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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"city-states"”.
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The Florentine Guilds
… the formation of guilds was not confined to the city-states of Tuscany, England, France, Germany, Spain and other parts of Italy were the seats of these effective corporations,
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What Rome Really Adopted from Ancient Greece
<p>The Roman conquest of the Greek city-states and the appropriation of many aspects of its culture, especially architecture and art, is well known. But what of the many great philosophies that began in the various city-states of Ancient Greece? This piece is made in attempt to answer this …
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ΣΤΑΣΙΣ-ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΣ-ΝΕΩΤΕΡΙΣΜΟΣ-ΚΙΝΗΣΙΣ: ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ ΟΡΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ
… TO DENOTE THE INTERNAL CONFLICTS OF GREEK CITY-STATES. MORE SPECIFICALLY IT HAS BE ATTEMPTED:1) TO PRESENT THE HISTORICAL FACTS INDICATED BY EACH ONE OF THESE TERMS; 2) TOPOINT OUT THE DIFFERENT IMAGES ALLUDED TO THE USE OF THE RELEVANT TERM, AND 3)TO DEFINE THE MEANING OF THESE IMAGES AND …
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At the Sea's Edge: Revisiting the Origins of Native Seamanship in Southern Arabia
… of Ptolemaic Egypt and that of the Mesopotamian City-States, when southern Arabia was peripheral to the earliest organized civilizations. It is concluded that although maritime resources were always utilized to some extent, there was insufficient social, political or economic support to have …
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Political Petrarchism: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Community in Early Modern Italy
… he addressed to leaders of prominent Italian city-states attempting to reconcile old friends. This study presents an analysis of the rhetorical strategies underlying Petrarch's career as public intellectual, diplomat and poet.
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Pietro Bembo’s Bias: Patronage, History, and the Italic Wars
… internal discord between rivaling duchies and city-states. Florence and Venice both faced internal and external discord due to the constant wars and political in fighting. Venetian Pietro Bembo wrote historical accounts of this period during the Renaissance. His contemporaries, Marino Sanudo, …
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Mercenaries in History and the Modern Era: Impact of the Privatized Military Industry on U.S. Security Interests
… self-perpetuating cycle of decline, leaving the city-states vulnerable to eventual subjugation by Philip of Macedon. The Carthaginians were defeated in the Second Punic War as a result of mercenary use. Mercenaries numbers were limited, and more importantly, their use reflected a weak commitment …
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State interactions in archaic Greece
… not determine other forms of networking between city-states, nor are political interactions readily visible in the archaeological record. Furthermore, I suggest that there was a greater degree of planning and targeting of markets in the formation of the economy of archaic Greece than has been …
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Lucca in the Signoria of Paolo Guinigi, 1400-1430
… This was the age of the rise of regional states in Italy, and the expansionistic aims of Milan, Florence and others were a constant challenge to city-states such as Lucca which desired a political and cultural status quo. Yet, it was a challenge that was successfully met; unlike Pisa, …
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The Response of Elite European Merchant Companies to European Expansion into Asia and the Americas, c.1492-c.1530
… mostly from southern Germany and the Italian city-states, who dominated the European trade in Asian and American goods, whose capital funded Spanish and Portuguese royal policies overseas, and whose agents played crucial roles in establishing the Spanish and Portuguese empires and colonial …
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Power to the People? Cities, Citizens, and the German Energy Transition: A Comparative Case Study of Hamburg and Berlin
… - Germany’s largest urban centers and leading city-states in the country’s federal system - as case studies, the research examines how citizens’ initiatives in both cities have campaigned for the remunicipalization of local energy networks to expedite, democratize, and incorporate social …
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Venture investing and city development : a look at Singapore
… capital markets have altered the strategies of city states that wish to be financial/regional economic centers. This thesis examines venture finance in detail and looks at the case of Singapore repositioning itself as the center of venture finance in this regard. First we understand the …
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Bucolic Architecture: Hellenistic Pastoral Temples in the Peloponnese
… and more easily accessible temples within the city or predominant sanctuary. The Peloponnese is rich in such modest rural temples, all exhibiting architectural similarities which I will show point to not only a specific architectural style in this region but a multi-functional role of these …
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We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age
… wielding fire, to sedentary agrarian city-states, to modern, urban technological societies engaged in global-scale management and ecological degradation. This thesis offers a critique of the notion that all human beings are represented in the cumulative impacts that have been …
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We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age
… wielding fire, to sedentary agrarian city-states, to modern, urban technological societies engaged in global-scale management and ecological degradation. This thesis offers a critique of the notion that all human beings are represented in the cumulative impacts that have been …
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Protestant jurisdictionalism and the nature of puritanism, c. 1559–1642
… context of Protestant kingdoms, territories, and city-states codifying and enforcing church discipline according to established law, and under the supreme authority of the Christian magistrate. While previous historical scholarship has focused on the ‘disciplinarian’ tendencies of pre-1640 puritan …
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Surveilling Sin: Locating Sodomy in the Early Modern Florentine Bathhouse
… anxiety throughout early modern Italian city-states. Citizens feared for their safety: a sodomite in their midst could provoke divine wrath, as it had in the biblical narratives of Sodom and Gomorrah—sexual sins could lead to urban destruction. Police forces were created to surveil and …
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Gold, Grain, and Grace: Piety and Community in Late Medieval Rome
… was that when Boniface IX took control of the city in 1398 the local elite was no longer inclined to fight for communal autonomy, as they had as recently as the late 1340s. Thus, understanding the ways religion and the social order were entwined with one another in fourteenth-century Rome …
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A Study of Fifth Century Persian Administration in Western Anatolia and Eber Nari
… the Phoenician provinces and the area of Ionic city-states. In particular, works covering the Persian administration of these regions is lacking. This thesis is an attempt to synthesize and compare the Persian administration of these two regions.
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