The Middle Ages was an era of great decline in Europe that lasted from 500 AD to 1400 AD following the collapse of the Roman Empire. Many refer to the early Middle Ages as "The Dark Ages" because of the poor living conditions and structure the people of this era had. ... However, as time progressed, the people of the Middle Ages were able to created a structured sort of hierarchy called the Feudal System. The Feudal system brought many changes and improvements to the lives of the people living in this time, and was a large stepping stone that helped lead Europe out of the Middle Ages...

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Today the term "classical music" has come to define the style of Western music that began in Europe in the Middle Ages. ... The classical period in music tends to be associated with the movement called the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment, which began earlier in the eighteenth century. ... Stamitz composed several symphonies despite the fact that he died at the age of forty. ... In earlier times, instrumental music was chiefly intended for performance at court or for groups of gentlemen amateurs to play in their homes. ... During an age of wars and revolution, romantic composers felt fre...

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Firstly there was a change in the demographics of townspeople during the early modern period. ... As Europe was coming out of the middle ages, cities as a centre of administration and commerce were particularly important in modernizing Europe, we can see this as by the mid 1500s, already ten to fifteen per cent of Europe's population lived in towns of greatly varying size. ... Overall the from 15th century to the early 17th many historians see the development of towns and cities in early modern Europe as an age of progress due to the increase in capitalism and commerce which brought cit...

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One of the largest exposed areas of early Precambrian rocks can be found in Canada and is known as the Canadian Shield. ... During the early Precambrian, radioactive heat from the new planet may have been so great that little permanent crust could survive. ... The term, meaning middle life, was introduced in 1841 by the English geologist John Phillips. ... Early in the Cenozoic, Greenland began to separate from Europe; Antarctica and Australia, and Africa and India also separated. ... Most of today's common plants and insects can be recognized in early Cenozoic fossils. ...

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The Gothic age was a time of overwhelming change in the area of architecture. ... Italian Renaissance writers originally used the word gothic as a derogatory term for all architects and artists in the middle ages, which were compared to the works of the barbarian Goths. Although now the Gothic Age is considered Europe's internationally acclaimed, it began as a regional phenomenon (Kleiner 488). ... Saint Denis is the key monument of early gothic art and architecture. ... Spain was also a little late going into the gothic period mainly because it remained in a state of political disuni...

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How did Europe catch up and eventually surpass the great civilizations in the Middle East and the Orient? ... The new middle class allowed craftsmen to specialize entirely in the production of one such good. ... Such organizations existed in Europe throughout most of the Middle Ages, originating in around the twelfth century and continuing to exist well into the eighteenth century. ... Indeed, further undermining the rise of capitalism, "the anti-capitalistic religious theories of the Middle Ages had probably more widespread acceptance than anti-capitalistic Marxist theories have today" (Po...

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Conclusion Coogle 1 Social Factors that influenced the Renaissance The Renaissance was a cultural movement that began in the early 1300s and ended in about 1600. ... The Renaissance overlapped a period in European history called the Middle Ages. ... Trade slowly increased and moved inland which enlarged existing settlements and created new ones along its major routes, which steadily enriched it's inhabitants, and in the 12th and 13th centuries came to an early climax. ... The Renaissance represents the rebirth, growth, and expansion of the Middle Ages. ...

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Fukuzawa urged middle class people in Japan to nurture a civilization because they have knowledge and intellect. He used examples from Europe to show some middle classes did there such as the lays of polictial economy and changed the way of commerce by Adam smith. ... That is why Chinese philosophy as the root of education was responsible for our obvious shortcomings.[3] Fukuzawa was opposing the Chinese teaching because such vigor was his belief that in this age of transition, if this retrogressive doctrine remains at all in young men's minds, the new civilization could not give its ful...

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Most everyone knows of the on-going violence plaguing the Middle-East. ... However, games certainly did not play a role in the case of Middle East suicide bombings. Too many confounding issues attribute to murder in both cases; games cannot pinned as a plausible motivation for murder, as games or media did not play any part in the suicide bombings within the Middle East. ... I remember this arcade craze as it started in the early 90's with such memorable violent games as Smash TV, and Operation Wolf. ...

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The city states that were characteristic of ancient Greece, the feudal principalities that defined Europe in the Middle Ages, and the empires that have existed throughout recorded history (both Eastern and Western) have largely been replaced by the nation-states as the dominant actors within the international arena. ... The Medieval Background (Middle Ages: An Age of Faith 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D) The Medieval Synthesis refers to the relationship between the 1. ... A dynasty in the early modern period was a family that ruled a state by virtue of an inherited right. ...

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Subsequent to the Middle Ages, populations in Western Europe began developing technology that enhanced their ability to generate products and which led to significantly higher standards of living than populations elsewhere on the planet. ... Marriages were delayed, with some never marrying at all, and childbirth took place at later ages. ... The Europeans even went so far as to legislate marriages as early as the eighteenth century. ... There was a good waterway system in the country long before rivers came to be improved, and well before the introduction of the Canal Age (Barker 45). Main hig...

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To only go to sleep and then get up early the next day to do it all over again. "Infants of four and five years of age, many of them girls, pretty and still soft and timid; entrusted with the fulfillment of responsible duties, the very nature of which entails on them the necessary of being the earliest to enter the mine and the latest to leave it" (Sybil). ... Also, a small middle class would only mean an increase in controversies between the poor and the rich based on their rights. ... It came a time where the middle class fled to the inter city away from the factory, disease smoke,...

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Progression in the middle ages led to "watchmen", in cities in Europe. ... In the early middle ages England created the keepers of the peace were established and these men were knights assigned to protect the king. ...

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After this happened about 35,000 years ago, some 1200 generations were to pass before civilization, in the form of farming, spreading from the Middle East, began to supplant the hunter-gatherer economy of the Stone Age inhabitants of Europe. ... The area of really good soil, capable of cultivation by early man, was small, and the vagaries of weather were such that recurrent crop failures were inevitable. ...

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Usually the people that joined the SS were between the ages of thirty and forty years old, married, came from a lower-middle-class family, and probably came from one of Germany's larger cities, most likely Munich or Berlin, many did not have a religion. ...

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