Essays on Medieval Europe

The need for success and power motivated Europe to move towards imperialism. By focusing on China, India, and Africa, this essay will argue that a state’s response to European imperialism in the nineteenth century until WWI grew out of its previous interactions with Europe after…

Imperialism was a time period where a mother country or a larger country would take over and colonize smaller less developed countries. The mother countries took advantage of the underdeveloped countries’ resources and land. As a result, many countries lost independence, however, they also received…

In France, people were having trouble with the Monarchy. This is because the King put higher taxes on food like bread, which only affected the 3rd Estate. So the third estate decided to get help from the Estates-General who doesn’t allow one-sided power. However the…

The Reign of Terror turned into a radical event in the course of the French Revolution with Maximilien Robespierre and Jean-Paul Marat. This event, depending on the perspectives might be justified, unjustified and through and largely justified. This length of the time had many executions,…

35,000 people were unnecessarily killed by contradicting officials. The French Revolution was basically a period of time with social norms. These social norms included the first estate, the second estate, and the third estate. The first estate was the priests, the second estate was the…

During the mid 1500’s to the mid 1700’s Colonial Europe including the towns Ipswich and Andover felt thee negative effects of the Renaissance and Reform movements. Many in Europe were unready for such big religious and cultural changes. Along with these changes came the rising…

Imagine yourself living in Salem, Massachusetts. The year is 1692. You consider yourself to be an upstanding citizen of the community. You have a spouse, children, and a lovely home. You attend church every Sunday and work hard the other six days of the week….

These vivid sentences are the word of God, quoted by the German reformer Andreas Karlstadt von Bodenheim in his 1522 sermon ‘On the Abolition of Images..’. Envisioning an actively cleansed and reformed church, Karlstadt draws from their ancient authority to strengthen his call to action….

The well fabled Salem Witch Trials took place around 1692, in a time and place copious of hysteria, condemnation and prosecution. During this early modern time period, science and the elements of the renaissance had already been taken to a place where it had not…

Freedom of religion in America is something we take for granted today, but centuries ago people fought long and hard and even died horrible deaths for the right to believe what they wanted. During the sixteenth century, the most powerful authority in western Europe was…