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…of taxes. The issue of the “tribute children” is another iffy issue. Suleiman makes it evident that religious tolerance was unheard of in the 16th century. Removing rural Christian families from their homes and converting them to Islam is not a noble…

…Byzantine Architecture The architecture of the Byzantine Empire was based on the great legacy of Roman formal and technical achievements. Constantinople had been purposely founded as the Christian counterpart and successor to the leadership of the old…

…martyr is more applicable to our day than to any other day in the history of the world. During this century alone, more Christians have been killed for their faith than in all the previous centuries combined. In 1969 eye-witness reports were received…

…. But the humanitarian motive was strong, too. Anti-slavery sentiments began to appear in Europe in the 18th century with roots in Christian religious principles and in the egalitarian philosophy that emerged during the Age of Enlightenment. By 1750 abolitionists were…

…of their personal backgrounds and experiences. For example, Emerson was the son of a Boston Unitarian minister who attended Harvard College (1817-21) and studied as well as preached the Christian word. Before becoming a successful writer…

…that have Christian characterized figures made out of them. As the philosophers desire to know more so did the doctors. The knowledge at this time was that of Galen. Doctors such as Andreas Vesalius and William Henry were two such doctors that desired to know…

…) It needs to be asked as to whether most Australians have thought about the implications of a "truly multi-cultural society"? At the moment many Australian traditions are based upon our Christian heritage; but in a truly non-discriminatory multicultural society…

…Amereica. I think that the European explorers were very greedy and selfish. One of the reasons that they went to the New World was to convert people to Christianity, but instead they just killed them off or made them into slaves. They saw them as pagans…

…held over the people. Through examination of Machiavelli’s The Prince, and Martin Luther’s Christian Liberty, their different views on the individual, God, and the state will be compared and contrasted to better understand their issues with the Catholic…

…in society. People believed that by accepting the hardships there were in life, and devoting themselves to God, they could expect a better afterlife. However, at the start of the Renaissance, people began to question the ideas of Christianity. The church…