Ford 10/8/02 The Shame of Charles V Charles had many concerns during his sovereignty of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. ... Shortly after his election as Holy Roman Emperor, Charles began his struggle with France; one that would endure his entire reign. ... Though such was done, as the Turks were defeated in Vienna at the Battle of Mohacs, they were allowed to remain throughout much of Eastern Europe, still threatening the Empire. ... Despite his efforts in extinguishing the Knight's Revolt, Peasant's Revolt, and Schmalkaldic League, Protestantism was still evident throug...

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He explains through the Aeneid that the underlying purpose for the Trojan War and the life of Aeneas has finally been fulfilled with the reign of Augustus in which the emperor managed to reunite the Roman Empire and bring peace to Italy after a period of constant civil war. ... Anchises shows Aeneas the glorious future of Rome and its leaders all the way up to the reign of Augustus who is fated to bring about the height of the Roman Empire. ...

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Furthermore, the Western Empire was replaced with small Germanic kingdoms that sprang all over Europe, with the crowning of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in 800. ... The dissolution of the Frankish empire caused the era to return into the Dark Ages, until feudalism arose. ... This era was also known as the Dark Ages (476~800 BC) because of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West. ... German states remain separate and unable to be unified due to the drowning of Frederick I's at the Third Crusade in 1190 because the absence of his leadership aroused panic and eventually, the fall of th...

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Petrarch believed that Italy should continue in the cultural tradition of the Roman Empire and wrote in both classical Latin and Italian. He also believed in the study and importance of the Greek and Roman classics as great works of literature. ... The Renaissance was a rebirth of civilization after a long period of decline since the glory days of the Roman Empire. ... He believed in the ideals and goals of the classical man described in Roman and Greek texts. He was responsible for discovering several texts and letters by the Roman author Cicero, who's Brutus became one of the most fa...

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The rich provinces of Lombardy and Venetia had been joined to the Austrian empire, while the rest of the Italian peninsula to the south of these two regions was directly under its control. Austria was an autocratic empire, depending for its survival on the suppression of freedom. ... Taxation was twice as heavy per head as in the rest of the empire. ... He forbade Roman Catholics from taking part in national elections. ...

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According to the historian Nassau Senior, "Agricultural methods were so outdated that cereal production in the South had scarcely increased its output since the days of the Roman Empire " (Morris 385). ... The major problem was known as ˜The Roman Question', and all other problems stemmed from it. ... The major problems plaguing Italy in 1870 after unification were mostly economic, political, and religious, with many of the smaller problems falling in more than one of those categories, or being effects of bigger problems, such as the Roman Question. ...

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1. What factors discouraged an early unification of Italy and how were these overcome? Before the year of 1848, the Italian faced a lot of difficulties to urge the unification movement. Until, 1848, the situation had been changed and directly contributed to the unification movement. After 1815 Italy was once again a mere geographical expression. ...

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