Answer:
The correct answer is B) Jan van Eyck who painted the famous Giovanni Arnolfini
Explanation:
Jan Van Eyck was a 14th Century painter who is credited with revolutionize painting and art in Northern Europe. Born in modern-day Belgium, he was soon recognized as a master painted and was employed by the Aristocracy of his time to develop their personal portraits.
One of this most famous surviving paintings is that of Giovanni Arnolfini known as the The Arnolfini Portrait from 1434.
The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. The American and French Revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment ideals and respectively marked the peak of its influence and the beginning of its decline.
I discovered that a key moment in Roman history was a very little-discussed raid by pirates on the Port of Rome at Ostia.
Rome was at that point the dominant world superpower, and there was no state in the world that would ever have dared to attack Rome. But the Romans were attacked by a group of stateless desperados who set fire to the Port. The flames may well have been visible in Rome itself. And this sent a shockwave through Rome, because if pirates could strike that close to the imperial capital, nowhere was safe.
And in this panicky atmosphere - an atmosphere of panic, I might say, which was deliberately whipped up by ambitious politicians - the Roman people took a series of fatal steps, surrendering some of their liberties and some of their control over their government. And in doing so, they sewed the seeds of the destruction of their own democracy.
And the more I looked at that event, the more it seemed familiar to me and the parallel with 9/11 - and in particular the response to it.
The statement that best describes the United States' changing role in the world during the twentieth century was E.<span>It became a military superpower in the world but lacked a strong economy. The reason for the non strong economy was due to the Great Depression, and financial crisis of the 1920's.</span>
Answer:
A red cross on a white mantle
Explanation:
The red cross that the Templars wore on their robes was a symbol of martyrdom.
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