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I can go into further details if requested, but "TL;DR" answer is:
After Luther agitated that "Jews didn't convert to Christianity because Catholics treated them badly, and would convert if you treat them better", Jews still didn't show any great willingness to convert.
Here's one supporting quote (context was Luther's refusal to intercede on Jews's ...
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According to Ivan Gobry's Martin Luther, Luther thought that
Sin is undefeatable, for lust will inexorably take residencde in each of us, therefore, to condemn oneself to celibacy, intending to please God, is to engage in self-deception and hypocrisy.
Gobry also says that Luther believed the requirement that priests and monks stay celibate to be an ...
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MOST of Flanders is contained in present-day Belgium. (Small pieces are held by France and the Netherlands.
Flanders became part of the Hapsburg Empire when Maximilian of Austria married Marie of Burgundy. They actually lost Burgundy to France, but managed to keep most of Flanders and Marie's other possessions (e.g., today's Netherlands). They had a son, ...
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The answer is yes. While both the strength of fortifications and terrible mistakes from the Ottomans (I would also count the great determination and strategy of defenders as a third condition) played a highly important role, during the siege, Hospitallers used also a kind of defensive weapons that were unavailable to any other forces of their times.
I ...
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According to this site: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2042196 Ivan the Terrible killed at least 60,000 people during his reign, but only publicly admitted to 3,750 people. Doing further research at this (http://www.guidetorussia.com/ivan-the-terrible.asp) website shows that the 60,000 killed was during a single event, so there was quite possibly many more ...
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No one will give you the exact number.
Some historians, for example, tells about 200,000 or even 700,000 killed in Novgorod, but at that time the entire population of the city was about 40,000.
Historian Ruslan G. Skrynnikov (1931-2009) in his books «Начало опричнины» (1966), «Опричный террор» (1969), «Иван Грозный» (1975) gives the number of 3,000-4,000 ...
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For many years, the Extremadura region was the border region between Christian and Moorish Spain. As a result, their inhabitants were quite literally "living at the edge." Hence they produced the largest number of "desperado" type conquerors.
It's like saying that America's most renowned Indian fighters (e.g. Buffalo Bill Cody or George A. Custer) were ...
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Here's what evidence they had:
The word "Croatan" carved into a post of the fort
The word "Cro" carved into a nearby tree
All the houses and fortifications had been dismantled (They weren't destroyed)
They didn't carve a Maltese Cross into any tree (John white instructed them to do so, if they were forced to move)
Because there was no cross, John White ...
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To quote Wikipedia's History of Flanders:
The County of Flanders was created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia. After a period of growing power within France, it was divided when its western districts fell under French rule in the late 12th century, with the remaining parts of Flanders came under the rule of the counts of neighbouring ...
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I have been travelling in Extremadura for the past 5 days. What strikes me is the large number of rivers, some surprisingly large in June, most navigable. ALS remember the Romans took the trouble to come here overland and of course the Moors and the Castilians marched and counter marched this terrain for centuries. A theory I will advance is that after the ...
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God said in Genesis 2:18, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."
Paul said in 1 Corinthians 7:1-2, "Now for the matters you wrote about: 'It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.' But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife..." (Ever notice ...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delhi#Early_history shows that the city was called Delhi (or Dilli) at least since the 12/13th century.
Therefore, when Akbar assumed throne in 1556, the city would have been called Delhi.
There are however more concrete sources than this simple extrapolation. Humayun Nama refers to the city as Delhi. You can read it ...
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Depends slightly what you mean by a Gentleman.
Somebody that owned land and possibly had a minor local title would have a scaled down version of a nobelman's household. It gets a bit fuzzy because if they also farmed their own land they would have farm and estate workers, gardeners, foresters, shepherds, etc
A city merchant would obviously have a smaller ...
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According to data table http://hist1.narod.ru/Science/Russia/Crisis.htm#_edn7 for one community in NW Rissia, the main reason of population decrease in the catastrophe of 1570-1571 were taxes ( together with road works 50 cases of an owner disappearing/death), oprichnina as direct reason - 11%, hunger - 20, epydemies - 11.
So, minimally 2/3 cases of ...
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