The Medieval Crusades: Actually Fought Over Dionysean Worship
.... exists a tribe of
dedicated monks who,with their female counterparts,still engage in the
rituals of Dionysean worship,just as they have for centuries in their
mountaintop isolation. These are the chosen few who engage in the festivals
of uncontrolled drinking and the shared group enjoyment of their female
members characterizing their worship of this fun-loving God.It is to these
few that practice not the self-denial of the Christian Church,but rather
the indulgent,free-spirited way of the Dionysean following that the true
story of the Crusades is known.
While the historical accounts of the participants and the motives behind .....
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Effects Of The Great Depression On Canada
.... of wheat was still
available in 1929.
A good reason for the stock market crash in 1929 was that,
the values of stocks of the New York Stock Exchange were
grossly over-valued, but government and business appeared to
ignore the signs. 2
Canadian revenues that came in from export sales were dependent
largely upon the United States who had the money for growth; the
commodities were grain, pulp and paper and metals. Then when the New York
crashed on October 1929, stock prices fell dramatically. When the stock
market crashed, the Canadian economy suffered after the United States
invoked high tariffs to shu .....
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The Unification Of Europe Under The Maastricht Treaty
.... example, during the last several weeks in defiance of the
treaty Britain lowered it interest rates while Germany raised theirs. Both
to accommodate their own separate economies! This sort of unity does not
seem to me to set an example from which to abide by in the future.
Under the Maastricht Treaty one body will govern and regulate both
economic and political concerns. I find it hard to comprehend how one
governing body can do the work of twelve individual governments in a
continent whose culture and society are so diverse. If the nations now are
incapable of settling their internal problems how can shifting the immense
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The Shocks Of European Colonization
.... Indians out of their homes and set up their own
society.
The Africans brought over from Africa did not do so great either.
Portuguese pioneered the market for African slave trade and Africans have
suffered ever since. Due to an inadequate immune system, many Africans
were killed. By 1619, the first africans stepped foot on America. By 1672,
slave trading had gone out of control. Merchants captured 200 or more
Africans, hauled them on ships, and packed them in like sardines to ship to
the Americas where they would be auctioned off then forced to a life of
being a slave. In America, they had no legal rights because they .....
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The French Revolution
.... the monarchy to resume a "absolute power"
status as it did with Louis XIV. However this could not be accomplished
because of the doubt that the public had towards the present kings Louis XV
and Louis XVI, and the public could not be swayed to help. The only result
of the attempts for absolutism by the monarchy were a series of new and
increase taxes on the nobles. The aristocracy immediately reacted to these
taxes as declaring them unfair and would not accept them. Louis XV began
with a series of Financial advisors chancellors which all had the intention
of saving the monarchy from financial ruin. They made many attempts at .....
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The French Revolution
.... system
of government. The writings of the philosophes such as Voltaire and
Diderot, were critical of the government. They said that not one official
in power was corrupt, but that the whole system of government needed some
change. Eventually, when the royal finances were expended in the 1780's,
there began a time of greater criticism. This sparked the peasants notion
of wanting change.
Under the Old Regime in France, the king was the absolute monarch.
Louis XIV had centralized power in the royal bureaucracy, the government
departments which administered his policies. Together, Louis XIV and the
bureaucracy worked to pres .....
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Europe's The Great War For Empire
.... previously. King Frederick invaded another province,
Saxony, and this triggered another alliance between Austria and France with
the goal to totally destroy Prussia. There was also a growing conflict
facing France and Great Britain that would continue to increase in
momentum. This war was the prelude to what American would call "The French
and Indian War" in which these two European countries would fight for land
in the Americas.
The events of the War of Austrian Succession, fortuitously for France,
worked out exactly as Great Britain planned it. The French resources of
war were divided between the Americas and the f .....
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The Dreyfus Affair And Its Cause
.... was one of
the main figures in the unravelling of the Dreyfus affair, he was the
officer asked by his supervisor to look into Dreyfus's motives. Picquart
found many flaws and peculiar things,in his research and in March 1896
another letter which they called the "petit bleu," was intercepted by
French intelligence. This puzzled Picquart, an investigation was now to be
ordered on Esterhazv, who's name was found on it. Esterhazv, a captain of
regiment, had been constantly applying for General Staff Intelligence and
he was being backed by a familiar figure, Major Hubert Henry.
At this time France's state was being questioned .....
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The Holocaust
.... of the Germans in WW1, the Treaty Of Versailles
and the UN resolutions against Germany raised many militaristic voices and
formed extreme nationalism.
Hitler took advantage of the situation and rose to power in 1933 on a
promise to destroy the Treaty Of Versailles that stripped Germany off land.
Hitler organized the Gestapo as the only executive branch and secret terror
organization of the Nazi police system. In 1935, he made the Nuremberg Laws
that forbid Germans to marry Jews or commerce with them. Hitler thought
that the Jews were a nationless parasite and were directly related to the
Treaty Of Versailles. When Hitler beg .....
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The Idea Of Humanism And The Renaissance
.... in Education of the Renaissance were inspired at
first, by the desire of Humanists to be wise and to speak eloquently. The
idea of useful education for the people, and very "well rounded" schooling
in many different fields of learning were the new defined goals of
Renaissance education. People all over (Especially in Florence) revived
the Ancient Greek studies of Plato, Aristotle, and many others. People
began seriously questioning what these people said and re-developed the
"Scientific Theory" in which you didn't just accept whatever was said to
you, but you tested the truth of it.
In the area of Humanism and the Arts, R .....
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Japan: After World War II
.... new ho uses were built, each house was standardized at 216 square
feet, and required 2400 board feet of material in order to be built. A
master plan for a modernistic city had been drafted, but it was cast aside
because of the lack of time before the next winte r. The thousands of
people who lived in railroad stations and public parks needed housing.
All the Japanese heard was democracy from the Americans. All they cared
about was food. General MacAruther asked the government to send food, when
they refus ed he sent another telegram that said, "Send me food, or send me
bullets."
American troops were forbidden to .....
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Jewish History
.... live in Ghetto's which were separated from the main
city. Hitler's plan of genocide was carried out with efficiency. The
total number of Jews exterminated has been calculated at around 5,750,000.
In Warsaw ,where approximately 400,000 Jews had once been
concentrated,was reduced to a population of 60,000. They,virtually unarmed,
resisted the German deportation order and had held back the regular German
troops equipped with flame throwers,armoured cards, and tanks for nearly a
month. This heroism was similar to the revolt which took place around
165BC. This uprising was led by the Maccabees, a provincial priestly
family ( .....
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