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    The Modern Age

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    The Modern Age appeared when people began to evolve from medieval times, lasting throughout the centuries and into today’s society. It’s not about birth anymore; who you were born to doesn’t matter. People are given so much more freedom than in the feudal times because compared to the Middle Ages, when brute force was dominant, the Modern Age is based upon what people can do, intellectually more so than physically; which lets them become anything they want. But when did this starting happening? Who

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    Middle Ages

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    middle ages in Europe (476 CE-1500 CE) were a backwards period of stagnation and scientific degeneracy, caused by the brutal suppression of science by the evil Catholic Church, and eventually overcome due to the work of enlightened thinkers such as Galileo and Newton. This idea of these ‘dark ages’ has existed since the 14th century, and has continued to gain popularity through the early modern era as historians used it to compare their ‘enlightened times’ to the ‘dark and primitive ages’ of the

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    Coming Of Age

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    Many children are forced to begin their own life journey without an adult guiding them mainly because of traumatic events or life-threatening circumstances. Coming of age is a time of adversity and misfortune in a child’s life. Various unknown obstacles become inevitable throughout a child’s life which causes innocent children to rapidly mature, forcing them to become their own support system and feeling the need to overcome their situation in order to become an adult. On the other hand, obstacles

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    Age Of Exploration

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    seventeenth century is known as the age of exploration. The age of exploration was when countries’ main goals were to find trade routes and convert the unconverted. Two big contributors to this era was Spain and Portugal. Both countries were active in finding trade routes and new trading routes. Finding trade routes to India turned caused both countries to find parts of the “new world”. Spain and Portugal contributed similar but also different items to the age of exploration. Exploration played a

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    Age Of Reason

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    Throughout the years, there has been different changes to our country. From the Age of Reason to today there were different beliefs and ways of thinking. These two time periods have differences and similarities in their values. At the very beginning, to when our country started, took a lot of courage., Tto go from one country and start a whole new one took a lot of time and work. The Age of Reason was an eighteenth-century movement. It represented a genesis in the way man viewed himself, the pursuit

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    The Middle Ages

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    The Middle Ages seemed to be, as Charles Dickens stated in A Tale of Two Cities, “the best of times, and the worst of times” (4). From a mysterious disease known as the "Black Death" that wiped out around 20 million people in Europe (almost 30 percent of the continent’s population) to a complete rebirth of European thinkers, writers and artist, the Middle Ages were absolutely dramatic times. But how do we know? Through the works and pieces that were left behind. Pieter Bruegel’s painting, Triumph

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    The Age Of Exploration

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    The Age of Exploration or Age of Discovery was an important period in European history. This era lasted from the late 1400’s to the 1700’s. This era was important because this started overseas exploration popularity. Even though England started late in exploration, King Henry VII sent John Cabot to explore other countries in 1497. As a result, England gained profits from its wool trade which benefited England. England was one of the most influential countries during the Age of Exploration because

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    Age Stratification

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    many attributes; according to Arredondo Biological differences can produce, directly or indirectly, social stratification by factors such as age, gender, race, or socioeconomic status. Age stratification and ageism are very closely related; one cannot exist without the other. Age stratification separates people into three primary groups according to their age; the young, the old and the rest. Ageism is the process of systematic

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    Age Of Enlightenment

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    During the 18th century, many things were happening and the Europeans who were also known as “Enlightenment thinkers and philosophers” thought by creating a movement called Age of Enlightenment, it would inflict rational change upon humanity. The Age of Enlightenment is described to be “set out by means of reason and direct observation to discover the fundamental laws governing nature, humanity, and society. The philosophes believed that such discoveries would free the world from tyranny, violence

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    The Age Of Enlightenment

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    The Age of Enlightenment was a movement in Early Modern Europe lasting from about 1650 to 1780. The Enlightenment is characterized in which new ideas were brought about by intellectual forces to emphasize reason and individualism. ‘Enlightenment thinkers throughout Europe questioned traditional authority and embraced the notion that humanity could be amended through a rational change’ . It was a time period in which thinkers believed that humanity, through the use of reason, was beginning to gain

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