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Epic World History: Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Expanding the world into first global age. Eleanor of Aquitaine was born in 1122 to William X, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou, and Aenor, daughter of the viscountess of Châtellerault. At the death of her younger brother, Eleanor became the wealthy heiress of Aquitaine. Groomed by her father, she frequently accompanied him on trips throughout his lands as he administered justice and faced down rebellious vassals. Eleanor was frequently able to convince Louis to intervene in affairs that concerned h...
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Epic World History: Pope Urban II
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Expanding the world into first global age. Urban II launch first crusade. Born in France to a noble family, Urban II was elected pope in 1088 when the papacy was still in exile from Rome. He did not enter Rome. As pope until 1094. Urban had been educated in church doctrine and had served the church in France and Germany as a papal legate. Urban supported reforms to draw the clergy away from worldly pursuits and toward monasticism. Thus Urban II launched the first of many Christian crusades against Muslim...
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Epic World History: Anti-Jewish Pogroms
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Expanding the world into first global age. There were telltale signs that things were about to change in the century before the First Crusade. Jews were accused of colluding with the Muslims to destroy the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, undertaken in fact by the mad Caliph Hakim in 1009. When Pope Urban II. Though many bishops and priests tried to protect them, it is estimated that up to 10,000 Jews who lived in settlements around the Rhine and Danube Rivers perished. Cities affected incl...
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Epic World History: Taira-Minamoto Wars
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Expanding the world into first global age. The Taira-Minamoto wars, which led to the firm establishment of the shogunate as Japan’s military government, began in the middle of the 12th century. At this time power in Japan was almost evenly divided between two families of feudal nobility, or the daimyo class, the Taira and the Minamoto. In 1156, the first skirmishes took place in the Taira-Minamoto struggle when the clans fought in both sides of an imperial succession dispute known as the Hogen incident, ...
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Epic World History: Richard I - King of England
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Expanding the world into first global age. Richard I - King of England. Richard I leading forces on the Third Crusade. Richard I (r. 1189–1199) was the third son of King Henry II of England. And Eleanor of Aquitaine. Known as “the Lionhearted” because of his numerous military exploits, Richard became king of England and Normandy when Henry II died in 1183. Within a year he was leading forces on the Third Crusade. And after the city fell Philip returned to France. Following their earlier pattern of conque...
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Epic World History: Louis IX
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Expanding the world into first global age. Zealous and dashing, chauvinistic and impulsive are all terms that describe the reign of Louis IX, king of France. He showed heroic virtues of character, but he also seemed blind to the contributions of people who did not share his own values. He took action against corruption, but he also had complicated relations with Jews and Muslims. Captured in 1250 he was freed when he pledged to give up his conquest in Egypt and pay a huge ransom. He remained in Syria...
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Epic World History: Kamakura Shogunate
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Expanding the world into first global age. The Kamakura Shogunate was a government established by Kamakura Shogunate at the end of the Gempei War, which had lasted from 1180 until 1185. The shogunate lasted from 1185 (or 1192, when it was formally recognized by the emperor) until 1333. Because the Minamoto family lived at Kamakura, the new order was called the Kamakura Shogunate, although many sources refer to the period as the Minamoto Shogunate, after the founder’s surname. They also managed to get oth...
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Epic World History: Onin War in Japan
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Expanding the world into first global age. Onin War in Japan. Onin War in Japan. The Onin War came about directly as a result of the declining power of the Ashikaga Shogunate. The Ashikaga Shogunate, or military government, had been founded in 1336–37, by the astute Ashikaga Takauji. Takauji had been sent by the Hojo shoguns. He accompanied Go-Daigo into the imperial capital of Kyoto. The Ashikaga shoguns were such patrons of the arts that the style of the period derives its name from the Muromachi Distr...
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Epic World History: Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Japanese General
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Expanding the world into first global age. Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Japanese General. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a Japanese lord who completed the unification of Japan begun by Oda Nobunaga and launched two invasions of the Korean Peninsula. Despite his power, Hideyoshi did not assume the title of shogun because by tradition that office had been held by a member of the Minamoto clan. However, with a faked geneology, he assumed high court posts, including that of chancellor, ruling from Kyoto, but also buildi...
