By clarifying this relationship, Machiavelli offers an insight to a possible conclusion to why the Roman Republic became such a successful empire. ... Liberty in the Roman Republic came in sporadic episodes while in its first stages. However, since Principality and Aristocracy were still present in the system that was in use, the Republic was able to maintain itself over time by constant shifting between the three estates leading to greatness for the Roman Empire. ... Machiavelli tends to put a strong emphasis on Roman religion by addressing the fact that it held the Roman Empire toge...

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Before the end of the 1st century BC, the Armenian Empire was conquered by the Roman Empire and what is today Armenia, was used as a battleground and buffer zone between the Roman Empire and the Parthians, who ruled Persia. In the 1st century AD, a Roman- Parthian treaty was signed giving the Parthians rule over Armenia, but when a new dynasty came to power in the 3rd century AD and tried to seize Armenia, the Romans gained control of Armenia and crowned Tiridates III as king. ... For a while the Bolsheviks allowed Armenia to govern itself as a socialist republic, but a year later, the Bolshe...

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The Republic of Ireland became an industrialised state relatively late and has only recently moved away from an agricultural society to a more modern, Western industrial society. ... The Roman Catholic Church's influence and contribution to the political culture was and still is noticeable. ... The church was, and still is, despite the decline in the number of Roman-Catholics in Ireland, an opinion leader. ... Early on, the state recognised the Roman Catholic church's unique position as the people's moral guide and the church seemingly did not intervene with how the country was...

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Polybius was a Greek man, living in Rome at the height of its Republic power. ... He is most famous for his Histories, which chronicles the rise of the Roman Republic to its Empire days. ... The invasion of Saguntum in what is now called Spain by Carthage was a provocation to the Romans. Under agreement from the First Punic War, Saguntum was technically under Roman allied territory. ... However, Polybius also writes about Hamilcar's hatred for the Romans and implies it is a pretext for the invasion of Roman allied lands. ...

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On the 25th of June 1991, both Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia declared themselves indepent from the former Republic of Yugoslavia. ... Last topic to be adressed is the future of Croatia in International Relations, or more specific, the possibility of Croatian accesion to the EU, together with the other nations of which the Republic of Yugoslavia used to consist. ... In the beginning of the 1990s Croatia consisted of 78 % percent Croatians, mainly Roman-Catholics, while the Serbian minority made up 12 % of the population, with mainly Orhodox-Christians (Encarta Encyclopedia). ... Y...

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Maximus is motivated by the desire to defend his family and the prosperous way of life that Roman imperialism provides. ... With a central character grounded by family, religion, and a pledge of loyalty to the dream of a Roman Republic, the film allows time for thematic and moral issues to draw attention to themselves. ... It has been quite some time since a mainstream American film set in Roman times has managed to straddle the popular and the political lines. ... There is much reflection upon the nature of the Roman Empire and several rumblings about corruption and manipulation which suggest...

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In social media site, Igor, according to news, broadcast that the destruction of the plane was due to the act of the members of the Donetsk People's Republic for having mistaken the Malaysian aircraft for a Ukraine military transport aircraft. ... The arrival of the Romans in Crimea during the 1st century AD started the Byzantine Empire in the territory. The Romans built in the land their naval bases and fortresses to give Crimea a strategic location. ... However, in December 1991, Ukraine became a country in its own right when the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, was d...

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Conventional long form: Federal Republic of Germany conventional short form: Germany local short form: Deutschland former: German Empire, German Republic, German Reich local long form: Bundesrepublik Deutschland Germany, the home of Oktoberfest, Mercedes Benz, and Dark Chocolate, is a 357,021 square kilometer nation with strategic location on the Northern European Plain and along the entrance to the Baltic Sea bordering: Austria, Belgium, The Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Poland, and Switzerland. ... The country was devastated by the two world wars in the earli...

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His achievements in the retrieval of Greek and Roman traditions, including rhetoric, and his attempts to follow classical style lead to the movement itself (Humanism: Italy" 2). ... It was during this expulsion that he wrote The Prince, which not only was based on previous Roman political examples, but it combined some humanistic ideals into his innovatory view of the state. ... Neoplatonism during the Renaissance was a revival of Platonism, a dualistic philosophy based on Plato's Republic. ...

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The Thirty Years War was a series of European conflicts that lasted from 1618 to 1648. The battles were mainly fought in Germany. The struggle was initially based on the religious conflicts among Germans by the Protestant Reformation, but it was later influenced by other issues and later became domi...

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Despite the possible downfalls that the republic had on Venice, they had much power throughout Europe. ... The humanistic movement began during the early Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the writings of classical Greeks and Romans, which were not only models of literary style, but considered to be guides to the understanding of life. ... Brunelleschi was the first Renaissance architect to revive the Roman style of architecture. ... One of his greatest works, School of Athens, shows a humanistic influence of classical Greek and Roman models through depicting a group of Greek philosop...

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To resume positive relations with the Roman Catholic Church, and at the same time unify France, Napoleon and the Pope signed an agreement called the Concordat in 1801 (Greenblatt 34). ... The Concordat stated that Roman Catholicism was the majority religion in France, hut at the same time, recognized tolerance and freedom of other religions (Hosack 30). The Church also recognized the lands the republic purchased during the Revolution as well as paid the bishops salaries although the pope would have the sole right to confirm or deny the promotion of clergy (Hosack 33). ...

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The Bakongo were originally from the Republic of Kongo, which was one of the of the most powerful ethnolinguistic groups in Africa. ... Roman Catholics make up 38% of the population, and Protestants make up 15% of the population. ...

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The Caribbean Islands is a very popular tourist and vacationing islands, the most popular islands are Aruba, Bahamas, U.S Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. ... When the Spanish and French shared Roman Catholic, British shared Protestantism, The Irish shared Catholicism, and the Dutch shared both Catholicism and the Dutch reform beliefs. ...

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Gleischaltung was in essence: "the elimination of those institution and structures of the Weimar Republic that no longer served a useful purpose in a National Socialist Germany and the disciplining and co-ordination of those that were indispensable." - Gordon A. ... In 1926 the Hitler Youth was established to promote racial superiority among young Germans, by the time Hitler became Chancellor it had 50000 members and by the end of 1934, Schirach, the Youth leader, had succeeded in bringing under his control all but the Roman Catholic youth groups. ...

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Aristotle's Political Ideal "It is not Fortune's power to make a city good; that is a matter of scientific planning and deliberative policy."" Aristotle, along with most of the prominent thinkers of his time, theorized upon what the Ideal Political State would be and through what means it could b...

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