... pulling together the formerly disunited Germanic kingdoms. The aim of "nation building" is certainly a massive undertaking. With this goal in mind, during his "liberal" phase and "under Biz's direction, Germany was given all the qualities of a great modern state. The civil and criminal codes were ready before the making of the empire; a ... accident, sickness, and old age. At the end he talked of 'the right to work' and thought of insurance against unemployment-the final step to the welfare state of the twentieth century." "These ideas were too novel for Biz's contemporaries. Most r...

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... are of Germanic origin. The first ideas of architecture came out of the first civilization in world history, which was the Greek civilization. The Greeks were directly followed by the Roman civilization that surpassed that of the Greeks, being a much more militarily aggressive empire. But the Romans stole many of the Greek architectural ideas. Hence, the first historical period that classifies architecture is the Classical period that embodies both the Greek and Roman ideas. The next period in architecture is the Romanesque ... period, which came at the end of the dark ages until the be...

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