Why did Wolsey fall from power in 1529? Thomas Wolsey was Henry VIII’s Lord Chancellor and he held many positions within the government and clergy. Starting off with a humble background Wolsey worked his way up the country’s hierarchy and became the most powerful man in Britain. However it all went wrong for Wolsey and a culmination of factors ended up with his fall from grace in 1529. Wolsey’s rise to power was a mixture of both luck and skill.
“The Man Who Dies...Rich Dies Disgraced.” A Captain of Industry is an innovator whose business practices and charitable contributions bridge both industry and society, which is unlike Robber Barons, who achieved fame and fortune through dishonest unscrupulous means. Generally speaking, a Captain of Industry is a man who generate money, while Robber Barons exploit money. Andrew Carnegie, millionaire and philanthropist, the man who revolutionized the steel process and created an empire, was a Captain of Industry, because he made sound investments throughout his life, funded public libraries and churches, and endowed many other organizations. As a youth, Carnegie’s schooling ended when he left Scotland, and he only had a few years of it. He later tried to make up for his lack of a formal education with self-study; he gained access to private libraries, read voraciously, and learned skills that got him numerous promotions before the age of 17.
Not only was this an astute political move, it was also a necessary service provided to those who kept Rome safe. While Caius’s public reforms did much to help the Roman people, what truly set him apart as a social reformer were his actions outside of the Roman political sphere. In his second term as tribute, Caius left his house on the Palatine Hill to live in the market place with the common people of Rome. He left his life of luxury to live a common life among his constituents so that he could better serve their interests. This shows Caius’s strong political sensibilities, as well as his dedication to employing social reform to make Rome a better place for all of its’
After this feat Caesar went back to Rome. When Caesar was a young man, he went to the island of Rhodes to learn oratory. While on his way to the island, he was captured by pirates and the pirates demanded a ransom of gold in order for Caesar to live. “When messengers were sent for the money, Caesar promised himself that he would hang his captors someday. When he was released he collected a naval force then found the pirates, and killed them(Bruns 23-34).” This ordeal shows that Caesar had a lot of influence for a private citizen holding no power in a political office.
His last aim was the succession. Henry would need a male heir so as to secure the throne for the Tudors. The first of Henry’s aims to be completed was to start the differentiation between himself and his father. In April 1509, just as he had become ruler, he had two of his father’s most powerful men arrested; Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson, and a year later the two were executed. Henry had done this so he could abolish the Council Learned in Law, meaning that he could cancel 175 bonds his father had put in place with his Nobles.
Cromwell’s early life consisted of him entering Wolsey’s service in 1516 when he became a counsellor. He was known for being a flamboyant man due to him being well travelled (round Europe), but also could speak fluently in Italian. This seemed to be an advantage when rising to power – becoming Henry’s chief minister. Overall, I believe Cromwell didn’t to a full extent create a revolution in government due to his continuous failures, but in addition the fact that (it is believed) he only improved a medieval government and not completely changed it. There are some particular reasons of why Cromwell didn’t carry out a revolution, but Cromwell’s improvements in government should be explored so that a true opinion can be decided on Cromwell.
Marcus Aurelius’ time as an emperor, Ancient Rome was living in harmony and the empire was very rich and big and the military forces was strong and united as well as the senate. With many nations under their command, Ancient Rome was at their top of the history during his reign. After his death, the country became destabilized because his son was not a strong leader and he was corrupted. During the time of Aurelius’s son reign, corruption started to be seem more than ever. Another event that showed the decline of Ancient Rome was when the empire was split into two nations with two emperors.
Emperor Wu was one of the longest reigning emperors in Chinese history, ruling from 141- 87 B.C.E., partly due to his ingenious ideas and austere policies that he implemented during his time as ruler. Emperor Wu quickly discovered that the cost of running a large empire and army was exorbitant and came up with policies to help fund them. Responding to popular demands for lower taxes, Wu lowered duties for the people and in its place he erected dozens of iron foundries and salt mines that he monopolized. (Comegna, 2016). As a result, prices for these commodities escalated and led to populace unrest and calls for the policies to be abolished.
The 18th amendment contributed to the rise of organized crime because it created a lot of underground business. From killings to people living in poverty, that’s what the prohibition caused. If people really thought that prohibiting alcohol to be sold leally were going to help the way that people lived during this time, they were wrong. A lot of people were against the law, they argued that if they banned alcohol legal businesses were going to go broke and that was not going to help the economy get better. But alcohol was not the only thing breaking families apart they said, after the war, soldiers would come home and find themselves in a whole, struggling to find jobs.
Plenty of political power and perhaps more importantly the struggle around Machiavelli with lots of different factions looking to take control of the principality. Machiavelli was very much a simple man from a simple background. He spent his life as a mid-level government employee, working quite comfortably within the Florence republic until it collapsed in 1507, and then was exiled out, and accused of treason. This is when he found time to write the book “The Prince”, which he wanted to give to the government of Florence, the Medici Family. This can also be proven by the fact that the book was dedicated to Medici’s Grandson.