Romans. One of the greatest figures in the history of this Empire is the Emperor Justinian (483-565). He is regularly known as ...r, the conquests of Justinian in Italy and Africa later helped to save the Christian realm during the Arab and Persian wars. The Emperor’s wars of reconques

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How historically accurate is the movie the Kingdom of Heaven
...ee religious: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.<ref> Runciman, Steve. A History of the Crusades, vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem (Cambridge, Cambridg ...While the Battle of Hattin is one of the most significant battles in world history, it was a one-sided slaughter. Scott does not spend much time on the Hattin

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What Were the Impacts of the Maccabean Rebellion on the Ancient Near East
...rice, Simon. “The History of the Hellenistic Period.” In The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World. Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Gr ...their reigns. <ref> Bryce, Trevor. Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pgs. 168-73</ref>

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How did Dante influence the Renaissance
...100 cantos. The Comedy is an imagined account of Dante’s journey in the Christian afterlife. The poem is divided into the Inferno which depicts hell, then Pu Unlike conventional Christian morality, he did not think that it was wrong to be happy and to enjoy this

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Was Camelot based on a real place
...Camelot. In brief, they portrayed Camelot as a fantastic fortress, with a Christian Cathedral, magnificent halls, palaces, and of course, the Round Table. ...press their lady-loves. In the medieval stories, Camelot is portrayed as a Christian city whose population was all noble and chivalrous. There was a dark side t

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Were the Knights of the Round Table real figures
...he greatest castles in England, and it played an essential part in English history. It was originally built by William the Conqueror and later rebuilt by Henr ...gs for meetings. From this practice, there emerged the story of a group of Christian knights. However, the theory that abandoned Roman amphitheaters inspired th

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Why did France side with the American Colonies during the American Revolution
The most Christian King and the united States of North America, to wit, New Hampshire, Massach The Most Christian King renounces for ever the possession of the Islands of Bermudas as well a

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How did the Civil Rights Movement Begin
...tory. It is one subject that is almost universally encountered in American history classrooms. While the general narrative of protest leading to massive chang As stated in [[What is the History of Civil Rights Legislation in the United States?]], much of what constitut

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Are the travels of Marco Polo fact or fiction
{{#dpl:category=Renaissance History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} Then there is the historically inaccurate story of a great Christian ruler in Asia, who was called Prester John. In some passages of the narrati

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What is the History of Civil Rights Legislation in the United States
...of civil rights has a much longer and complicated history. The legislative history of civil rights reveals the ways in which citizenship was broadened to not ...ivists that engaged Jim Crow face-to-face. Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which formed in the wake of the 1956 Montgome

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What was the Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957
...st has abruptly reached a new and critical stage in its long and important history. In past decades many of the countries in that area were not fully self-gov ...terial. The Middle East is the birthplace of three great religions-Moslem, Christian and Hebrew. Mecca and Jerusalem are more than places on the map. They symbo

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Landmark Legal Cases: Roe v. Wade (1973)
...place some emphasis upon, medical and medical-legal history and what that history reveals about man's attitudes toward the abortion procedure over the centur ...vey, in several aspects, the history of abortion, for such insight as that history may afford us, and then to examine the state purposes and interests behind

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Was Merlin based on a real person
...es, and Scotland. At this time, popularly known as the Dark Ages, many pre-Christian practices remained, and much of the population was still half-pagan. There ...o one fixed version of the story of Merlin. He is first mentioned in the ''History of the Kings of Britain'' by Geoffrey de Monmouth. The same author then wro

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Was Robinson Crusoe based on a real person
...eat books: With some serious reflections on Robinson Crusoe." New Literary History 39, no. 2 (2008): 335-353</ref> ...of Robinson Crusoe. One possible model for the most famous castaway in the history of literature was the rebel and surgeon Henry Pitman. He was the personal p

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How did the Second Great Awakening change the United States
...d self-determination. The Second Great Awakening fundamentally changed the Christian faith in America. ...t Christians needed to improve the world around them in concert with their Christian beliefs. Finney's speeches included a call to action, and many people took

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Why did the United States free the African captives on the Spanish schooner Amistad
To argue against the U.S. Government for the Africans’ freedom, the Christian Missionary Association convinced former President and Secretary of State Jo * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]

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What happened to the ark of the covenant
====The history of the ark of the covenant==== The ark is tied up with the early history of the Jewish people, and for many centuries it was the symbol of their nat

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The Coming of the French Revolution - Book Review
...h century. While philosophical, Arendt’s discourse anchors itself in the history of the two of the most colossal political and social events of the Western ...itation to a life of courage. And sometimes heroism, as the freedom of the Christian is an invitation to a life of sainthood

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Who was the first American diplomat to meet with Lenin
[[File:William_C._Bullitt_cph.3b11701.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|William Christian Bulliet in 1937 after he finished as the first US Ambassador to the Soviet In March of 1919, William Christian Bullitt, an attaché to the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Conference a

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How Did the Merovingian Dynasty Impact European History
===Early Frankish History=== ...d the Roman Frontier: The Case of Frankish Origins.” Journal of World History. 4 (1993) p. 277</ref> The Salians were the more dominant of the two tr

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How historically accurate is Martin Scorsese's movie Silence
...love. It is based on a novel by Shūsaku Endō, which narrated the fate of Christian missionaries in Japan in the 17th century. ...a Dutch trader, that Father Ferreira had apostatized and had renounced his Christian faith. When this is related to his two pupils Sebastião Rodrigues (Andrew

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How did the Sepoy Rebellion (Indian Mutiny) change India
One of the most important events in Indian history was the Indian Mutiny of 1857, also known as the First War for Independence ...itories. <ref> Bandyopadhyay, Sekhara (2004), From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India, New Delhi: Orient Longman, p. 523</ref>

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How Historically Accurate is the Rise of Empires: Ottoman Series
...ultan of the Ottoman Empire, who tries to create a name for himself in the history books by conquering the famed Byzantine capital of Constantinople, which ha ...d known Serbian in addition to his native Turkish. He was also educated in history as part of his training to become Sultan.

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How did the Phoenicians contribute to western civilization
The Phoenicians emerged in history about 1800 BC, during the Bronze Age. They occupied a narrow strip of coas ...em. This alphabet was one of the most important inventions in all of human history. It was different from hieroglyphs, used by many societies in the Levant, a

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What was Raphael's contribution to the Renaissance
Raphael’s work was revolutionary, and he changed the history of art in this epoch both in Italy and beyond. Indeed, he inspired new arti ...Michelangelo, Sebastiano: High Renaissance Rivalry." Source: Notes in the History of Art 3, no. 2 (1984): 60-68</ref>

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How Did Writing Evolve in Ancient Egypt
...The Emergence of the Egyptian State (c. 3200-2686 BC).” In The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Edited by Ian Shaw. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ...The Emergence of the Egyptian State (c. 3200-2686 BC).” In The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Edited by Ian Shaw. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

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How Did the Vikings Convert to Christianity
...the early Viking rulers converted due to political and economic ties with Christian Europe and then forced their subjects to follow suit. The conversion proces ====Denmark and the First Christian Missions====

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What is the history of apocalyptic mythologies
...meet once again, and two humans will repopulate the world. Similar to the Christian apocalypse, there will be a series of signs about the end times. First, the ...means a god or gods would not be happy and that alone could end the world. Christian and Islamic beliefs are more similar to the Zoroastrian belief of end times

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How Did the Cumans Influence the Fourth Crusade
...1204) was unlike any crusade before or after it because instead of pitting Christian crusaders against Muslim armies, it was a war between the forces of Western ...e Byzantine Empire. Although Innocent recognized Byzantium as a legitimate Christian kingdom and initially threatened any Western crusaders with ex-communicatio

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Why did Romulus kill Remus
The myth dates back to the early history of Rome. There is no evidence concerning the historicity of the Romulus and Throughout their history, the Romans were fascinated by the myth, and it was recorded in annals and

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What was the Comstock Act
...ission—which was created by the Young Men’s Christian Association. The Christian Commission sent missionaries to battlefields to help soldiers remain moral. Andrea Tone, ''Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America'' (New York: Hill & Wang, 2002)

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What is the story of Atlas in Classical Mythology
...ronus and other Titans imprisoned in Tartus, an underworld realm, like the Christian idea of hell <ref>Hesiod, Theogony, iv</ref>. However, it seems that the gr ...s new collection the first geographer Atlas <ref> Keuning, J. (1947). "The History of an Atlas: Mercator. Hondius". Imago Mundi. 4 (1): 37–62</ref>.

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Who was Hecate - the Greek goddess of magic, witches and the occult
...he is shown holding the keys to Tartaros, which can be approximated to the Christian hell <ref>Stratton et al., p. 56</ref>. Over time, she became along with He ...abandoned and often destroyed by Christians<ref> Ankarloo, et al. Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Greece and Rome to Late Antiquity (Londo

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Why was St. Augustine so important in Christian History?
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