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    In the early 1636, the place where the Chinese kings live, the construction of the Chinese garden architecture first started, when the Chinese emperor chose a city as the earth and the use of financial resources in his hands. The King’s builder’s team started building the Yu palace garden building, which has a beautiful grand mansion that provides the emperor with a place to live in. The Yu Garden is primarily located in the Yellow River basin in South China, in the Beijing area. This is the product

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    when the king of england started to abuse his power towards the people and also his nobles. He had the power to do almost anything he wanted. And he was getting large amount of money without telling the nobles about it and deciding fate of people in court without a jury. And king john then lost a battle against france and needed the support from his nobles and they told him to sign the royal charter so that the nobles could protect their own personal rights and the peoples rights. How did religion

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    separated into high,middle, and low class. The Egyptians had several social class levels. At the top of the class levels was the pharoh, nobles, and priests. The pharoh was elevated to god status and had absolute power. They had many responsibilities such as army director and they were buried in pyramids. Below him were the social elite or nobles and priests. Nobles had government jobs. Priests were to please the gods and both ¨enjoyed great status and grew wealthy,¨ states Ancient Egypt Egyptian Social

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    and believed in Enlightenment ideas of equality and liberty. She abolished torture and established religious tolerance; granted nobles a charter of rights and criticized the institution of serfdom. Joseph II- Supported religious equality for Protestants and Jews in his Catholic empire; ended censorship by allowing a free press, attempted to bring Catholic Church under royal control, abolished serfdom, and sold property of monasteries not involved in education or care for the sick and used the property

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    capital of Elam, located in a fertile agricultural area. Darius I is credited with transforming the city into the administrative capital for the Persian kings. It was accessible to Babylon, Ecbatana and the eastern parts of the empire. Identify three Royal Palaces in this period Susa, Pasargadae and Persepolis Who or what was Bel Marduk? Bel Marduk was the principal Babylonian God at the time of the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus the Great. Bel Marduk is honored in Babylon for bringing order to the

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    irresponsible and careless leaders. Absolute Monarchy in France: Louis XIV An Absolute Monarch Rises Soon after Louis XIV became king, disorder again swept France. In an uprising called the Fronde, nobles, merchants, peasants, and the urban poor each rebelled in order to protest royal power or preserve their own. On one occasion, rioters drove the boy king from his palace. It was an experience Louis would never forget. When Mazarin died in 1661, the 23-year-old Louis resolved to take complete

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    nineteenth century with the title "Latin American Art: The Representations of Indigenous Figures." The exhibition will include art from Mexico, and address how indigenous figures were represented as common Indians, Indians from the Conquest, and as noble Indians. In this essay, I am going to provide the layout of the exhibition, along with curatorial texts and information about

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    factions within the French Royal Academy known as the Poussinistes and Rubenistes. Inspired by the work of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), the Poussinisties believed that artwork should primarily appeal to the mind and that consequently, the use of colour served only a decorative purpose. Such a view is consistent with a sense of elitism that can be identified within the works of Poussin. For example, the artist was a classicist who chose to represent historical figures in a noble and serious fashion, imploring

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    Kings Introduction: In the book series, A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin, published in 1998 and is still unfinished up to this writing, the power struggles to get the iron throne between many characters are portrayed. The desire of many nobles to rule Westeros turned in a war between self-crowned kings while on the other side of the Narrow Sea is the last surviving person of an old family that used to rule before the rebellion planning to claim the iron throne for her own and for the revenge

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    leads to many of them adopting different styles. We will examine four main forms of governments in this essay and later examine how the city-states in ancient Greece practiced these forms of governing. These forms are monarchy,

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