England was effectively bankrupt and on the edge of internal demise via privet feuds. The battle of St Albans can be pinned as the marking point for the start of the war,, but this would be highly unconventional to blame the conflict on one point such as this, as many other factors had been building up to this event since 1427 such as when Henry VI came of age. He was known as a puppet King, led by the government. It was this governmental rule that caused chaos amongst England and divided it as such, hope for the king to rule England efficiently with an iron hand seemed like an improbable dream. There was a massive loss of resources and income after the recline of land in France, leading to the powerful men of England to take arms in aid of their lords this lead to the battle of St Albans The weakness of royal power can be pin pointed to the king.
Each pope excommunicated his rival's followers and courted kings for support, thus starting a rift within the Church that made an already uneasy situation worse. The problem was not resolved until 1417, when the Council of Constance restored order to the papacy. Significant damage to the prestige of the papacy, however, remained and helped set
These factors include weaknesses in politics, international reputation, national unity and culture. To evaluate the significance of the North-South divide it is important to access the extent of which the problem rooted itself into the liberal state, and how detrimental this was. The North-South divide was primarily a weakness of Italy’s economy, accompanied with other economic issues that faced the liberal governments. In the late nineteenth century, Italy was still predominantly agricultural and its industrial development was limited compared to Britain, France or Germany. Agriculture tended to be inefficient and backward, particularly in the South where the ‘latifondi’ dominated.
Chapter 27 summary It was expected that the influence which Luther left in England would remain, but King Henry VIII who reigned until his death in 1547, was a bitter enemy of the reformed faith. He had no love to the Protestant doctrine and worship. He had received permission from the pope to marry Catherine of Aragon after the death of her previous husband, Henry’s brother. But, his love for her decreased as she failed to give birth to a living son for the heir to the kingdom. Henry asked the Pope to declare that the papal permission given him to marry Catherine was contrary to the law of God and that he wasn’t truly married to her, but the pope wouldn’t give in.
This led to Russia being in the control of the German Alexandria, who was hated by the Russian people because of her inability to speak Russian, her reliance on Grigory Rasputin, a mystic who claimed to heal her son, her antisocial, depressed attitude and a general political incompetence to rival Nicholas’s. This was a terrible mistake because it broke the faith of the people, and setting them against their leaders, which would result in them conspiring to bring down the tsardom. This last mistake of Nicholas II turned the people against him, his dynasty, and his tsardom, and the people reacted by causing the downfall of the Romanov
The Treaty of Versailles was not a fair peace treaty because it took land away from a country who rightfully owned it. Germany had Alsace-Lorraine, Eupen and Malmedy, Northern Schleswig, Hultschin, West Prussia, Posen and Upper Silesia taken away from them. Also, their military was cut down
Eugene of Savoy and Churchill of England led the alliance to victory over Louis. The war was concluded by the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, which forbade the union of France and Spain. The war ended French expansionism and left France on the brink of bankruptcy, with widespread misery and
In the 16thc, Ivan IV the Terrible expanded the territories of R eastward after finding westward expansion blocked by Swedish and Polish states. A. Ivan also extended the autocracy of the tsar by crushing the power of the R nobility, known as the boyars B. Ivan’s dynasty came to an end in 1598 and was followed by are surgence of aristocratic power in a period of anarchy known as the Time of Troubles. It did not end until the Zemsky Sobor, or national assembly, chose Michael Romanov as the new tsar, beginning a dynasty that would last until 1917 II. In the 17thc, Muscovite society was high stratified. At the top was the tsar, who claimed to be divinely ordained autocratic
Assess the proposition that WW1 was primarily responsible for the downfall of the Tsarist regime in Russia in 1917. The arrival of WW1 had a significant influence and was the catalyst to the demise of the Romanov dynasty in 1917, however the attitude of the Russian people lead on by centuries of heinous conditions and unfair ruling by the Autocracy of the Romanovs had ultimately shaped the downfall of the Tsarist Regime. Events such as Bloody Sunday, introduction of Grigori Rasputin and the Bread riots (the events of early 1917) were primary causes to the collapse of Tsarist power in Russia. One of most imperative and essential events contributing to the collapse of Tsarist autocracy in Russia was on the January 9th 1905, the Bloody Sunday protest, the result of the events on January 9th 1905 played an essential role in the revolution of 1917. This protest took place in St Petersburg and was peaceful and contained, however due to Tsar Nicholas II’s drastic predetermined demands the order to kill caused the death of up to 1000 people including women and children.
Another complaint was that King John angered the Roman Catholic Church, which led to every church service in England being banned and the Pope excommunicating him. With this the people and barons were scared. The Catholic Church taught that the people could only ascend into heave if the Catholic Church believed that the people