He preserved some of the Latin literature that might've otherwise been lost and started a few schools to educate monks. ... Greek literature and thought also became popular again, and the people also made creative advancements of their own, with poetry of troubadours and narratives, like Dante's Divine Comedy. ... One of the most important was the use of gunpowder in war, which helped the French win the Hundred Years" War, and helped all Westerners when they were colonizing other lands, like the Americas. ... The magnetic compass and other navigational tools also helped when ex...

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• Grade Level: High School

The humanists were scholars and artists who studied subjects that they believed would help them understand the problems of humanity. These subjects were literature and philosophy. ... The church also had periods of reform when reformers would step up and try to help the church's situation, even though not enough to satisfy the public. ... Art The Renaissance itself will always be associated with achievements in literature, art, and music. ... The humanists helped people to understand, appreciate, and to conduct their lives. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Society today reveals the progression made concerning science, art, music and literature. It shows how wrong Medieval thinking was and how the Enlightenment era has helped us. ... Literature was based on facts rather than fiction because it encouraged people to think and see life as it is. The kind of literature we have today does, in fact, include non –fiction, but so much more relates to the authors own creative imagination. ... Adam Smith's idea concerning a countries wealth focused on the "liberty of individuals" and helped to lay the foundation for what became known in the 19t...

• Word Count: 1452
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Cahill tells how the Irish helped save classical works and thus preserve a civilization that might otherwise have been lost. ... Invaders plunder much of the art, architecture and literature of the time. ... These missionaries help return Christianity and "civilization" to the lands that were once the Roman Empire. ...

• Word Count: 560
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Most of the information, with the exception of ancient literature, is very bias and pro-Christian. ... During troubling times or times of war, the Druids would help their armies in defeating their foe. ... Their existence spanned a period of more than four thousand years, and the only accounts we have of this mystical people are ancient literature and scribe recordings of the Romans when they invaded Britain and Western Europe. ...

• Word Count: 1004
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Today there are many Mennonite organizations set up to send missionaries and aid to those in need of help. There are also many pieces of literature written monthly by Mennonites and distributed throughout the world. ...

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Whitman's defiant break with traditional poetic concerns and style exerted a major influence on American thought and literature. ... In being both traditional and skeptical, Frost's poetry helped provide a link between the American poetry of the 19th century and that of the 20th century. ... There, in 1925, his literary skills were discovered after he left three of his poems beside the plate of American poet Vachel Lindsay, who recognized Hughes's abilities and subsequently helped publicize Hughes's work. ...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

When I was first given this assignment, I would have to say that I have never been more uninterested in doing homework in my life. I've never been interested in history of any kind, which would explain my failures to participate in class and so when I first stepped into the Museum of Tolerance I did...

• Word Count: 2208
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• Grade Level: High School

When I was first given this assignment, I would have to say that I have never been more uninterested in doing homework in my life. I?ve never been interested in history of any kind, which would explain my failures to participate in class and so when I first stepped into the Museum of Tolerance I did...

• Word Count: 2210
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School