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German Peasants' War
The German Peasants' War (1524-1525) was a conflict between the lower class of the Germanic region of the Holy Roman Empire and the nobility over the feudal system of serfdom, religious freedom, and economic disparity. It was later characterized...
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Social Contract
The social contract is an idea in philosophy that at some real or hypothetical point in the past, humans left the state of nature to join together and form societies by mutually agreeing which rights they would enjoy and how they would be...
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State of Nature
The state of nature is an idea which became especially popular with certain philosophers during the Enlightenment, notably Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). It refers to a state of existence...
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Castle Johannisburg
Johannisburg Palace, the second residence of the Electoral Archbishops of Mainz until 1803, is located in the centre of Aschaffenburg on the banks of the Main, Bavaria. The mighty four-wing complex, built between 1605 and 1614 under Archbishop...
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The Port of Calicut in 1572
An illustration showing the port of Calicut on the southwest coast of India in 1572. Calicut was a major trade hub for the Eastern spice trade. From Georg Braun and Franz Hogenbergs atlas Civitates orbis terrarum.
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Portrait of the Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna (Catherine the Great)
Portrait of the Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna (the future Catherine the Great) around the time of her wedding, oil on canvas by Georg Christoph Grooth, 1745. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Scanned by Mrlopez2681 from the...
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The Burning of Troy
Oil painting by Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–1769) called Blick auf das brennende Troja.
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Tsar Peter III & Catherine the Great
A Portrait of Tsar Peter III and his wife, the future Catherine the Great, oil on canvas by Georg Christoph Grooth, c. 1745.
Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Odesa, Ukraine.
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Ludwig van Beethoven in 1823
An 1823 oil on canvas portrait by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
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Kilwa Map Illustration
An illustration of the trading city-state of Kilwa on the Swahili Coast (modern Tanzania) which flourished between the 12th and 15th century CE. (From Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg's 'atlas Civitates orbis terrarum', vol. I, 1572 CE)
