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Hace 3 días · Defaced relief of Horus and Isis in the Temple of Edfu, Egypt.Local Christians engaged in campaigns of proselytism and iconoclasm. In the Bronze Age, the most significant episode of iconoclasm occurred in Egypt during the Amarna Period, when Akhenaten, based in his new capital of Akhetaten, instituted a significant shift in Egyptian artistic styles alongside a campaign of intolerance towards ...
Hace 2 días · During the 16th century, Portugal also started to colonize its newly discovered territory of Brazil. However, temporary trading posts were established earlier to collect Brazilwood , used as a dye, and with permanent settlements came the establishment of the sugar cane industry and its intensive labor.
Hace 3 días · From the 16th to the 19th century, lords of even comparatively small territories were granted or took the ducal title. Eleven duchies survived until 1918: Oldenburg, the two Mecklenburgs (east and west), Saxe-Weimar (as the grand duchy of Saxony), Baden, and Hesse-Darmstadt were grand duchies; and Anhalt, Brunswick, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha were sovereign duchies.
Hace 4 días · Book: The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715. Paul Kleber Monod. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1999; 427pp. Reviewer: Mr Robin Briggs. All Souls College, Oxford. Citation: Mr Robin Briggs, review of The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715, (review no. 127)
Hace 3 días · The global economic recession of the late 2000s significantly harmed the economy of Japan. The nation suffered a 0.7% loss in real GDP in 2008 followed by a severe 5.2% loss in 2009. In contrast, the data for world real GDP growth was a 3.1% hike in 2008 followed by a 0.7% loss in 2009. [129]
Hace 2 días · Lastly, Earenfight contends that queens in early medieval Europe created and maintained good relations between the royal family and their noble subjects through gift giving and hospitality. The second chapter, ‘Legitimizing the King’s wife and bed companion’, focuses on the period between 700 and 1100, when kings became the pre-eminent lords of a given region.
Hace 3 días · Where conventional studies, focusing on Europe, and often under the shadow of the paradigm of the French Revolution, tended to write the history of the Church in the long 18th century as a narrative of decline and waning of influence, Hempton can conclude, with his world-wide focus, that ‘by the early nineteenth century the Christian west had emerged as the economic powerhouse of the world ...