Essays on Medieval Europe

Spain and England would be considered to be major powers at the time, they would focus on the notion of expansion and exploration into the Americas that would significantly benefit them in resources for their economy and also power. Another reason for expansion was to expand religion throughout the world and to grow their beliefs...

“An absolute monarchy is a type of government in which the monarch rules with an absolute control, with no limitation from any law or type of constitution (Totally history, 2013)”.  Born on September 5, 1638, Louis XIV was destined to become the next ruler of France, he assumed power in May 14, 1643, when he...

The life of King Louis XIV. Within this research exploration, I will be analyzing the life of King Louis XIV and the effect he made on the French Monarchy. According to Lewis (2016), Louis was born in the “chateau of St. Germain at 2 o’clock in the morning on the 5th of September 1638.” The...

A number of revolutions took place in history; many came up in the 18th and 19th centuries across the West. The French Revolution can be considered the most significant of all due to the “extreme causes” and violence related to it; along with the general causes that most revolutions at the time shared, such as...

Introduction The Romantic School draws on the spiritual values of affirmation and praise, and strives for individual liberation and human rights as the ideological principle. In painting, it advocates individuality, characteristic depiction and expression of emotion. The composition is rich in change, the color contrast is strong, and the brush strokes are unrestrained and smooth,...

Ottoman Empire, Islamic-run superpower was created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia which grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th-16th century. The Ottoman flourished for more than 600 years and came to an end only in 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish Republic. It was one...

The theme of fiscal short-term solutions carried on into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Ottoman bureaucrats focused more closely on ad-hoc solutions, not a real structural transformation, in hopes of generating faster outcomes. The collapse of the timar system, temporary land grants issued by the Sultan, were abandoned in favor of tax farming (auctioning...

The Ottoman Empire began in 1299 and lasted for around 600 years. It came to an end in the year 1922. During the reign of the empire they experienced hardship and a population decline due to the plague. The plague was a horrendous disease, it was very widespread, and killed many people. At first everyone...

In the years prior to the civil war, an era of Romanticism ideas struck the citizens of America. From this Romantic Movement arouse the Gothic movement, which included ideas of guilt that changed the way people created artistic pieces and interpreted them. Specifically, the element of Gothic guilt led to changes in ideas of slavery;...

Introduction Revolution is defined as a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system. Even though there have been numerous different revolutions throughout history, the two most arguably notorious revolutions are the American and the French revolution. This essay will compare aspects of the French and American revolutions in...