" James I followed pro-Catholic foreign policy with Spain and discriminated against conservative Protestants known as Puritans. ... They agreed to help the king as long as he abandoned his absolutist ways. ... In desperation, the king called in the Scots and Irish catholic troops for help. ... Cromwell was very liked by the people he helped England by creating a marine fleet, encouraged the return of the Jews to England ,supported the arts and sponsored many ventures to the Americas. ... Some of the rights in the Bill Of Rights are that it is the right of the subjects to petition the ki...

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Religion and religious tolerance was completely different in each region, running from being free to complete persecution. ... The Governor of Virginia, William Berkeley, asked the King of England to help out. ... Georgia was founded to try and get rid of debtors in England and create a buffer between English America and Spanish Florida. ... Although each of these regions had quite a few aspects in common (which helped them to eventually unite against the mother country that was England in the war for independence in 1776), they were also very much different from one another in areas such as t...

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Italy with Dante, Machiavelli and Ariosto, while Spain with Juan del Encina and Fernando de Rojas. ... " Shakespeare rhymed "tea" with tay, "sea" with say, he was very free with words in his plays. ... Shakespeare gave us a new world in words and insights which would colour, help, deepen, lighten and depict our lives in thought and feeling. ...

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The term "white man's burden" came into existence during the Spanish-American war, and came to represent the magnanimous and charitable attitude of white society toward "less-civilized" cultures, which were seen as the economic burden of the white race ("History Matters," N.D., para. 1). ... This theory helped motivate the European compulsion to "domesticate" those they considered uncivilized, in order to make the world a safer place for the white man and his family. ... US and Allied tacticians knew that a massive power vacuum would ensue, once the...

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