European History Essays and Term Papers

1449 - 1492 Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: about tomorrow there's no knowing. --Lorenzo The Magnificent Lorenzo de Medici was born on January 1, 1449 in Florence, Italy. "Lorenzo The Magnificent," as he was called by the people of Florence,…

organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment'. Six…

in 1918, after World War I. Its core was SERBIA (which had already been independent), joined by Montenegro (another independent country) and former Austro-Hungarian areas inhabited by southern Slavic peoples. On the eve of World War II, Yugoslavia had…

is motivated by the foreigners and the general culture. Perhaps the 'boy of today' motivated the Jews. B) The Jew is compared to a herd, to a pack of wolves, to horses, and to a juggler if not an ape. C) The Jew never possessed a culture of its…

as dirty, heartless, and evil. Pirates deliberately tried to scare their enemies. They designed their ship's flags with evil images, including a skeleton stabbing a heart. Blackbeard, one of the most famous pirates, braided his hair to look like devil…

women's lifestyle during the Victorian Era. Women of the mid- 19th century had no choices. Most lived in a state little better than slavery. They had little choice but to obey men, because in most cases men held all the resources and women had no…

request new funds through extraparliamentary measures? What limits does the Petition attempt to place on royal taxation?" There was one main reason for King Charles taxing the people of England without Parliament's consent. This was that he and…

of the continent has come largely from an evolution of not only people, but an evolution of ideologies. From Hegal's idea of synthesis to the Enlightenment philisophes, the ideological history of Europe has not been insignificant. One of the major…

just as they please; they do not make under the circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the…

city-state of Classical Greece - Athens or Sparta. The greatest city-state of all time was Athens from which we model our modern ways after. Their laws were humane and civilized which allowed citizens to think in a free manner. Athens was…