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Monasteries were important in the Medieval era for a number of reasons
1. They were the libraries of the era. Monasteries were important repositories of books, especially prior to the invention of the printing press.
2. They were the printing presses of the era. Monks were often engaged in the tedious task of hand copying books to ensure their survival
3. They were a great place to offload extra children of the royals. Third and Fourth sons of Dukes and Earls would often get sent to Monasteries. This ensured orderly succession and a lack of battles over who should inherit.
During the 1950's, the US had adopted a policy of containment. The goal was to stop the spread of communism on a global scale. This included giving financial and military aid to countries who might fall into the hands of a communist government. A perfect example of this would be South Korea.
During the early 1950's, North Korea (a communist country) invaded South Korea. America, worried about the spread of communism, wanted to ensure that South Korea stayed free of this communist system. To do this, the US helped convince the United Nations to intervene in the conflict between North and South Korea.
Before the act of emancipation was approved in July 1776, the Thirteen Colonies and the Kingdom of Great Britain had been at war for more than a year. Relations between the two had deteriorated since 1763. The British Parliament enacted a series of measures to increase taxes in the colonies, such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Act of 1767. The Legislative Body considered that these regulations were a legitimate means for the colonies to pay a fair share for the costs of keeping them in the British Empire.
However, many settlers had developed a different concept of the empire. The colonies were not directly represented in the Parliament and the settlers argued that this legislative body had no right to assign taxes. This fiscal dispute was part of a greater divergence between the British and American interpretations of the Constitution of Great Britain and the scope of Parliament's authority in the colonies. The orthodox view of the British - dating back to the Glorious Revolution of 1688 - argued that Parliament had supreme authority throughout the empire and, by extension, everything that Parliament did was constitutional. However, in the colonies the idea had developed that the British Constitution recognized certain fundamental rights that the government could not violate, not even Parliament. After the laws of Townshend, some essayists even began to question whether the Parliament had any legitimate jurisdiction in the colonies. Anticipating the creation of the Commonwealth of Nations, in 1774 the American literati - among them Samuel Adams, James Wilson and Thomas Jefferson - discussed whether the authority of Parliament was limited only to Great Britain and that the colonies -which had their own legislatures- they should relate to the rest of the empire solely because of their loyalty to the Crown.
