According to Michael Stanford, author of “A Companion to the Study of History,” chance is something that can not be forseen, or explained. [1] “William’s immediate feeling when he heard the news from England was of outraged pride, and I think that must have remained the prime cause of what he did,” Howarth writes. [2] According to William of Poitiers, a Norman who served Duke William, and numerous sources mentioned in Howarth’s book, William was promised the crown of England from King Edward. [3] William of Poitiers is considered a reliable source because he wrote Gesta Willelmi only a few short years after the campaign of 1066, but unreliable due to his involuntary bias towards the Normans. Howarth also
The Ancient Greeks are the most significant to western culture because of its creation of different types of government, ideas on philosophy, and the impact of Hellenistic culture. If you think of America you think of mainly one thing, democracy. The Athenians invented democracy. Athens was founded around 500 B.C. Athenians were the first ones to give power to someone who they think will actually be good for that job, and not simply due to noble blood or force.
Quarry Bank Mill was first established by a young textile merchant, named Samuel Greg in 1784, and soon it developed into a flourishing industrial settlement. He was born in 1758 and he came from a very wealthy family. He was adopted by his uncle, Robert Hyde who lived in Manchester. Robert Hyde was a successful cloth merchant. In 1780, Robert Hyde asked his nephew, Samuel, into partnership and promised him that he would inherit the business.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on May 27, 1794 and was also an American industrialist and philanthropist. Vanderbilt made his fortune in the shipping and railroads industry. He was also the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family and one of the richest Americans in history. He provided the initial gift to found Vanderbilt University, which is named in his honor. Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-grandfather, Jan Aertson or Aertszoon, was a Dutch farmer from the village of De Bilt in Utrecht, Netherlands, who immigrated to New York as an indentured servant in 1650.
While David was two years old, his father immigrated the family to Spanish Florida, and they were one of the first family to settle. His father of wealthy stature purchased over 50,000 acres in Jacksonville, Florida and became a well-known landowner (C. W. Yulee). His intentions were to build a “New Jerusalem” for Jewish settlers. He named the city of Yulee in Levy County after the family name. By the age of nine, his father sent him to attend a private school in Norfolk, Virginia, which was managed by an English clergyman and other wealthy Virginian scholars.
Hailey Collins Period One Jan. 19, 2014 Brunelleschi Some people look around Florence and see many different sights and attractions. There are many things in this world that are beautiful but the most show stopping of them all in my opinion is the Santa Maria degli Angeli also known as El Duomo (built in 1436). The mastermind behind this cutting edge architecture was Fillipo Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi was a highly thought of Middle Age architect who shared many of his learning’s with the community around him to make some magnificent structures still standing today. Brunelleschi was born in 1377 in Florence, Italy where he later died in April 15, at the age of sixty-nine.
John and Mattea Cabot had three sons named Ludovico, Sebastiano, and Sancto. He traveled to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and visited Mecca while employed by a Venetian mercantile firm. While becoming very skilled in navigational techniques, he pictured the possibility of reaching Asia by sailing westward. This idea occurred to both Columbus and Cabot, and was probably
The ancient Greeks contributed philosophy, art, math, and democracy to Western Civilization. To begin, art made a huge impact on future societies; thoughts used today. For example in Document 8, Sculptures were in male
Quattrocento also known as the Italian Renaissance was a pivotal time for individuals in the art world. Many artist were discovered and are still considered famous today. These pioneer artist displayed a presence of scientific, cultural and economics through christianity putting forth techniques and ideas that are still used currently.The most renowned 15th century frescoes would be The Sistine Chapel. It is a perfect example of linear perspective in Perugino's Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Peter. Some of the most important collection of Renaissance painting would be that of Federico da Montefeltro who helped Urbino flourish in art and culture and commissioned perhaps the largest library in Italy with the paintings in Monefelto's court displaying the first theoretical treatise on perspective.
Renaissance Person Biography: Amerigo Vespucci Jon-Michael LaMonda HI-104 August 11, 2013 Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, navigator, and cartographer, and was the first to demonstrate that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia’s eastern outskirts, but represented an entirely new continent previously unknown. The exact date of Amerigo Vespucci’s birth is a topic of much debate among historians, but the location of Florence is unquestioned. “In Amerigo’s case, although the place was unquestionably Florence, the date is less certain. Births of two infants of the same name, to the same parents, were registered at about the right time, within two years of each other. The first was presumably a victim of infant mortality.