The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–now known as the Holocaust–came to fruition under the cover of world war, with mass killing centers constructed in the concentration.
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The plague had large scale social and economic effects, many of which are recorded in the introduction of the Decameron. People abandoned their friends and family, fled cities, and shut themselves off from the world. Funeral rites became perfunctory or stopped altogether, and work ceased being done
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The answer is A. An English king has a disagreement with the pope.
King Henry VIII in the 1500's wanted a divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon. This was not allowed under the Catholic faith which was the leading faith of the time in England and the Pope would not agree to allow him to divorce. Therefore the King created his own church - The Church of England allowing him to divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn.
The transcontinental railroad started on May 10 , 1869.