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fact that your daughter Antigone has gone against your ruling and buried Polyneices, and that you have condemned her to death. I am writing this letter to strongly urge against the death of your daughter. Antigone is your daughter, and Polyneices…

Renaissance styles is known as the Elizabethan age. It reached its peak in the late 1500s, toward the end of the long reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and is often considered the last phase of the long- lasting Tudor style. Although the Elizabethan…

queen Elizabeth, robbing and pillaging the Spaniards. Over this period of 200 years many shipments of gold and treasure were stolen from Spanish ships while they were sailing from port to port on the Spanish main. In one attack the infamous Francis …

(Machiavelli) Indeed, this is true, as war has been a part of human culture since the beginning of time. Battles will be fought and wars will wage on; there is nothing that can be done. No matter how many pacts are signed, no matter how extraordinary…

I have ever been forced to live through.         The Soviet Union had begun to regroup. It was not immediately joined by the smaller and weaker nations that made up the northwestern region of the union.         The independent…

was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. - He was born at Greenwich on June 28, 1491. The first ruler to be educated under the influence of the Renaissance, he was a gifted scholar, linguist, composer, and musician.- He was gay and…

had lost, a revolution occurred. This being the second after an unsuccessful one in 1825. It appeared that discontent with the public would cause Czar Nicholas II to form a constitutional monarchy. change such as this one would not have satisfied…

began in the early 17th century in the Holy Roman Empire and eventually most of Europe. The basis of the war began as a conflict between the Protestants and Roman Catholics and their different views concerning how the corrupt Roman Catholic Church…

European scholars were always learning and always curious. Many people learned about the world around them, and also they had education involved in their lives. Much of the Roman empire before this time had much control and great power. Their…

the second half of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression against opposition elements within the Communist Party. The machinery of coercion had previously been used only against opponents of…