Peasants worked the land. ... In theory, all land in the kingdom belonged to the monarch; the church also owned a substantial amount of land. ... Lords rented some of their land to peasants who cultivated the land for them. ... When Herbert Spencer stated, "Feudalism, serfdom, slavery are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man...... Unfortunately, as Spencer further articulates, this kind of system progressed into just another bad state for man-one lacking freedom. ...

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The pope intended to take over land from the Muslims and re-claim it as Christian territory. ... Needless to say, when the first crusade headed for the holy land, it was a thing to be remembered. ... Pope Eugenius III called a crusade to capture the territory, but his efforts were unsuccessful due to bad leadership and ineffective military. ... The success of the re-capture of the holy land in the first crusade reinforced authority of the church and strengthened the self-confidence of western Europeans. ... These holy wars had dramatic outcomes, and affected both the crusaders and the defende...

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He not only proved that the world was round, but found more land in his four explorations. ... The Spanish got many things from the New World; they got wealth, land, and labor. ... Columbus did a lot for many people, giving them land and a new start. ... Columbus was not a bad person, but he gets blamed for all of this because he found the New World. ...

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During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Occasionally they burned sections of land in the wilderness for better hunting area, but other than that they provided no threat to its well being. ... The Europeans believed that humans had domination over the land. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ...

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Is this good or bad idea? ... We can go to the outer space, to land on the Moon, and even we think how to colonize other planets! ... But now in the time of the European Union and the NATO the land is the smallest concern. ...

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Since the Native Americans had a bad reputation and were seen as devil worshipers to the Spanish they needed to be converted to Christianity. ... The conquistadors and Spanish settlers were given grants of land and the Indians that lived in each part of them were considered their land. These parts of land had an owner that would convert and Christianize these Indians if the Indians worked for them. ... When the English got to the Americans they didn't want to take over the land like the Spanish but they wanted to be apart of them. ... The Spanish knew they wanted to take over land and the...

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This led to very low amounts of food, and in years where harvests were bad, famine resulted. ... In this system, land was divided into two equal plots. ... So, instead of dividing their land into two equally sized plots, they divided the land into three equally sized plots. ... Now, each year serfs were able to use sixty-six percent of land to grow crops instead of fifty, and as a result were plowing significantly less fallow land. ... In the Winter, wheat, rye, and other cereal grains were planted in a third of the land, and in the Spring, oats, barley, and most importantly, legumes were plan...

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Upon the arrival of the European Countries on the American Land, every signal environment that is present at the time changes. ... They suddenly become tools for a government that they do not understand, lose all their land, as well as religious freedom they poses. ... Dependence, is what Europe created, forcing in one way or another that new land to look to Europe for it's economical answer. ... It is unfortunate that Latin America has to look outside of its own land to be influenced when it has a verity of culture at its finger tip. ... Due to this we see a migration to the great c...

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In the late 1580's witch hunting had become especially bad in Switzerland and the Netherlands. ... The pre-conditions such as the belief in witches, crop failure, death, famine, bad weather and sickness and infertility amongst animals can be easily triggered. ... The idea was that the poor and lowly would go around and beg at the doors of the wealthy land owners, when the land owners turned the poor away and refused to help them, the poor would curse the rich in revenge. ...

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The first estate consisted of the aristocracy and nobility of France. 130,000 French citizens were classified into the third estate and they owned twenty percent of the land in France. ... The second estate consisted of clerics and others heads of the church. 350,000 citizens were classified into this estate and they owned twenty-five to thirty percent of the land. The last and final estate consisted of the rest of France's population and they owned thirty-five to forty percent of the land. ... Bad harvests in 1787 and 1789 and a slowdown in manufacturing led to food shortages, rising foo...

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It makes the sea rise, that result the water covers many low land islands. ... Global warming is making people get very bad illnesses that could make them disabled, very sick, and sometimes even die. ...

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Railroads What steamships did for sea travel, the locomotive did for land travel. ... Russia Russia was the slowest major European nation to industrialize, due to its autocratic government and the fact that the majority of its people were serfs tied to the land. ...

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Besides Europe in the United States majority of architect jobs are found on the west coast due to the amount of vast land that is available out there, along with the complexity of structures out there requiring more people. ... Another important requirements is that even if faced with a bad environment you must be able to adjust because not everyone and every place that you must work in and with will you enjoy. ... The bad thing about being an architect is the hazards that come with it and they are most times than not fatal....

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We can't know in total whether this will be a good or a bad thing but we shouldn't just assume blindly that all will be well. ... In many places – and certainly this is true in England and probably true in other countries: in many continental countries and on the Mediterranean coast – untreated sewage is discharged directly into the sea instead of being treated and used on the land, as would seem possible. ... And, of course, the oceans are huge – they cover more of the earth surface than land but they can't endlessly prove a kind of flushing system, purificat...

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At first glance bad timing and a poor understanding of European politics appears to have frustrated Peter in this direction. ... However by 1710 the Swedish forces had been defeated after a long hard winter which had crippled Charles XII army Russia had won large portions of land along the Baltic coast from Sweden and it's new capital city St Petersburg had been founded at a delta in the Neva river. ...

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Indeed, the war was skilfully portrayed as a game to be played, as in source F, where the East Surreys, somewhat naively, kick four footballs into no-mans land to launch the assault on enemy positions. ...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and n...

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