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Can someone give me a definition of absolutism and its political systems? I'm a week and a half late starting history (I dropped out of french), so I am very lost ^^;

Absolutism is probably refferring to the monarchies when the crown had all the power. No power of the feudal lords, the Papacy or Church, etc could interfere with their ultimate saying.

That's what it means in European history.

It's political systems were the idea that Kings were ordained by God, and it desolidified the idea that Pope had the final say and moved it to the power of countries. This also may have affected Nationalism and it's earlier forms.

Hope that helped?

quater wrote:Absolutism is probably refferring to the monarchies when the crown had all the power. No power of the feudal lords, the Papacy or Church, etc could interfere with their ultimate saying.

That's what it means in European history.

It's political systems were the idea that Kings were ordained by God, and it desolidified the idea that Pope had the final say and moved it to the power of countries. This also may have affected Nationalism and it's earlier forms.

Hope that helped?

Yup The rest of the class has already moved on to the enlightenment, so I was getting things a little mixed up ^^;

Aichu wrote:

quater wrote:Absolutism is probably refferring to the monarchies when the crown had all the power. No power of the feudal lords, the Papacy or Church, etc could interfere with their ultimate saying.

That's what it means in European history.

It's political systems were the idea that Kings were ordained by God, and it desolidified the idea that Pope had the final say and moved it to the power of countries. This also may have affected Nationalism and it's earlier forms.

Hope that helped?

Yup The rest of the class has already moved on to the enlightenment, so I was getting things a little mixed up ^^;

Hooray! First successful tutoring! GO Q!

Someone wanna tell me the differents between the Sunni's and the Shiites?

*Was absent when it was explained and forgot book*

Political System in Canada? ^^;;

slave trade..?

i got to write a story about it. :/ ... does anyone know something about it?

neon kun wrote:Political System in Canada? ^^;;

What part of it?

Sasori Kung fu masta wrote:Someone wanna tell me the differents between the Sunni's and the Shiites?

*Was absent when it was explained and forgot book*

Ooops! I didn't know you posted that here! I feel I let you down.

I know tons about the slave trade but GL there is more then one slave trade. Do you mean the American Slave trade or maybe the Subsaharan Slave trade or....I mean we have quite a few.

And as for the political system in Canada isn't it Parliamentary?

quater wrote:

Sasori Kung fu masta wrote:Someone wanna tell me the differents between the Sunni's and the Shiites?

*Was absent when it was explained and forgot book*

Ooops! I didn't know you posted that here! I feel I let you down.

I know tons about the slave trade but GL there is more then one slave trade. Do you mean the American Slave trade or maybe the Subsaharan Slave trade or....I mean we have quite a few.

And as for the political system in Canada isn't it Parliamentary?

Yup, that is our system

but what does it have to do with sunni's or shiites?

I thought they were tribes in Rewanda

amaterasu wrote:

quater wrote:

Sasori Kung fu masta wrote:Someone wanna tell me the differents between the Sunni's and the Shiites?

*Was absent when it was explained and forgot book*

Ooops! I didn't know you posted that here! I feel I let you down.

I know tons about the slave trade but GL there is more then one slave trade. Do you mean the American Slave trade or maybe the Subsaharan Slave trade or....I mean we have quite a few.

And as for the political system in Canada isn't it Parliamentary?

Yup, that is our system

but what does it have to do with sunni's or shiites?

I thought they were tribes in Rewanda

It doesn't- they're asking about two seperate issues.

Aichu wrote:

amaterasu wrote:

quater wrote:

Sasori Kung fu masta wrote:Someone wanna tell me the differents between the Sunni's and the Shiites?

*Was absent when it was explained and forgot book*

Ooops! I didn't know you posted that here! I feel I let you down.

I know tons about the slave trade but GL there is more then one slave trade. Do you mean the American Slave trade or maybe the Subsaharan Slave trade or....I mean we have quite a few.

And as for the political system in Canada isn't it Parliamentary?

Yup, that is our system

but what does it have to do with sunni's or shiites?

I thought they were tribes in Rewanda

It doesn't- they're asking about two seperate issues.

okay, I'm really confused on this.... what?

amaterasu wrote:

Aichu wrote:

amaterasu wrote:

quater wrote:

Sasori Kung fu masta wrote:Someone wanna tell me the differents between the Sunni's and the Shiites?

*Was absent when it was explained and forgot book*

Ooops! I didn't know you posted that here! I feel I let you down.

I know tons about the slave trade but GL there is more then one slave trade. Do you mean the American Slave trade or maybe the Subsaharan Slave trade or....I mean we have quite a few.

And as for the political system in Canada isn't it Parliamentary?

Yup, that is our system

but what does it have to do with sunni's or shiites?

I thought they were tribes in Rewanda

It doesn't- they're asking about two seperate issues.

okay, I'm really confused on this.... what?

...never mind.

Amaterasu not only did you look pretty smart right there they aren't in Rwanda they are in the Middle East Specifically most conflicts between them arising in Iraq and Iran. My goodness child.

they are different factions of islam they have different beliefs and if im right one of them if actually arabs and the others are something else

quater wrote:Amaterasu not only did you look pretty smart right there they aren't in Rwanda they are in the Middle East Specifically most conflicts between them arising in Iraq and Iran. My goodness child.

Well sorry.

I was thinking of the ones in Rwanda

Not so sure about the Arab thing.

Sunni's believe that any heir of the original 4 caliphs (The men chosen by Muhammud and in a lot of ways this split is similar to the split between Catholocism and Protestantism in how Catholocism views the Pope and Bishops as ultimate authorities and protestants believe all called into faith can lead) and pretty much any Muslim can lead the faith.

However Shiites hold true that only one who is heir to the 4th Caliph can lead. They also believe the 12th Imam who disappeared was the last legitimate ruler of Islamic affairs until Ayatollah regained power in 1978 (He was a very large terrorist and one of the fathers of modern day terrorism if you aren't in the know) is one such heir. Shiites also believe (As do possibly all muslims) that the end of the world will occur when the 12th Imam returns. To bring him back he will return when the world is in complete chaos to fix it, and so one way to hasten the end of the World (And with it the power of Muslims who will become supreme leaders over others when it occurs) is by creating chaos (This explains why many terrorists don't care for life because they think it's just how the end of the world works).

Basically Sunni's embraced that anyone can teach and lead a sect of Muslim faith and can lead in political affairs while Shiite's see only heirs of Ali Muhammud's 4th Caliph as real rulers.

Shiites are dominant in Iran but otherwise no real country then that and Sunni's are the much more dominant faith and are pretty much every other Islamic person in the Middle East.

The reason Sunni's and Shiites (And the Kurdz too) matter in Iraq is because while Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq he was a Shiite and Shiites held all real power. But with the turnover of Iraq into a democracy the Shiites lost their power and are now a minority to the Sunni's which they do not like at all. This lead to terrorism and many other atrocities to get themselves Back into power.

Anyway I hope I got all this right. And I know it's suuuuupah late suuuupah sorry.

amaterasu wrote:

quater wrote:Amaterasu not only did you look pretty smart right there they aren't in Rwanda they are in the Middle East Specifically most conflicts between them arising in Iraq and Iran. My goodness child.

Well sorry.

I was thinking of the ones in Rwanda

You are thinking of the Hutu and Tutsies.

The Tutsies were genocided in Rwanda by the Hutu.

What a madman

I'm a madman?

Nope, I was talking to the kid with the flashy avatars who posted above me

quater wrote:

amaterasu wrote:

quater wrote:Amaterasu not only did you look pretty smart right there they aren't in Rwanda they are in the Middle East Specifically most conflicts between them arising in Iraq and Iran. My goodness child.

Well sorry.

I was thinking of the ones in Rwanda

You are thinking of the Hutu and Tutsies.

The Tutsies were genocided in Rwanda by the Hutu.

ah, yes thank you

Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800's?

Parliamentary? thanks. can you expound on that? how it works, and how are the members elected? do they have a judiciary, executive and legislative branch?