I am in history class and I would like to know the definition of the word Rosetta Stone ?

1 answer:

4 0

The Rosetta Stone is a stone discovered in 1799, that is incredibly important as it is considered the first guide in deciphering Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Its current location is The British Museum, on display.

You might be interested in

Desiderius Erasmus said in a letter to Sir Henry Guildford in 1519:

kolbaska11 [484]

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that was born in Florence, Italy, and aimed at transforming the dogmatic thinking of the time through the ideas of humanism. This means seeing the world in different ways using art, philosophy, science and politics to create a new vision of man and his role in the world. The deep sleep to which Erasmus refers is the backwardness that was lived at the time in the sixteenth century that was due to the obscurantism in which dogmatic and rigid ideas predominated, for which the rebirth was the awakening of society in which knowledge becomes the fundamental pillar and no longer religion. In this way the theocentrism is abandoned and this allowed for example the discovery of new lands that would later be colonized, discoveries are made in astrology and revolutionary ideas arise as those of Copernico and his heliocentric theory.

8 0

3 years ago

WHAT DOCUMENT WAS PRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND WHAT WERE THE MAIN IDEAS CONTAINED WITHIN?

LenaWriter [7]

Answer:

The National Assembly produced a document called, "the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen." It was about all the natural rights people had. Such as ;

Freedom of speech.

Freedom of religion.

Equal justice.

3 0

2 years ago

Read 2 more answers

Describe the consequences of westward expansion for native Americans and the natural world of American west

dybincka [34]

Native Americans were continually pushed out of their homeland and much of the natural world of the American west was destroyed to make way for the settlers

7 0

3 years ago

Who did parliament remove from power in England during the glorious revolution?

topjm [15]

The Glorious Revolution, also called the Bloodless Revolution, was when Parliament overthrew King James II and installed his daughter Mary and her husband William as the new rulers of England.

4 0

3 years ago

What did homer plessy believe would protect his constitutional rights, even as a black American?

scoundrel [369]

Answer:

<h2>The 14th Amendment</h2>

Historical background/details:

After the Civil War, in 1868, the 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution. It stipulated that no state in the United States shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

In the decades after the Civil War, however, states in the South began to pass laws that sought to keep white and black society separate. In the 1880s, a number of state legislatures began to pass laws requiring railroads to provide separate cars for passengers who were black. At the heart of the case that became Plessy v. Ferguson was an 1890 law passed in Louisiana in 1890 that required railroads to provide "separate railway carriages for the white and colored races.”

In 1892, Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 black, bought a first class train railroad ticket, took a seat in the whites only section, and then informed the conductor that he was part black. He was removed from the train and jailed. He argued for his civil rights before Judge John Howard Ferguson and was found guilty. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court which at that time upheld the idea of "separate but equal" facilities.

Homer Plessy was correct in his convictions, though. The 14th Amendment really did protect his consitutional rights. It just took a while for the nation to come to terms with that reality. Several decades after Homer Plessy's case, the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision was overturned. Brown v. Board of Education, decided by the US Supreme Court in 1954, extended civil liberties to all Americans in regard to access to education. The "separate but equal" principle of Plessy v. Ferguson had been applied to education as it had been to transportation. In Topeka, Kansas, Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit after the public school district refused to enroll his daughter in the school closest to their home, making her instead take a bus to a blacks-only school. Other families joined the Brown family lawsuit. When it went to the level of the Supreme Court, there were other cases from other parts of the country that the Supreme Court combined with it. The full name of the case at the Supreme Court level was Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al. The arguments were heard before the Supreme Court in 1952 and 1953, and the Brown v. Board of Education decision was issued in 1954. The standard of "separate but equal" was challenged and defeated. Segregation was shown to create inequality, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled segregation to be unconstitutional.

The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection to all citizens. This was what the Supreme Court said was being violated by states whose laws supported the segregation of schools. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment reads as follows:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

5 0

3 years ago