With their superior tactical skills, the Greeks were able to defeat the Persians and take control of the waterways. The victory at Salamis turned the tide of the war, and gave the Greeks renewed confidence. Xerxes was devastated at this significant loss, and returned to Persia leaving his land army under the command of Mardonius. The Battle of Salamis was the most decisive conflict in the Second Persian War because the victory at Salamis paved the way to the ultimate defeat of the Persian army at the
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed millions of people, left families with nothing, and leveled cities. The war would have gone on for a couple more years if we had not dropped the bombs and sent troops to Japan instead. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. This is one of the pros for the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of the pros for dropping the atom bombs is that the Japanese would have not surrendered.
The Ancient Greece culture has made many contributions to Western Civilization. The Ancient Greeks affected government, fine arts, concept of armies, and medics. The Greek culture has had a very profound impact on the way people live and run their societies today. The biggest contribution from Ancient Greece is their government. Greece had the first known democracy.
CONSTANTINE’S RELIGIOUS POLICY Constantine’s religious policy under his reign was to keep peace throughout the whole of the Roman Empire by stopping the persecution of Christians and allowing paganism to be practised together with Christianity, as well as being a follower of Christianity and using his own power to help it spread across his empire. Constantine’s religious policy also evolved greatly throughout his reign, from being a follower of paganism to finally the emperor that was largely responsible for the spread of Christianity which is still the dominating religion in society today. Constantine’s major aspect of his religious policy was his attitude towards Christians. Constantine himself was a Christian, the first Christian Roman Emperor, and was the one that formally ended what is known as the “Great Persecution of Christians”, which happened (approximately) around AD 303. However, he did not just stop the persecution, but went far further and gave the Catholic Church finances it needed in order to spread around the Roman Empire.
The Greek army decisively defeated the more numerous Persians, marking a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars. The Battle of Marathon in 490 BC was the result of Persian revenge, after the Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria involved themselves in the Ionian Revolt from 499-493 BC. According to modern historian, Peter Green, the Persians sought to attack Athens with a fighting force of approximately 25, 000 men, of both foot soldiers and cavalry. The Athenians had to bring together their whole hoplite force to defeat the Persians. The Persian force was nearly double that of the Greeks, however due to Miltiades’ reliable expertise on Persian warfare, he was aware that the most elite soldiers would fight in the centre with the weaker ones at the wings.
However, before dropping the bombs, General MacArthur had estimated that about 31,000 American casualties would occur by invading Japan, and calculated that even fewer American lives would be lost by continuing with conventional bombing on Japan and establishing a naval blockade, eventually forcing Japan’s surrender within six months (CSIS.org). This suggests that although invading Japan might have resulted in more American casualties, a more utilitarian course would have been to take General MacArthur’s recommended course of action than to use nuclear weapons on Japan, which resulted in more than
The United States of America was not founded on Christian principles but on the enlightened principle of human rights, that all people are created equal, and endowed with certain rights, among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Many of the Founding Fathers were practicing Christians but they also saw Christianity becoming increasingly associated with systems of political oppression. They believed any one religion should not be forced upon its citizens and they made religious freedom the cornerstone of faith in the new republic. Their ideals are rooted in enlightenment ideals, trust of reason over revelation and emphasis on natural rights. They were part of the Age of Enlightenment that began in Europe and later came to the American colonies.
The third act gives power to the people to have their legislature appropriate provisions for public houses of worship and to support public religious teachers. The third act also stated that the legislature could command the people to attend the public religious instructions as long as the instruction is not offending to their beliefs. The third act closes by stating that every Christian denomination would be equally protected by law. The Massachusetts Declaration of Rights is a perfect example of religious toleration and it is exactly that: tolerant. The simple fact that the declaration gives power to the legislature to command the people to attend religious teachings is irrefutable evidence that Massachusetts felt that there should be a connection between church and state.
A new benefit that came from this was a more effective collection of royal taxes. Monarchy revived the urban police which helped keep bandits and crime to a minimum. When Ferdinand and Isabella conquered Granada they said that all must convert from their Jewish or other faith to Christianity. In order to ensure that the followers were converting faiths as told the Spanish Acquisition was created. The Spanish Acquisition was created by the monarchs and consisted of a church court authorized to examine the genuineness of people’s Christian faith.
By examining the various primary sources, lecture notes, and textbook, I conclude that the Roman world was transformed by the way people understood the relationship between religion and the state during this period because each leader believed in a different way to bring success and dominance over Western Europe causing Christianity to evolve in the Roman Empire. From 284 to 305 CE, Diocletian ruled as emperor of the Eastern Empire. Diocletian “appointed three men to share his rule” creating a tetrarchy government to provide more effectual governance over the empire by balancing authority and territory. He convened for Lactantius, master of Latin rhetoric, to teach rhetoric at the imperial government and to manage the “Latinity of the imperial court’s official documents;” thus making Lactantius an important eyewitness to Diocletian’s reign. According to Lactantius’s On the Deaths of the Persecutors, in February 303 CE, Diocletian launched the last persecution of Christians which denied Christians of all legal rights.