Gibbon's great history is essentially an attack upon Christianity as the operating cause of the decline and fall. He idealized the crude and gross plutocracy of Rome into a world of fine gentlemen upon the eighteenth-century model, and told how it fell before the Barbarian from without because of the decay through Christianity within. ... And indeed in that period of the interregnum there was very little life or light in either the orthodox Christianity of Rome or in the orthodox tame churches of Russia and of the Protestant princes. ... Perhaps the same reflections will illustrate the fa...

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The fall of Constantinople in 1453 by the Turks caused a migration wave of Byzantine scholars into western Europe. ... carefully studied and drew inspiration from the ruins of Rome surrounding Italy, gaining a variety of new perspectives and ideas such as the use of symmetry in architecture or town planning. ...

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In 1959, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community. ... Its progress is remarkable; "the treaty of Rome contained a minimal and disparate number of articles concerning social and employment affairs,"" whereas today's committee, although still working towards its goals of complete eradication of poverty, inequality, pollution and poorer standards of living in different regions, has made amazing progress towards its goals by increasing legislation in proactive manners (i.e. coordinating national policies regarding health-care in a welfare state manner). ... The EU aids...

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The Statute adopted in Rome in 1998 bore little resemblance to the draft proposed by the ILC in 1994. ... Otherwise, given that Bosnia-Herzegovina and other states in which such personnel are functioning have ratified the Statute, crimes committed on their territory by foreign nationals, including U.S. personnel, would fall within the ICC's jurisdiction. ...

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