The religion in medieval Africa was a very important part of the daily lives of the people. It was unlike the religions in Europe and Asia, but it was much more primitive, locally or regionally based, and it was still mostly based on totems and animism.
The religion's role in this societies, in this period of time, was to bind the members of the society together and to create a sense of unity between them.
<span>As we celebrate the 272nd birthday of Thomas Jefferson, this <span>excerpt from Jeffrey Rosen and David Rubenstein's pamphlet about the “Constituting Liberty” exhibition </span>puts the Declaration of Independence in context.</span>
When the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in 1775, it was far from clear that the delegates would pass a resolution to separate from Great Britain. To persuade them, someone needed to articulate why the Americans were breaking away. Congress formed a committee to do just that; members included John Adams from Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin from Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman from Connecticut, Roger Livingston from New York, and Thomas Jefferson from Virginia, who at age 33 was one of the youngest delegates.
Although Jefferson disputed his account, John Adams later recalled that he had persuaded Jefferson to write the draft because Jefferson had the fewest enemies in Congress and was the best writer. (Jefferson would have gotten the job anyway—he was elected chair of the committee.) Jefferson had 17 days to produce the document and reportedly wrote a draft in a day or two. In a rented room not far from the State House, he wrote the Declaration with few books and pamphlets beside him, except for a copy of George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights and the draft Virginia Constitution, which Jefferson had written himself.
The Declaration of Independence has three parts. It has a preamble, which later became the most famous part of the document but at the time was largely ignored. It has a second part that lists the sins of the King of Great Britain, and it has a third part that declares independence from Britain and that all political connections between the British Crown and the “Free and Independent States” of America should be totally dissolved.
The preamble to the Declaration of Independence contains the entire theory of American government in a single, inspiring passage:
Family relationships, gender roles and society's demographics changed much as life transitioned from a rural, agricultural economy to an industrialized, urban economy.
In rural agricultural life, families lived and worked together on farms. Wives managed the household as well as doing farm work. Large families with a number of children were common, because children helped in the operation of the farm. Families worked hard, but they did so together as families.
As the Industrial Revolution began, families moved to cities for work in factories. Family members all worked--but now not together on a farm. Family members went to work in separate factories or separate areas of a factory. They worked very long hours, and time spent at home was mostly just for overnight sleeping. Women and children became heavily employed outside of the home setting, as factories hired women and children as much as men -- sometimes more readily so, because they could pay women and children lower wages.
Demographics began to shift also. There was a large increase of city populations over rural population. Family sizes also began to shrink in Western, industrialized societies. In farming life, the labor of children on the farm was worth more than the cost of caring for children. In the industrialized cities, machines were taking the place of human labor more and more, and child labor began to be replaced by machine processes. Birth rates went down in the industrialized world.
Militarism of the Germans is the main cause of World War I. Germans
became aggressive on militarism and they want to control over the world.
European nations have negative comments about militarism and this is a prone to European nation
to be apart.