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the code of knightly behavior, comes from many origins. In Middle English, the word 'chevalrie' meant 'mounted horseman'. In Old french, the word 'chevalrie' meant knightliness or 'chevalier' meaning knight. (Microft, Encarta) Almost all origins…

man theory" Proving herself to be a good deal more than ordinary, Jeanne d'Arc, the Maid of Orleans and patron saint of France, united her nation at a critical hour in history and decisively turned the Hundred Years' War in France's favor, forever…

be a successful ruler in his novel, The Prince. Machiavelli explains the best ways for a prince or any ruler to rule a territory, prosper the society, and maintain their position. The book was intentionally just for Prince Lorenzo The Magnificent, a…

His empire stretched from the Pyrenees Mountains to Bavaria, and from Rome to what we now know as Denmark . Between the time he received control of his empire to the time of his death, the amount of land under Charlemagne's control doubled in size thank…

#1: Assessing Written and Archaeological sources Factors which influenced an ancient writer - Thucydides A)How did Thucydides' experiences, aims and sources help him to write as accurately as possible? Thucydides' experiences in the war gave him…

of "climbing on the upper stairs of history" (by political, economic and cultural transformations) failed, too. Interestingly enough, it could be asserted that, during the 1989 changes, we have all witnessed the failure of, not one type of communism,…

a unified country. Nationalism played a ver large part in this unification process. If it hadn't been for the people of this region having a strong sense of pride for their country, Italy would still be split up into many nations as it was in the…

carthage and rome.the wars happened in different times and places and were called the "punic" wars because the romans called the carthageinians "Poeni".The first of the three wars started in 246 BC, and the last of the three ended in 146 BC. The…

aspect of ideologies that united ancient Rome and modern Italy in to one country or in to an Empire. The Roman Empire helped to colonize and bring the whole Empire to a whole by bringing patricians and plebians together by creating road, bridges,…

that first arose in the early part of the twentieth-century in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism is a philosophy or a system of government the advocates…