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  • The Byzantine Empire, also known as New Rome, was influential in Europe's history and culture during the Middle Ages. By the 15th century, the Empire was in Byzantium and Italy had a long and complicated history. In the 6th century, Emperor Justinian reconquered much of the peninsulas f
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  • The history of summer camps has in the United States has its origin in the evolution of ====Early History of Summer Camps====
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  • ...g=dailyh0c-20&linkId=6f56d7a26bd2ff61646352141eaed877 The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character]''. 12. [pr.]. Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press. ...97b0beeb1c7b0c02" Tree of Life: An Archaeological Study]''. Studies in the History of Religion. Brill.</ref>
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  • ...ethods of risk sharing in early insurance in China, see: Eeckhoudt, Louis, Christian Gollier, and Harris Schlesinger. 2005. ''Economic and Financial Decisions u ...insurance developed in Venice, see: Madden, Thomas F. 2013. Venice: A New History. New York: Penguin Books. For information on Genoa and its form of insuranc
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  • ...n designs to new forms that attempted to break away from Roman influences. Christian church architecture indicates the cultural influences on Christianity but a ...ngest continuously-used buildings in the world given its conversion into a Christian church.<ref>For information about early churches converted from old pagan t
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  • ...dailyh0c-20&linkId=cc66c7ad16506b01ae1292a0e287e33a An Economic and Social History of The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914]''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ...nvincible, were consistently defeated and the Empire lost territory. Their Christian adversaries slowly dismembered the Empire and that survival of the empire w
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  • ...Adriatic Sea, sometime in the 5th century AD.<ref>Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1982), p 13</ref> Over time, several settl ...me republic and the Greek Orthodox Empire.<ref> Ferraro, Joanne M. Venice: History of the Floating City (Cambridge University Press; 2012), p 145</ref>
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  • ...iphs gradually incorporated elements of Jewish, Greek, Roman, Persian, and Christian church law into Sharia law. The Umayyad caliphs were the first to appoint I *[[American Legal History Top Ten Booklist]]
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  • ...idered a Slavic nation. Russia considered itself to be the defender of the Christian Slavs against the Muslim Ottomans.<ref>Taylor, p. 167</ref> ...gory:Diplomatic History]] [[Category:European History]] [[Category:British History]]
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  • ...f the Renaissance and the end of one of the most creative periods in human history. ...dde8856871bdd69f392194f543 The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 648.</ref> Th
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  • ...-Century America,” in ''The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine'', ed. Moris J. Vogel and Charles E. Rosenburg, (Phila ...pulled by the same fervor that led to the creation of many new and unique Christian faiths during the Second Great Awakening. Like those assorted faiths, some
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  • ...tatorships or Marxist states. Nevertheless, socialism has a long political history in the United States and has been, at times, influential in American politi ...Missouri are two such examples. Some of these communities were inspired by Christian beliefs and socialism of collective action, while others were inspired by G
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  • ...e think of museums as areas that display the past, our culture, or natural history of our world. This certainly has developed to be the modern norm; however, ...past that connected Babylonian civilization to the past, showing its long history, and bringing objects of the gods back to the world. The uncovered objects
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  • Len Travers is professor of history at the Univesity of Massachusetts Dartmouth and he is also the author of [h ...of high drama and make household names for British, Canadian, and American history: James Wolfe, the Marquis de Montcalm, George Washington.
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  • The color line was receding to history, but racial intolerance and discrimination were not. During that 1947 seaso ...ing serving on the board of directors until 1967. He spoke to the Southern Christian Leadership Council in 1962 and was in attendance at the 1963 March on Washi
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  • ...on could be described as a Christian and wanted the United States to be a Christian nation. Ultimately, the debate could not overcome the 140 character limitat ...fathers were and whether the United States was founded as an explicitly “Christian” nation. Today, the founding documents of the United States are viewed by
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  • ...Giovanni, John R. Catan, and Giovanni Reale. 1990. Plato and Aristotle. A History of Ancient Philosophy, Giovanni Reale ; 2. Albany, NY: State Univ. of New ...y.<ref>For more on Arcesilaus, see: Algra, Keimpe, ed. 2005. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge U
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  • ...temperate, and barbarian.’”<ref>Jay P. Dolan, ''The Irish Americans: A History'' (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), 62.</ref>Most Irishmen in the U.S. we ...er remarked, “There goes a load of Irish rubbish out of the city.”<ref>Christian G. Samito, ''Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African America
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  • ==Early History== ...the early games of basketball, see: Bjarkman, P.C. (2000) The biographical history of basketball: more than 500 portraits of the most significant on-and off-c
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  • ...://uwpress.wisc.edu/index.html University of Wisconsin Press] examines the history of surveillance in the United States and grapples with these problems. He e ...sp?id=506 Gregory] has written pieces published by <i>The Atlantic</i>, <i>Christian Science Monitor</i>, <i>Salon</i>, <i>Reason</i>, and many others, and auth
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  • ...e the end of the Late Period, while others extend the period well into the Christian Era, often to the end of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476. This current b ...rstand ancient Egypt’s Late Period – or any period in ancient Egyptian history for that matter – will fall short if the textual/historiographical eviden
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  • ...ag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e925de1a38e65c004f8636c9607711fa Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes].</i> (Yale University Press, 1997), p. 211</ref> By 1378 the ...56b05145ae9b0f3f47eee55fa1 The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento]</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2015). 648 pp </ref>
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  • ...nce of hospitals is not only ancient but it also evolved through a complex history. Hospitals were seen as a way to address healthcare in increasingly urban s ...ere edicts to now build dedicated hospitals. This was largely motivated by Christian interests in healing in relation to religious practices and following New T
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  • ..., Vito. "Ho, mo, Humanus, and the Meanings of Humanism," <i>Journal of the History of Ideas 46 </i> (vol. 2, April – June 1985), p 178</ref> The Renaissance ...naissance is often seen as a secular and even pagan movement that was anti-Christian in many ways. This view was certainly true in Italy, the birthplace of the
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  • ...y task, here are the ten best books that try to make sense of this complex history. ...563&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c5f79436e48ccd70fe128e130224ab49 A History of God]</i>. London: Vintage.: The book is somewhat more narrow that later
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  • ...ry, the Civil War was led by some of the most renowned figures in American History. ...tegrating the contradictions of the man who may have changed the course of history.
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  • ...D8BXY&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=d7f7869357eb87e0ad2906fa13cffb47 History of Florence: From the Founding of the City Through the Renaissance]</i> (Lo ...ied while still quite young and was succeeded by his son Lorenzo, known to history as Lorenzo the Magnificent. He was an excellent ruler and brought peace and
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  • ...ge that allowed cities to become safe enough to grow and prosper, but that history and its origin are complex. ...nstable, O. R., & Zurro, D. (Eds.). (2012). Medieval Iberia: readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources (2nd ed). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylva
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  • ...f the most remarkable monarchs of the Middle Ages and indeed in the entire history of Europe. He was the ruler of all Germany and all of Southern Italy. He w ...olerant ruler. He was greatly interested in other cultures and treated the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim inhabitants of his kingdom equally. Soon his relations
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  • ====History and Key Events==== ...ssays in Honour and Memory of Walter C. Utt.</i> Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 156. Leiden: Brill.</ref>
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  • ====Anglo-Saxon and Danish History and Culture==== ...341&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ff5b5676acff27932d33829e68aa84b0 A history of the Vikings]</i> (2nd ed). London ; New York: Oxford University Press.
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  • ...sants War, Luther became even more conservative. He even argued that every Christian should obey the temporal ruler without question and, if requested, should s [[Category:Wikis]][[Category:German History]][[Category:Religious History]]
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  • ...ished by the [https://global.oup.com/academic/category/arts-and-humanities/history/?lang=en&cc=us Oxford University Press] is an effort re-illuminate the cont ...389&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ae4748818883cd06daf0f4930762dd6b A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present Volume 1] and
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  • ====Early History==== In early Christian tradition, Saint Joseph, Jesus' father, was celebrated on March 19th (Figur
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  • ...iterally made from the swords of the defeated) to show the reader that the history of Westeros was extraordinarily violent. While modern government in the Wes ...al period, see: Collins, R. (2010) <i>Early medieval Europe, 300-1000.</i> History of Europe. 3rd ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke [England] ; New York, NY, Palg
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  • ...edical licensing boards began aggressively filing criminal actions against Christian Scientists. ==The Theory and Beliefs of Christian Science==
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  • However, they made a decisive contribution to the history of Europe, because they shaped in many ways the early development of Rome. ...with Marius the and by 50 BCE the Etruscans had virtually disappeared from history and it seems that they had become thoroughly Romanized.<ref> Franklin-Hall,
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  • ...He notes that this growing conservatism both predated and anticipated the Christian Social movement, and was welcomed by different groups, explaining, “For t ...cs. According to Sperber’s analysis, “if the political impetus for the Christian Social movement came from the need to counter social agitation, the movemen
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  • ...m the New Kingdom (ca. 1539-1075 BC) and the Late Period (728 BC until the Christian Era) demonstrate that Egyptians were aware of potential pitfalls in marriag [[category:Ancient Egyptian History]][[Category:Wikis]][[Category:History of Sex]]
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  • ...ll investigates the aspects of Marian devotion that make it exceptional in history, and claims that this process will lead to a more complete understanding of ...sult of a calculated and successful attempt to integrate peasants into the Christian religion by allowing popular goddess devotion to be transformed into Marian
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  • ..."conversion" to Christianity and identify when he can be called an actual Christian. It will focus on Constantine's alleged conversion before the t Battle of t ...as shown in the Christian sources and that he took many years to become a Christian.
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  • ...triumph over the Vikings, see: Dougherty, M.J. (2014) <i>Vikings: a dark history of the Norse people.</i> New Holland Publishers.</ref> ...e: Stafford, P. (1989) <i>Unification and conquest: a political and social history of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries.</i> London ; New York :
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  • ...ct on Asian cultures. It is one of the most devastating pandemics in human history and fundamentally changed the course of human events due to the high death ...n Europe, see: Ziegler, Philip. 2010. <i>The Black Death.</i> Stroud: The History Press Ltd, pg. 85</ref>
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  • ...ken during the First Crusade but later lost to the Muslims, never to be in Christian hands again. ...and the western European kingdoms in the eyes of the Islamic and Orthodox Christian worlds – the Muslims and Orthodox Christians may not have liked the weste
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  • ...re becoming intermixed, where some Danes, such as possibly Guthred, became Christian as well. In effect, the population was become hybrid and some conversions w ...139&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a5bdf413f75cfbfe3838ad70df0785b4 A history of London].</i> London, Macmillan, pg. 64.</ref>
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  • ...Gae. “The Middle Kingdom Renaissance (c. 2055-1650 BC). In <i>The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt.</i> Edited by Ian Shaw. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ===Canal Projects During the Late Period (664 BC – the Christian Era)===
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  • ...ok to the bible, the New Testament specifically, as the sole authority for Christian life and teaching, but may not be aware of how this deeply influential and ...ecumenical councils were most pivotal in creating what is now known of the Christian New Testament.
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  • ...f Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861]'' (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), ====The History of British Abolitionism====
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  • ...owever, it substantially differs from our contemporary notion. In medieval Christian discourse, especially that pertaining to the natural law, there is an expli ...valuable and taught that they should be treated as such, which the law of Christian love demands. Interpretations as to what obligations this created for Chris
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  • ...Luther]]The Reformation was quite possibly the biggest epoch in Christian history. As the name of the movement suggests, the Reformation was an effort to ref ...n, most specifically Martin’s Luther theology, fundamentally changed the Christian world. The common theme, philosophically, theologically and sociologically
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