Ireland had never been simply "conquered" by England, though certain English or rather Anglo-Norman families had carved out estates there since the twelfth century. ... Ireland therefore by the close of the seventeenth century was a very mixed country. ...
Everyday Life In Early America Philosopher Thomas Hobbes describes the lives of the average, seventeenth-century inhabitant of the British Isles and Northern Europe as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." ... Seventeenth-century English America was not fertile territory for Hobbesian "absolutism."" ... Instead, the seventeenth-century Americans were Independent, intrepid, and willing. The lives of seventeenth-century Americans were greatly affected by Independence. ... Seventeenth-century English America was in now way fertile territory for Hobbesian "absolutism."" ...
Her writing reflects the constant struggles that she had to endure as a Puritan woman in the seventeenth century, as well as her love and devotion to her husband and children. ... A fellow poet and Puritan from the seventeenth century is Edward Taylor, who is an important and major literary figure because he is our first successful Metaphysical poet. ... Very little is known about Taylor, mainly because none of his work was discovered until two centuries after he left it at Yale College's library. ... Like Taylor, very little is known about the eighteenth century poet, Ebenezer Cook, ...
local dialects there emerged toward the end of the fourteenth century a written language that in course of the fifteenth century won general recognition and has since become the recognized standard in speech and writing. ... The English language experienced a major upheaval in grammar followed by a stability for many centuries. ... The orthographical reformers of the seventeenth century were soon joined by grammarians. Aims at 'regularizing grammar' became more and more pronounced in the latter part of the seventeenth century and completly dominated grammatical thinking in the...
There is also written evidence of the Masons dating back to the fourteenth century. ... The Masons, as simple craftsmen learned the operative arts of masonry and design in guilds and unions into the sixteenth century (Mackley and McClennachan, 774-750). The beginning of the seventeenth century marked a huge change in the patronage or membership of the Masons. ... At the end of the seventeenth century, a great change occurred within the principles and ideals of the Freemasons. ...
Knaut explores these sides of the Spanish crown during the seventeenth century of their claim to New Mexico. ... The Native Americans of the New Mexican area before the seventeenth century would face very little outside conflict from foreigners, but by the early 1600's their freedom would radical change. ... The Spanish had one internal problem that would plague them until they left the New World;albeit, the struggle between the church and the state would cause everlasting problems into the next two centuries. ...
The number, seventy-seventeenth, represents the old and decayed tradition of the lottery ritual has continued over for seventy-seventeenth years; it represents the lottery has slain seventy-seventeenth villagers at least; it represents Old Man Warner is unaware to take part in the killing activity for all his life. ... Any public activity can thrive for centuries because it is supported and advocated by people. ... Soon, Old Man Warner is called to select a slip, he triumphantly shouted he has attended the lottery for seventy-seventeenth times while walking through the crowd. ...
It is unique because Native Americans were the original inhabitants of the Americas and experienced all the stages of its settlement by Europeans since the first colony in the seventeenth century and ending with the completion of the development of the western borders by the end of the nineteenth century. ... At the same time, Native Americans, although they were deprived of their ancestral lands during the nineteenth century, survived and were able to establish themselves in their political and economic rights, maintained their national identity and culture in spite of the invasion of modern...
Passion plays rose in the fifteenth century, and with that rose their cities and economy. ... As the sixteenth century rolled along, the passion plays of the fifteenth century started to lose their serious and yet humorous acting. In the seventeenth century, passion plays were pushed to monasteries and unpopular villages. ... Interest in passion plays rose again in the nineteenth century, as Oberammergau was attracting people from all over the world to their plays. ...
In part one (1382 to the Mid Eighteenth Century), we see several forms of stories. ... In the late seventeenth century, we begin to see the introduction of female writers, and with them, a different writing style. ... The early eighteenth century brought with it a new movement in Yiddish literature. ... The Haskala, or Jewish Enlightenment, period began during the eighteenth century. ... The early 18th century starts to see a movement away from religious themes and the stories seem more for entertainment than teaching. ...
The people of Ming China experienced many hardships in a truly extreme time of crises and tribulation during the 17th century. ... Spence illustrates through repeated graphic examples how horribly miserable the two-quarters of the seventeen-century were to the diminishing population of the county. ... Spence give the reader a closer look on the financial struggle of an ordinary seventeenth century farmer. ... Spence defines the meaning of property in seventeen century China. ... The role of men and women of 17th century society are defined vividly in this book. ...
Michael Bellesiles looks to expose the myth in our history by pointing out the complete rarity the gun once was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, before the days of the Civil War. With enough statistical evidence that could be considered a crime in itself, Bellesiles seems to have single handedly change our history According to Bellesiles, a trend was beginning to occur while researching probate records of the eighteenth century. ... " Bellesiles appears to have substantially misrecorded the seventeenth and eighteenth century probate data he presents He claims that he include...
People living during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continually experienced changes in their personal lives as well as in their societies. During the sixteenth century, people were affected by scholars such as Martin Luther and John Calvin. ... In the seventeenth century, people witnessed the developments of the Scientific Revolution that was advanced by the scientific method proposed by Sir Frances Bacon and the heliocentric arguments of Galileo Galilei. ... If one were to judge these people according to twenty first century standards, it would be completely understandable if they...
In the 18th century, Europe was under going some drastic changes in life and society as a whole. ... The background of the 18th century European government and churches is what the enlightenment went against. ... The pattern of Europe's social organization, first established in the Middle Ages, continued well into the eighteenth century. ... Peasants Serfdom had come late to the east having largely been imposed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ... Poverty among the peasants was very highly visible problem in the 18th century. ...
In the sixteenth century, British sea captains brought three Indians to England. ... By the beginning of the seventeenth century, small plots of tobacco had become large plantations. ... In the sixteenth century, explorers in South America witnessed tribes using the leaves of the coca plant to increase stamina and relieve feelings of fatigue and hunger. ...
(Woloch, 30) John Demos a New England witchcraft historian writes "a hidden theme of the lives of seventeenth-century women seems to reveal an intense hostility of younger women toward the power and control of older women. ... Why were women (and especially women over the age of 40) signaled out and punished disproportionately in seventeenth-century New England? ...
Themes of "carpe diem" were common in seventeenth century poetry when poets plunged into the lives and feelings of the everyday commoner. ... Robert Herrick wrote this poem in the seventeenth century when the life span was not as extensive as today's life span. ...
The concept of witchcraft has existed since the tenth century. "Between the tenth and sixteenth centuries, anyone blamed for cannibalism and blood-practices (feasting with demons on human bodies) were called witches."" ... This made proven innocence on a charge of witchcraft a rarity in 16th and 17th century England. ... (http://members.tripod.com/~helenduncan/witchtrials.htm) However, it would not be until later in the 16th century that King James I would influence the witchcraft scene. ... It wasn't until after King James' death, in the late seventeenth century, that witch-hu...
The beginning of the nineteenth century marked a major growth of art in America and the beginning of art as a profession. ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, black artists in America were often craftsmen by trade. ... In the later half of the nineteenth century, there were movements for black education, which included some art education. ... At the beginning of the twentieth century, African American artists were still an isolated group. ... Between the turn of the century and 1920, many blacks emigrated to northern cities to escape the South, despite poor living conditions and fi...
Numerous events of political racism have taken place in the past, including enslavement of Africans by the Romans, black slavery in America, the mistreatment of aboriginals in various countries, European colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and countless others. ... In the past century, organized, political racism has given way to a more subtle, individual form of racism. ... One of the most intriguing, and publicized events of racism in the past century has been the South African policy of apartheid, (the Afrikaans term for separateness). This polit...
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England speech was so strict Parliament couldn't even debate the issues that they were to vote on. ... Over two hundred years later in England's thirteen colonies the Intolerable Acts, which restricted speech just as much as in the sixteenth century, were imposed. ...
With the advent of Islam in the seventh century A.D. writing began to be important because it gave visual form to the word of God. ... At the end of the seventh century, Arabic and its script became official, and were adopted in the administration of all Muslim countries. ... In the eighth century the Arabs learned the secret of paper-making from the Chinese. ... One of the earliest inscriptions is the one inside the Dome of the Rock at Jerusalem, in which gilded Kufic characters on a blue ground run along the mosaic walls: this dates from the seventh century. ... Thereafter there were two mai...
Although a warrior class had existed for hundreds of years in Japanese society, the samurai did not emerge until the twelfth century C.E. ... The word samurai was derived from the word saburai, meaning "to serve. " The first mention of the term was seen sometime in the eighth century, but in reference to servants (Turnbull, 16). ... Towards the end of the twelfth century, the rival clans, Taira and Minamoto, assisted the emperor in quelling his enemies. ... Bushido was not written down until the late seventeenth century. ...
Toltecs The Toltecs rose to power in the tenth century and are the first known civilization to leave a written history. ... For an additional two centuries the Toltecs had a strong influence over the central area until the droughts came during the twelfth century. ... By the 15th century, the Aztecs had become the preeminent power in central and southern Mexico. ... By the sixteenth century the Aztecs had expanded their control of Mexico. ... New Spain Collapses Disease and overwork wiped out much of the Indian population in the seventeenth century. ...
