Genesis 1:7 || Meditate the Scripture daily verse by verse
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2. THE SILK ROAD AND SEA ROUTES. WHILE EUROPE WAS IN THE “DARK AGES” ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND NORTH AFRICA HAD ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS THAT INTERACTED THROUGH TRADE AND EXCHANGED CULTURE.
3. THE EUROPEAN FEUDAL ESTATE SYSTEM A HIGHLY STRATIFIED SYSTEM WITH LITTLE, IF ANY, SOCIAL MOBILITY. PEOPLE LOWER ON THE HIERARCHY ARE FARTHER FROM GOD AND ARE LESSER BY VIRTUE OF WHERE GOD HAS PLACED THEM. THEY ARE HUMANS, BUT INFERIOR HUMANS. FEUDAL LAW COMPLIES WITH THIS “THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING”: COSMIC HIERARCHIES CORPORATE STATUSES
11. MEDIEVAL CATHEDRALS WERE CONSTRUCTED OVER A PERIOD OF DECADES. THE ARCHITECTS, ARTISTS, CRAFTS PEOPLE, AND WORKERS WHO BUILT THEM ARE ANONYMOUS. CHARTES CATHEDRAL, FRANCE 1220 to 1260 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMcmyJ8lmE4&feature=related
15. SINGLE WOMEN DURING THIS ERA HAD FEW WAYS TO EARN A LIVING. MANY BECAME MIDWIVES AND HEALERS, USING HERBAL REMEDIES FOR AILMENTS. THERE WAS NO TOLERANCE FOR PEOPLE WHO WERE DIFFERENT, SUCH AS WOMEN WHO — DUE TO LIFE’S CIRCUMSTANCES— HAD NO HUSBAND OR FAMILY AND LIVED ALONE.
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17. The Malleus Maleficarum , The Hammer of Witches , is a treatise on prosecuting witches comprised by two Dominican inquisitors, Kramer and Sprenger in the mid 1400s. It is a comprehensive witch-hunter’s handbook first published in Germany in 1487 that grew into dozens of editions, spread throughout Europe, and had a great impact on witch trials for 200 years. It was not endorsed by Protestant or Catholic church officials. However, its authors forged an endorsement, and it became a number one “best seller” of its era.
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19. GUTENBERG IS CREDITED WITH INVENTING THE MOVEABLE TYPE PRINTING PRESS AROUND 1450. BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, PAMPHLETS, ETC., BECAME MORE AVAILABLE AND AFFORDABLE. THIS FOSTERED LITERACY AMONG PEOPLES OTHER THAN THE CLERGY AND THE ARISTOCRACY, WHICH—IN TURN—EVENTUALLY, WITH THE ENLIGHTENMENT MOVEMENTS, STIMULATED INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, AND SOCIAL DIALOGUE.
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22. MICHELANGELO’S DAVID . (1501 – 1504) HE IS STANDING IN A CONTRA POSTA POSE WHICH DESIGNATES AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT, SELF-DIRECTION. DI VINCI’S VITRUVIAN MAN (1487) EXPRESSES HIS CONCEPT OF PERFECT PROPORTIONS. THE TEXT ADDRESSES ANCIENT GREEK ARCHITECT VITRUVIUS WHO ASSERTED THE IDEAL HUMAN BODY CORRESPONDS WITH GEOMETRY , THUS IS THE CORRECT MODEL FOR ARCHITECTURAL PROPORTION.
25. 1500s THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION CHALLENGED AND ERODED THE POWER OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN EUROPE LAUNCHED A NEW SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SYSTEM
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33. 1791: QUEEN OF THE NIGHT FROM MOZART’S OPERA THE MAGIC FLUTE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ODfuMMyss
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38. THE ENLIGHTENMENT TABLE | | | | | / / OTHER NOT FULLY HUMAN HUMAN THERE WERE CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN ENLIGHTENMENT IDEALS OF LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND FREEDOM--THE POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR SELF-GOVERNING CIVIL SOCIETIES--AND “WESTERN” NATION STATES’ CONTROL AND ENSLAVEMENT OF IMPERIAL SUBJECTS, IN ADDITION TO THE NEW CLASS HIERARCHY OF CAPITALISM. TO RESOLVE AND JUSTIFY THIS, A NEW MODEL OF “BEING” EMERGED.
