.... times. The strong middle class now consisted of bankers and merchants. No longer were the merchants on the bottom of the chain. Of course the political leaders and the church officials were still on top. The theme of education was strongly stressed during this time. The most highly respected subjects were theology, law, and medicine. Scholars also stressed humanities which are grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history. Many important people were involved during the Renaissance. Such as Lorenzo de’ Medici who was the ruler of Florance. He brought 200 ancient Greek works from Constantinople to Florance, some of which have never been seen before. Anothe .....

.... there in the first place or what of the countless forms of life that had sprang forth from its protective purview over the decades of the tree’s history. I wondered what might have led to the demise of the strong anchoring system that had so obviously sustained the uprightness of this tower for so long. Not to mention what a scurry for life itself must have taken place by the multitude of creatures that were no doubt within the danger zone as tons of falling wood rushed earthward. Notwithstanding the magnitude of this event and the obvious lasting effects that resulted, I still wondered if “the falling tree had made a sound?” When the life of Ludwig van Bee .....

.... planets against the fixed position of the stars. Shortly after Archimedes, Ctesibus created the Clepsydra in the 2nd century BC. A more elaborate version of the common water clock, the Clepsydra was quite popular in ancient Greece. However, the development of stereography by Hipparchos in 150 BC. radically altered physical representations of the heavens. By integrating stereography with the Clepsydra and the celestial sphere, humanity was capable of creating more practical and accurate devices for measuring time-the anaphoric clock and the astrolabe. Although Ptolemy was familiar with both the anaphoric clock and the astrolabe, I believe that the development .....

.... 40,000 men. They suffered about 10,000 casualties- that were killed, wounded, captured, and missing. Of the more then 70,000 Union troops that were present during the battle 12,000 were lost. Many times in this battle it seemed as if a Northern victory were certain and there were no Confederate reserves remaining to oppose their advance. Too much time had been wasted and the last Confederate division, that had been left at Harper’s Ferry to supervise the surrender of the garrison, was approching the battlefield. They came upon the flank of the Union forces and drove them back. At the end Confederate generals urged Robert E. Lee to retreat, but he r .....

.... and the country was free to expand toward the Pacific Ocean. The price wa $15,000,000 for an area of 828,000 square miles (2,145,000 km) - less than 3 cents an acre. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte got Spain to return it by a secret treaty. Napoleon planned a French empire in the New World, with its center at New Orleans. President Jefferson was alert to the dangers of a powerful nation controlling the mouth of the Mississippi. He instructed the American minister to France, Robert R. Livingston, to open negotiations to buy New Orleans and some territory east of the city. A treaty would have to satisfy the financial claims that some United States citizens had .....

.... War II. Truman’s policy helped the recovery and reconstruction of western Europe, but more importantly they help contain the rapid spread of Communism, such policies were the hallmark of the cold war. Seeking to carry out Roosevelt's policies, Truman brought to fruition the plans for the unconditional surrender of Germany, which came on May 8, 1945 and the establishment of the United Nations. He attended the UN founding conference in San Francisco in late April. Truman made the decision to use atomic bombs against Japan, believing that they would end the war quickly, save lives, and place the United States in a position to revolutionize Japanese life. Two .....

.... couldn't run from the white man with more than one child. The Indians also seemed to have an affinity for music, that is how father Gabriel kept them from killing him earlier in the movie. A person in the film also said “we could have taken the entire island if we had an orchestra.” Practices could also be added to what Captain Rodrigo was forced to do in order to renounce his former ways. Captain Rodrigo Mendoza, a mercenary and slave trader who first came to the top of the water fall in order to capture Indians for slave, was later one of Father Gabriel’s closest followers. Captain Rodrigo’s penance or self-punishment was to carry a huge bag of armor up the h .....

.... the number of his subjects. He is very stubborn about letting people out of the underworld. himself, rarely leaves the underworld. In one myth, however, we know of a time when he did leave his soulful domain. became very lonely in the underworld, and went above and kidnapped Demeter’s daughter, Persephone, for his wife.Persephone, nonetheless, was not ’ only significant other. had a mistress called Minthe whom Persephone later transformed into a plant. is also known as the god of wealth due to the precious metals mined from the earth. He has been said to possess a helmet that was given to him by the Cyclops. This helmet has been said to make .....