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6 08, 2017

Margaret Cavendish – European Philosophy

By |2019-03-07T16:06:05-08:00August 6th, 2017|Modern Europe, Philosophy|Comments Off on Margaret Cavendish – European Philosophy

Margaret Cavendish Who was Margaret Cavendish? Margaret Cavendish was a little younger than Hobbes and Descartes, but she knew both men. She had many philosophical debates with them when they were all living [...]

6 08, 2017

Mary Astell – European philosophy

By |2020-01-09T19:25:12-08:00August 6th, 2017|Modern Europe, Philosophy|Comments Off on Mary Astell – European philosophy

Mary Astell Mary Astell's backstory Unlike the slightly older Masham, and most other Enlightenment philosophers, Mary Astell was not from a really rich family. Who was Damaris Masham? Enlightenment philosophers European philosophers [...]

4 08, 2017

British Bill of Rights – European government

By |2019-02-14T20:41:55-08:00August 4th, 2017|Government, Modern Europe|Comments Off on British Bill of Rights – European government

Beginning of the Bill of Rights How much power did British rulers have? Ever since King John agreed to the Magna Carta in England in 1215 AD, people in England had agreed that the king [...]

6 07, 2017

Hellenistic and Roman government in Greece

By |2019-08-08T23:08:47-07:00July 6th, 2017|Government, Greeks, History|Comments Off on Hellenistic and Roman government in Greece

Hellenistic government: Philip of Macedon Philip of Macedon In the 300s BC, Philip of Macedon conquered Greece. He ruled all of Greece as the king. (In theory Philip was only leading a league of Greek [...]

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