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    of the Middle Age In 476 CE, the Roman Empire was overthrown by the Germans, ended its rule in the western Europe for over a thousand years. In the 14th century, one of the world’s greatest cultural movement, the Renaissance, started to emerge from Italy and soon spread to the rest of the Europe. However, the scholars cannot find anything special to mark this transitional period from 5th to 15th century and so called it the Middle Age or the Medieval Era. Nevertheless, the Middle Age is not just an

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    The Church and the Middle Ages The Middle Ages were a period in Europe dating from the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, around the 5th century. However, the fixing of dates for the beginning and end of the Middle Ages is arbitrary. According to the Norton Anthology, "Medieval social theory held that society was made up of three 'estates': the nobility, composed of a small hereditary aristocracy,...,the church, whose duty was to look after the spiritual welfare of that body, and everyone

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    ‘Were the 1,000 years the Dark Ages lasted actually “dark”?’ is a highly debatable topic as some claim that the whole period was “dark” while others claim it was only “dark” for the early stages of it. Through textual evidence provided, the supposed 1,000 years of decline and decay known as the Dark Ages were not “dark” for the 1,000 years. According to the American Cyclopedia, the 1,000 year period did not support education, have creation of culture, any central government, and a bad economy

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    The Age of Reason in America was a revolutionary time in this country and American political activist Thomas Paine had big involvement in this. When the 1700s came to an end so did puritanism in America., Bbrilliant thinkers and scientists from the 17th century such as Galileo, Newton, Voltaire, Rousseau, John Locke and many more helped discover new ways of thinking and believing in reason over faith. This discovery, an evolution in America, helped explain a lot and correct many problems and conflicts

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    The United States faced serious social problems during the late 19th century. This time period was later named the Gilded Age because the problems seemed to be veiled by thin coat of gold. Although the Gilded Age brought great wealth among many and new products and technology for the middle class, it did nothing for the poor but keep them working in dangerous conditions with low pay. Most Americans wanted political and social reforms due to the greed in the marketplace and corruption in politics

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    Background: The population ageing phenomenon has started in many of developing countries like Iran. Most developed countries have accepted the age of “65” years as a definition of “elderly”, but some developing countries like Iran consider the age of “60”. We aimed to compare the physical and mental health of people who aged 60-64 years with those who aged 65-69 years in order to determine if the definition of elderly in our country is true. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted between

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    suffered and had limited freedom. In the dark ages there was many factors that were involved such as feudalism , the role of women in dark ages , religion in medieval england , and medieval arts and culture and the legend of king arthur .This led to an economy always marked by poverty, sometimes famine, extreme exploitation and wide gaps between rich and poor. In the dark ages there were many changes from now days they were difficult times. The middle ages was a period of massive social change, burgeoning

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    Late Middle Ages, Europe endured several calamities which led to an overwhelming sense of crisis. Three specific types of crises will be discussed in order to better examine our main idea—those being crises in the physical world, society and government, and the Church. In understanding the problems people in the Late Middle Ages faced, we can better understand their downfall and hope to improve upon how we recognize problems in our own society. A clear crisis people in the Late Middle Ages faced happened

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    The “coming of age” experience is a melting pot of emotions. Each individual experiences their own set of varying emotions that come to life when a person reaches a tender age when these changes occur, whether physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual. It is the age in which the question of identity arises as the person begins to formulate who he or she would be. It is also the age in which a person is mistaken on who they are. This short period is significant as the person explores who they

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    you know that a lot of people back in the Middle Ages did not have a lot of authority. There were many different roles people played back in the Middle Ages. The people were lords, ladies, teenagers, nurses, friars, pages, and servants. Their roles are way different then times today, because we do not have all those special names for everyone. For instance Lord’s were a great thing back then if you were strong enough to be one. In the Middle Ages lords were a big part to society. They were expected

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