Three centuries ago an antiquary named John Aubrey decided that is was the Druids, a caste of Celtic priests, who made Stonehenge. ... The legend of King Arthur provides another story of the construction of Stonehenge (Stonehenge 2). ... The King wanted to create a memorial for the slain men and he asked Merlin to use his powers to make what is now Stonehenge. ...
Most importantly, the peace treaty between Vikings' leader, Rollo and France's king, Charles the Simple to end the Vikings' invasion of France led to feudalism, which was established in 911. ... There was limited power of the king because King John argued with the Barons of the methods of ruling Europe, which led to King John signing of Magna Carta in 1215. This led to the start of a constitutional government and formation of a powerful parliament.2 Although the king's power was limited, the fall of the later Churches (due to the Crusades) caused kingdoms to rise again. ...
The old idea was that the king was sent by god to be a ruler, known as the divine right. ... John Locke, Voltaire, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau expressed the main views on government. ... John Locke believed, as most people did, that the people were capable of helping make the government decisions. John Locke was a philosopher who believed that did not have to constantly be in war but they could learn from their mistakes and improve themselves. ...
John Barbot, describes the North and South-Guinea in painting showing European trading vessels and slave ships in the background and various forts. ... Lovejoy, author of Transformation in Slavery: a History of Slavery in Africa, Second Edition, and John K. ... From A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, there's a painting of Don Alvaro, King of Kong, sitting on his throne surrounded by bodyguards with Dutch emissaries kneeling in front of him. This provides that African king gained power by selling his people. ...
America and France got the ideas of a constitution from John Locke. John Locke and Adam Smith influenced phase one to me because they both wanted to reform government through rising up to create a better government and to create economic prosperity. ... The war with Prussia and Austria makes problems worse, Parisians think Louis XVI is behind this attack and they attack the king and his family at Tuileres Palace. ... But the Republic of the Sans-culottes were led by a group of Jacobins, they hated the king and want relief from food shortages. ...
Main reasons were: poverty and the conflicts between King and the Church. King Henry the eight wanted to marry Catherine of Aragon, but the Protestant church refused to give its permission for him to do so. ... In the passage from Captain John Smith (a person in charge of this voyage), we get the sense that Indians were pure savages and intentionally were exterminating colonists. ...
The king normally fought at the forefront of their army and was usually surrounded by his chosen warriors (Poole, 265-298). ... The last great Viking raid on western Europe was the Norwegian King Harold Hardada's attempt to conquer England (289). ... McCusker, John J., Jr. ...
--In 1482 he persuaded the King of Spain to finance an expedition to find a trade route to the Orient and on the 2 August he set sail. ... Discovery of North America --John Cabot, sponsored by Henry VII was the fist to sight North America in 1497. ... -it was not until John Rolfe began to experiment with another Indian product, Tobacco, did the colonies fortunes begin to turn for the better. ...
By the end of the 1400's there were several strong ad united kingdoms ready to devour the world: France with Louis XI as its king; England where Henry VII was victorious in the Wars of the Roses; Spain, which became united with the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile; and finally, Portugal who was the earliest to assure national independence with John I in 1385. ...
In particular, Wieacker explained that: "the Codification was not focused on gathering, compiling, improving or reforming the existent scientific or prescientific law - as the former German reforms or Roman and Spanish compilations-, but planning a better society by means of new systematic and creative law.""9 In fact, the relation Civil Code/Constitution, with the primacy of the private law, supported the legal framework of the 19th century bourgeois liberal society.10 According to John Merryman, one of the most important aims of the French Revolution was to unify private law, and a...
An excerpt from the Homage Oath taken by john of Toul " I will aid the count of Champagne in my own person, and will send [them] knights whose service I owe to them for the fief which I hold of them- maintains that there was a great deal of loyalty and respect shown in the feudal society. ... Even the king himself feared the power of the church and the popes making it the strongest power in Europe. ...
