He wished a reunification of eastern and western churches, as well as travel routes to and from holy lands. ... The pope intended to take over land from the Muslims and re-claim it as Christian territory. He offered remission of sins for all crusaders who joined the force. ... As many as 30,000 crusaders left Western Europe around 1096. ... Without the crusades the world might be quite a different way today if Pope Urban II had not given that sermon and initiated a war on the Muslims...

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The subject of modern international relations, which is quite broad, is approached from many different perspectives. ... Parkinson introduces his first chapter by claiming that the remainder of it will be devoted to the evolutionary trends of thought in international relations; however, he ignored all other trends and only focused on one specific ideology: Stoicism. This ideology, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks out of a need to define their values, was integral in developing the Western world's general perspective of international relations. It appears that Stoicism is ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The actual word Copt comes from the Greek word "aigyptos" which was the name for the first capital of Ancient Egypt. ... All Coptic's have a simple and important belief which is as follows; One is God; the Father of all. One is his Son who became man, died and rose from the dead on the third day, and raised us up with him. ... Feast Days and Holy Days Finding feast days and Holy Days was quite hard, as there are specific feast days celebrated by the Coptic Church, yet there are also feast days celebrated by all the Eastern Churches, this includes Greek, Russian and Ukraine Orthodox C...

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• Grade Level: High School

Today's actions alone aren't all there were on the topic of religious warfare. ... The effects varied from a wide variation of moral in-justifications. ... These women are treated like women from the industrial revolution in the Western nations today. ... Religion brings the 7% of all warfare today with an incalculable casualty. ... Religions have been proven to be dangerous and quite useless. ...

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