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In addition, there were schisms both within Rome and between Rome and its Italian allies.


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The trend favored military commanders, who began pursuing exclusivity.


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The first such was Sulla (d. 78 BCE.)


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After him came Julius Caesar, who after conquering Gaul (present-day France) defeated Pompey in a civil war and effectively became a monospace, but was assassinated by republican senators in 44 BCE.


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His successor Octavianus defeated the Senatorial Party, received the title Augustus and was elected Imperator.


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Although he formally tolerated the laws of the republic, he ruled practically as a monopoly and the Roman Empire had emerged.


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[5] This became clear under his successor Tiberius.


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The establishment of the Empire brought clear advantages to the provinces, which may have appealed to the emperor against local authorities instead of corrupt senators.


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Furthermore, Roman citizenship was slowly extended to provinces and jurisdiction became less arbitrary.


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The Roman Empire was further expanded somewhat in the Imperial period; for example Claudius annexed Britain 47 partitions..


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In the first and second centuries, there were some civil wars (for example by the Four Emperors in 69) and rebellions (such as the Judean Uprising, which ended with the takeover of Jerusalem in 70 and started the Jewish diaspora).


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Decay and loss The internal state of the kingdom slowly deteriorated, which was reflected in crises in the third century, when economic difficulties, barbarian invasions, and civil wars almost led to the dissolution of the Empire.


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It was saved by Diocletian (284—305) and Constantine (306—337), who moved the capital to Byzantium, changing its name to Constantinople, thus initiating the division of the kingdom into the western and eastern part.


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Constantine also stopped opposing Christianity.


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Christianity became the state religion under Theodosius I in 380.


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The Great Internationals broke the defences of Western Rome, and the Vandals and Goths eradicated the kingdom for good in the 4th century.


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Medieval Goths, Byzantium and Langobards the Visigoths conquered Italy in the 4th century and Alarik plundered Rome in 410.


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By the end of the century, the peninsula was for the most part controlled by the Ostrogoths, and Odovakar sacked in 476 the last emperor of Western Rome, Romulus Augustus.


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In 493, Teoderik the Great overthrew Odovakar and became king of the Ostrogoths.


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The capital of his kingdom was Ravenna.


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Byzantium, or Eastern Rome, invaded Italy in the early 5th century and Emperor Justinian I's generals Belisarius and Narses conquered the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths after years of war in 552.


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These Gothic Wars destroyed most of the surviving urban culture.


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The departure of the Byzantine armies allowed another Germanic tribe, the Langobards, to conquer much of the peninsula.


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The exarchate of Ravenna, which remained in Byzantine possession, was concentrated around Ravenna.


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[6] Rise of the Catholic Church The Church and especially the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, has played an important political role since Constantine, who sought to annex the institution to imperial rule.


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In the precarious situation following the breakup of Western Rome, the Church was often the only stable institution and the only source of doctrine.


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Even the barbarians depended on the church to govern their lands of conquest.


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In addition, Catholic monastic organizations such as the Benedictines played a large role both in the economic life of the time and as preservers of classical culture.


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After the entry of the Langobards, the popes were nominally subordinate to the Eastern Emperor, but received little support from Constantinople and began to build an independent state to protect Rome from langobard attacks.


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In the late 7th century, the popes pursued independence and found a way to do so by allying themselves with the Frankish Carolingid dynasty: the Carolings needed legitimacy to seize power from the Merovings, while the Popes needed military support against the Langobards.


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In 751, the Langobards took over Ravenna, and the Byzantine presence in central Italy came to an end (some coastal towns and territories in southern Italy remained in Byzantium until the 10th century).


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The Popes turned to the Franks, who in 756 defeated the Langobards and ceded to the Pope power over central Italy, thus establishing the Church State.


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However, the rest of Italy was held by the Langobards or Byzantium.


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Holy Roman Empire In 774, after a papal invitation, the Franks defeated the Langobards and took the crown of their kingdom.


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Their leader Charles the Great was crowned by the pope on 25 December 800 in Rome as emperor.


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This caused a dispute between the Frankish Empire and Byzantium over the right to the name of Rome.


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In 812, Byzantium agreed to recognize the Roman Empire in exchange for guaranteeing its Italian holdings.


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However, the emperor's power did not properly reach the southern parts of the peninsula, whose two langobard dukes of Spoleto and Benevento accepted Charlemagne's rule in name only.


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Conquering Benevento would have meant full encirclement of Papal territories in the emperor's territories, and Charles the Great probably thought it was not good for relations.


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Greco-Latin coastal cities such as Naples on the Tyrrhenian Sea and Venice on the Adriatic became increasingly independent of Byzantium.


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Charles the Great had the papal efforts to expand power stymied, and his time meant balancing in Italy, although marked by non-Italian interests.


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The gap between Eastern and Western Christendom continued to grow.


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Saint Leo III was the first pope to date his bulla in accordance with the reign of Charles the Great rather than the Byzantine emperors.


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By the beginning of the 8th century, the process that began three centuries earlier, in which Italy seceded from Byzantium and connected to Western Europe, had become broadly completed.


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Sicily, Calabria, Apulia and some maritime cities were the main exceptions.


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After the death of Charlemagne (814), under weak successors, the Empire quickly fell apart.


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The equilibrium created by the emperor's charisma was shattered.


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The crisis was exacerbated by external factors such as Saracen invasions and the intensification of maritime republics.


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Charles the Great's son Louis the Pious died in 840.


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The Treaty of Verdun divided the Empire in 843.


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Louis's eldest surviving son Lothar I became emperor and ruler of the central part of the kingdom.


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His three sons accordingly divided this kingdom between themselves, and northern Italy became the Kingdom of Italy under Louis II in 839.


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Muslim Arabs conquered Sicily in 827, ruled until 1053.


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In 846, the Arabs invaded Rome and plundered St. Peter's Basilica, taking all the gold and silver from there.


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As a result, Leo IV began the construction of the Vatican Wall, which was completed in 853.


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In 951, the Italian and German crowns were merged.


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The ruler of the new kingdom, Otto I the Great, submitted that the Union would restore the kingdom of Charles the Great and received the title of emperor in 962.


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In these times of turmoil, the prestige of the papacy institution had also diminished (see pornocracy, for example).


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The end of the Middle Ages Barbarian invasions and the Gothic Wars eradicated much of Italy's urban culture.


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It did not completely disappear, but was much more modest than in the Roman period.


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Wars, disappearances and disease had also plummeted Italy's population.


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In the 7th—8th centuries, some cities such as Amalfi and Venice began to flourish through trade (silk, salt), but urban life remained scarce.


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The 10th century marked the end of the darkest period of the Middle Ages.


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Trade slowly began to recover, especially through the sea, and the four port cities, Amalfi, Pisa, Genoa and Venice became powermakers.


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[7] Many landlocked cities, such as Florence and Milan, also grew and effectively became independent city-states from central power, expanding their territory at the expense of feudal lords to the countryside.


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In the 12th century, Italian cities that were part of the Empire rebelled successfully against the centralisation effort of the regime of Frederick I Barbarossa.


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The pope regained his authority and began a long struggle against the Empire on both ecclesiastical and secular issues, the first act of which was an investment-strife.


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At the same time, the southern parts of Italy and Sicily were conquered by the Normans.


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The Normans eventually conquered Byzantine and Arab-controlled territories.


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Byzantium, however, had not been defeated yet, instead invading in 1155 Italy under Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.


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By 1158, the Byzantine army had been forced to withdraw from Italy.


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The Renaissance Italian Renaissance, or rinascimento, ushered in the Renaissance, especially in Europe of a new era in culture and arts, which continued from the end of the 14th century until about 1600.


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The Renaissance began in Tuscany, the cities of Florence and Siena, and its high point was towards the end of the 15th century.


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It spread south, affecting Rome in particular, which was largely rebuilt by Renaissance popes.


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The Italian Renaissance began to decline at the end of the 15th century with the invasion of foreign powers, after which the focus of the Renaissance shifted to Central Europe.


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Roots In the Heart Middle Ages, the city-states of the northern part of Italy were among the most prosperous in Europe, considerably more prosperous than the southern part of Italy, including Rome.


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The Crusades had established permanent trade ties with the Levant, and Byzantium, a trading rival of the Italian cities, had been badly damaged by the Fourth Crusade.


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Luxury goods such as spices, dyes and silk were brought to the ports of Genoa, Pisa and Venice in Italy and exported from there to other parts of Europe.


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Inland towns, on the other hand, benefited from good farmland, such as the Po River Valley.


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In turn, wool, wheat and precious metals were imported via land and river routes from France, Germany and the Netherlands.


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Trade stretching from Egypt to the Baltics created surpluses that could be invested in mining, farming and early industry.


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Northern Italy was not richer than the rest of Europe in terms of resources, but the high rate of processing built on the bottom of commerce enabled it to succeed.


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Florence, for example, initially emerged as one of the most prosperous cities in northern Italy largely through the production of fabrics.


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Wool was imported from Northern Europe and Spain, and with dyes imported from the East, it was made into quality clothes.


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In the 13th century, Italian city-states grew strongly and became virtually independent from the Empire.


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During this period, banking and monetary methods also developed, the center of which Florence became its center, and its currency, the florin, the currency of international trade.


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A new aristocrat class emerged, which had gained ground through their business skills and challenged the feudal upper class that ruled Europe in the Middle Ages.


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In most of northern Italy, urban grand burghers were more formidable than rural feudal lords.


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The economic crash of the 14th century and the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th century saw a series of disasters that collapsed the European economy.


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These included the beginning of the Little Ice Age, which depressed agricultural production as well as the Hundred Years' War between France and England, which stirred the economy: for example, two of Florence's largest banks, Bardi and Peruzzi, fell after Edward III of England left his debts of 1.5 million florins unserviced in in 1345.


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[8] In the east, the formation of the Ottoman Empire cut off trade routes.


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The most devastating was the Black Death, which killed tens of percent of Europe's population.


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The population of Florence, for example, collapsed from 90000,0000 to 50000 and caused turmoil including, for example, the Textile Workers' Revolt of 1378.


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Some accidents of the 14th century contributed to the Renaissance.


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Ottoman expansion at the expense of Byzantium caused an influx of refugees from the east, and they brought with them classical Greek civilisation.


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The Black Death wiped out a third of Europe's population, leaving the new smaller population soon more prosperous than previously thought.


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The population had more property for luxury goods, but fewer of their producers, improving the position of the lower classes.


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The horrors of the Black Death and the Church's inability to prevent them also undermined the Church's influence, which was one of the prerequisites for the Renaissance.


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During this period, the first Renaissance figures such as Dante and Francesco Petrarca lived, and the first signs of the Renaissance were visible in the early 14th century.


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The fall of the Bard and Peruzzi banks opened the way for the rise of the Medici family in Florence.


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Robert Sabatino Lopez has even suggested that financial collapse was a necessary cause of the renaissance, as in economically favorable times businessmen invest their money quickly, while in bad times fewer investment items can be found, causing them to spend their funds on culture and to art.


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[9] Wars Especially the early part of the Renaissance was an almost continuous war between city-states, fought by mercenaries brought from all over Europe.


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Cities warred against each other, and on the other hand, the pope struggled for power with the emperor.


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More powerful city-states often subjugated their weaker ones and annexed them to themselves, such as Florence of Pisa 1406 and Venice of Padua and Verona.


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The cities depended entirely on mercenaries who, in the worst case scenario, might turn on their master and take power in the city.


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Fleets were equipped for wars at sea.


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Venice became the superior sea master after it dispossessed the Genoese fleet in 1380.


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On land, the main wars were fought between Florence and Milan; these wars have been seen as important in the emergence of the Renaissance.


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[10] The Medici family, which owned the largest bank in Europe, became Lord of Florence in the 1430s, with Cosimo de' Medici as its first leader.


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Florence was formally preserved as a republic, but the instruments of power were firmly in the hands of the Medici and their allies.


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Cosimo de' Medici was very popular among the townspeople due to the peace and heyday of the era.


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His most notable achievements included making peace with the Sforza family of Milan, bringing an end to decades of war.


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Cosimo was also a supporter of the arts, though some have regarded his reputation in this regard as exaggerated.


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In 1469, Cosimo's grandson Lorenzo de' Medici, who was the first member of the family to receive humanistic education in his early years and the most important of the family's supporters of the arts, came to power.


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Under Lorenzo, Medici power was consolidated with the creation of the Council of Seventy, which Lorenzo presided over.


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The republican institutions survived, but lost their influence.


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In business, Lorenzo was not as successful as his predecessors, and the Medici financial empire slowly began to decline.


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Lorenzo's relations with the pope deteriorated, leading to the attempted assassination of Lorenzo orchestrated by the Pope with the Pazzi House.


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It failed, but led to a war with the Pope by which centralized power of the Medici was later justified.


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[11] The spread of the Renaissance Renaissance ideals spread from Florence first to the Tuscan neighboring cities of Siena and Lucca.


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Tuscan culture soon became an object of imitation for all of northern Italy, with the Tuscan dialect of Italian dominant especially in the literature of the region.


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In 1447, Francesco Sforza rose to power in Milan and quickly transformed the medieval city into an arts and civilisation centre.


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Venice, one of the most prosperous cities, also became a cultural center, especially in architecture.


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In 1378, the pope returned to Rome, but the former mighty city remained mostly poor and ruined through the early years of the Renaissance.


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Nicholas V, who became pope in 1447, initiated a major rebuilding.


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With the papacy falling into the hands of northern power families such as the Medici and the Borgias, the renaissance world and art became dominant in the Vatican.


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Pope Sixtus IV continued the work of Nicholas, most famously his project the construction of the Sistine Chapel.


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Popes increasingly became secular administrators, and under the “warrior popes”, the power of the Church State was centralised.


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The character of the Renaissance changed in the late 15th century.


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Renaissance ideals were then fully embraced in the ruling class and aristocracy.


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Early Renaissance artists were considered craftsmen with few reputations and recognitions.


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Later Renaissance artists were influential and billed large commissions.


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The end of the Italian Renaissance Many view the Renaissance as the symbolic endpoint of Girolamo Savonarola's rise to power in Florence in 1497.


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In the short reign of the unjeweled monk, many works of art were destroyed “on the pyres of vanities”.


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Savonarola's power ran short and the Medici lineage returned to power, but similar moral resistance movements continued within the church, and in the middle of the 16th century Renaissance works were banned in connection with the Counter-Reformation.


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At least as important a factor in the waning of the Italian Renaissance as the Church resistance movement, was a series of attacks on Italy by foreign powers, the Italian Wars that dragged on for decades.


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They began with the 1494 French invasion, which caused widespread destruction in northern Italy and ended the independence of many city-states.


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The most devastating blow was on 6 May 1527, when Spanish and German troops ravaged Rome, thus ending the pope's role as the greatest supporter of the Renaissance.


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Due to chaos and contacts with foreign rulers, many of Italy's greatest artists decided to leave the country, the most famous example of Leonardo da Vinci who emigrated to France in 1516.


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The shift of focus to the north represented a broader trend.


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The Mediterranean was no longer the main trade route; Vasco da Gama had reached India in 1498, and the main trade routes from the Orient went to Atlantic ports in Iberia, France and England.


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These territories soon overtook Italy in prosperity and power.


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As the Italian Renaissance waned, however, many of its influences moved north and contributed to the Northern Renaissance.


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The Renaissance did not mean sweeping social and economic changes, but mostly touched only a small percentage of people.


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Admittedly, in northern Italian cities, the class of skilled craftsmen was in a much better position than in Europe in general, but the status of unskilled laborers was no longer much affected by the Renaissance.


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Foreign power and unification in the Italian Wars involved all the major Western European countries from 1494 to 1559: France, Spain, the Holy German-Roman Empire, England, Scotland, the Republic of Venice, the Church State, and most Italian city-states.


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Originally beginning with disputes over the succession in Naples, the wars soon formed into complex power struggles, with varied allied relations, involving the Reformation.


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The Pope's influence diminished due to military defeats and the Reformation, and he allied himself with Charles V for the Counter-Reformation.


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By the end of the wars, the Habsburgs” Spain had become the ruler of Italy and a European powerhouse state at the expense of France.


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The Italian states, which had been powerful in the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods, became second-class factors or were completely destroyed.


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[12] Reunification Main article: Risorgimento At the end of the 18th century, the political situation in Italy was pretty much the same as in the 16th century, distinguished by the fact that Austria had become the dominant external power instead of Spain and the fact that the Dukes of Savoy also ruled the Northwest Piedmont, had become Sardinian rulers.


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This situation was shaken by the 1796 invasion of Italy by Napoleon.


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States created by Napoleon, such as the Cisalpine Republic, were merely satellites of France, but fueled the nationalist movement.


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The Cisalpine Republic was transformed into the Italian Republic in 1802, with Napoleon as its president.


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The Congress of Vienna (1814) restored matters close to the situation of 1795.


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The northeastern parts of Italy, including the Venice region and also Lombardy, fell to Austria, and the rest of Italy was divided into six states, namely the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Kingdom of Sicily, the Church State, Tuscany, Parma and Modena.


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The Kingdom of both Sicilies encompassed the whole of southern Italy, and the Kingdom of Sardinia included not only the island of Sardinia but also territories on the mainland of northern Italy.


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The states wanted to maintain the status quo and opposed the nationalist, liberal and republican movements.


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In the 1820s some rebellions arose, but were suppressed by the interventions of the Austrian army.


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In the 1830s, there was a revolt which spread to the Church State and raised a popular force against the reactionary pope Gregory XVI.


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Austria put down the rebellion, but came under pressure from France to reduce its presence in Italy and withdraw its troops from the Church State.


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In the 1840s, the unification act, the risorgimento, began to take on more importance through, among others, Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.


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Sardinian monarchs, such as Carlo Alberto and especially Viktor Emanuel II, also began to warm to the idea of unification.


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The increased movement led to extensive rebellions practically throughout Italy in the European madness of 1848.


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In connection with the revolts, Carlo Alberto of Sardinia declared a war against Austria, which has been referred to as the First War of Independence.


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Austria defeated the Sardinians and Carlo Alberto renounced the crown in favour of Viktor Emanuel II.


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Rebellions were also defeated in Tuscany, Milan and Naples.


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In Rome, the situation escalated in 1849 so that Pope Pius IX was forced to flee the city, and a republic was proclaimed there.


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Roman defences were organized by Giuseppe Garibaldi.


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Eventually France and Austria occupied Rome, where the revolts ended.


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The events of 1848—1849 strained the situation in Italy: Pius IX cancelled his liberal reforms, and Austria took control firmly in Lombardy, Venice, and virtually Tuscany.


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The Kingdom of Sardinia, which ruled Piedmont, remained somewhat independent and presided over the unification of Italy.


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The Crimean War weakened Austria's international standing.


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Sardinian Prime Minister Camillo Cavour and French Emperor Napoleon III met in the summer of 1858 and agreed to war against Austria — the treaty was preceded by an attempted assassination of Napoleon III by an Italian nationalist fanatic.


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Sardinia did not achieve its objectives in the short Second War of Independence, but through skilful diplomacy, in 1860, Cavour was able to agree the accession of Tuscany and Emilia to Sardinia, after which Sardinia controlled much of northern and central Italy.


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Italy now had four states: Piedmont Sardinia, the Kingdom of Both Sicily, the Church State, and Austrian-ruled Venice.


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Giuseppe Garibaldi In May 1860, freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi, who had resigned from the Sardinian army, invaded Sicily with a small force of volunteers and conquered Palermo after beating, with British support, the many times larger armies of the Kingdom of Both Sicily.


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The episode showed the weakness of the Kingdom of Sicily and made Garibaldi a national hero.


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In six weeks, Garibaldi took Messina and thereafter moved on to Italy, whose takeover of the southern parts went as fast as Sicily.


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After winning Calabria and Naples, Garibaldi advanced towards Rome, but the ripples of forces in the Kingdom of Sicily at both slowed his advance.


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Sardinia decided to keep the situation under its control and conquered the Church State with the exception of its core part, mainly the city of Rome.


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Garibaldi ceded southern Italy to King Viktor Emanuel II of Sardinia.


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Cavour confirmed the annexations by referendum, and the elected First National Parliament met on 18 February 1861 and proclaimed Viktor Emanuel King of Italy.


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The Italian capital at first became Turin, but it was changed to Florence in 1865.


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Venice and Rome, which Garibaldi unsuccessfully still tried to take in 1862 and 1867, had remained outside the Kingdom of Italy.


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Venice joined Italy in 1866 in connection with the so-called Third War of Independence, but Pope Pius IX wanted nothing to do with the new state.


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However, the Papal position was dependent on the French garrison, and when withdrawn in the context of the Franco-Prussian War, it marched the Italian army to Rome on 20 September 1870.


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Rome was annexed by referendum to Italy and became the capital.


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The pope barricaded himself in the Vatican and declared himself a “prisoner of the Vatican.”


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Kingdom Until 1922, Italy was a constitutional monarchy with a parliament.


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The constitution was largely inherited from the Constitution of the Kingdom of Sardinia of 1848 established by Carlo Alberto.


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The king had, in principle, extensive powers, which, however, he did not often exercise.


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The most notable change was universal male suffrage in 1912.


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King Umberto I was assassinated on 29 July 1900.


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He was succeeded by Viktor Emanuel III.


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[13] In the Italian—Turkish War of 1911—1912, Italy conquered Libya.


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[14] World War I Italy declared itself neutral at the start of World War I, claiming that the trialliance with Germany and Austria was only defensive and did not apply to the Austro-Hungarian war.


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Both coalitions tried to win Italy over, and in April 1915 the country joined the Circum-Powers, declaring war on Austria-Hungary.


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The aim was to have territorial extensions such as Trento, Trieste, Istria and Dalmatia at Austria's expense.


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The fighting bogged down in the Austrian-Italian border region into a war of positions that claimed great losses.


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In October 1917, the Austrians, with the help of German troops, broke through the Italians' lines, but with the support of the Circum-Powers, the Italian managed to halt the attack near Venice.


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Fascist regime After the end of World War I, Italy gained most of the territories it wanted except Dalmatia, which was given to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.


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However, the war had claimed the lives of nearly 700,000 Italian soldiers, and the internal state of the country was chaotic.


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Workers staged strikes demanding rights and better working conditions.


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Some took over factories and production facilities following the model of the Russian Revolution.


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The Fascist Party, led by Benito Mussolini, emerged from the Black Shirts organisation that broke the strikes.


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In October 1922, the Fascists marched on Rome.


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The king forbade the army from meddling, allied himself with Mussolini and allowing him to form a fascist-led government.


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In the following years, Mussolini, who was known as “Il Ducena”, or leader, banned other political parties and curtailed civil liberties.


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In 1929, Mussolini signed the so-called lateran treaties with the Catholic Church, which led to the formation of a teeny Vatican City State under the papacy, ending the schism with the Pope that had been going on since 1870.


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Mussolini was initially on quite good terms with Britain and France, but with Italy's conquest of Ethiopia in 1935—1936, relations with Western countries cooled.


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Because of this, as well as ideological similarities, Italy was oriented towards Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and formed a Berlin—Rome axis with Germany.


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After Germany annexed Czechoslovakia without notifying Italy of the plan, Italy considered itself a lesser member of the Axis, and Mussolini decided to annex Albania to Italy.


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Albania was occupied on 7 April 1939, its king became King Viktor Emanuel III of Italy and a Fascist government was formed there.


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The Italian-German alliance was strengthened by the Steel Treaty on 22 May 1939.


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World War II Mussolini dreamed of a Greater Italy encompassing the Mediterranean, but Italy remained neutral when World War II broke out.


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Italy declared war on France and Great Britain on 10 June 1940 with France's defeat looking certain.


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After the German occupation of Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France, Mussolini decided to occupy Greece by using Albania as a support area.


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This failed badly, for not only did the Greeks repel the attack, they pushed the front deep into Albania.


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Fearing that the Balkans would become the Achilles heel of its European rule, Germany occupied Greece and Yugoslavia.


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With the failure of the Soviet conquest (1941—1942) and the entry of the United States into the war (December 1941), the situation for the Axis powers deteriorated.


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In March 1943, British and US forces were definitively defeated by the Italians and Germans in North Africa and came ashore in Sicily.


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King Viktor Emanuel III sacked and arrested Mussolini and appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio as prime minister.


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The new government officially resumed the war, but initiated secret peace talks.


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Hitler did not trust Badoglio but sent troops to Italy.


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On 8 September 1943, Badoglio's government concluded an armistice with the Allies, but did not declare war on Germany.


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Badoglio and the king family relocated to Allied controlled territory.


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In the confusion that followed, most of the Italian army disintegrated and Germany took control of central and northern Italy.


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The Germans freed Mussolini with a commando strike and installed him as puppet ruler of the Italian Social Republic established in the north.


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As the Allies slowly forced the Germans towards the north, the official government finally declared war on Germany.


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At the same time, the anti-fascist popular movement grew stronger and caused problems for the Germans.


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Eventually, in April 1945, the Allies had pushed the Germans out of Italy.


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Italy's war success in World War II was something, with individual exceptions, weak.


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The Fascists had thus utterly failed in the task they considered most important, turning Italy into a military power.


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Republic After World War II, Italy was forced to abandon its African territories as well as Fiume and Istria, but freed itself from war reparations and received Marshall aid.


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Elections were held in 1946 to elect a new Constituent Parliament.


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Women had the right to vote in this election for the first time.


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In conjunction with the election, a vote was taken to preserve the monarchy and the republican option won.


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King Umberto II resigned after only a month in power.


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The parliamentary election was won by Italy's Christian Democratic Party (DC), which ruled Italy for nearly the next four decades.


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The position of the Communist Party (PCI) was also quite strong in the post-war years.


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The new constitution had to be prepared for almost two years and eventually, apart from the king, it became quite similar to the one that preceded the Fascist rule.


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Italy became a republic with its president essentially having nominal power.


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Italy is a founding member of both NATO and the European Community.


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[15] Post-war Italy was faced with poverty and agrarian domination, but in the 1950s and 1960s the northern part was heavily industrialised, which has even been spoken of as an economic miracle for Italy, but the development of the south of the country was slower.


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[16] Under the Lateran Contracts renewed in 1948, Italian marital law was regulated by the Catholic Church.


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In the 1970s, the church's power in this regard was breached and divorce, as well as abortion, were legalized.


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History of Italy

The 1970s were marked by student riots and terrorism from both the far right and -left.


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Of the many far-left organisations, the best known was the Red Brigades, whose most famous act is the 1978 capture and assassination of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro.


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History of Italy

The single most serious act of terrorism was the 1980 bombing of Bologna railway station by a far-right organisation in which 84 people were killed.


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History of Italy

The extensive Tangentopol kickback scandal of the early 1990s dissolved the DC Party and revolutionised the political map to such an extent that the period since has been talked of as a “second republic.”


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History of Italy

With a broad campaign, the Italian government sought to quash corruption (the “clean hands” campaign), as well as the Mafia, whose members were arrested with the help of whistleblowers over 200 and assets were seized worth about $1 billion in 1992.


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History of Italy

[17] In the March 1994 general election, the overwhelming winner was the Alliance for Freedom (Polo della Libertá), formed as an electoral alliance, formed by Forward Italy (Forza Italia, FI), founded by media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, the National Conservative National League (Alleanza Nazionale, AN) and Northern Alliance (Lega Nord, LN) called for autonomy for Northern Italy.


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Berlusconi formed a right-wing coalition government in which the aforementioned parties participated.


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History of Italy

The government was already toppled in December 1994 over bribery suspicions against Berlusconi.


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History of Italy

In 1996, with Romano Prodi's centre-left coalition coming to power, Prodi's government lasted until the rest of 1998.


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In the 2001 elections, the “House of Freedoms” (Casa delle Libertà) coalition led by Berlusconi survived the winner, and Berlusconi was allowed to form his second government.


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Forza Italia gained from the country's upper house of parliament, the Senate (Senato della Repubblica), 82 seats out of 315 and the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati), 189 seats out of 630.


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The main opposition force in the early 2000s was the centre-left “Olive Tree” (Uniti Nell'ulivo) coalition, whose largest party is the Social Democratic “Democrats of the Left” (Democratici di Sinistra).


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History of Italy

The bribery trial against Berlusconi was halted in June 2003 when parliament voted on a new law guaranteeing legal immunity to politicians and judges.


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History of Italy

Berlusconi's reign continued into the April 2006 elections, narrowly won by Romano Prodi's coalition.


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Prodi's first government, made up of a dozen parties, lasted nine months before falling to a vote to keep the country's troops in Afghanistan.


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History of Italy

However, Prodi was allowed to form a new government.


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The centre-left's new party grouping has been the Democratic Party since, [18] and its ranks emerged in early 2014 as Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.


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Question: What is the largest city in Indiana?

Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state.


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Indiana

It joined the United States as the 19th state in 1816.


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Indiana

To the north, the state borders Lake Michigan and Michigan State, to the east by Ohio, to the south by Kentucky (as the border river, the Ohio River), and to the west by Illinois.


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Indiana

The nearly long Wabash River splits the state in two in a northeast-lunch direction.


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Indiana

Indiana's capital is Indianapolis.


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Other major cities include Fort Wayne, Evansville, and South Bend.


Question: What is the largest city in Indiana?

Indiana

[1] Geography Location and landforms To the north, the state borders Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan, to the east by Ohio, to the south by Kentucky (as the border river, the Ohio River), and to the west by Illinois.


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[2] There are three types of terrain in Indiana.


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Indiana

The northernmost are the Great Lakes Plains, where ice ages have piled moraine and shaped small lakes.


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Indiana

To the south of them is the Till Plateau, part of a fertile area known as the Maize Belt.


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Indiana

The southernmost part was never under a continental glacier, and so there are the steepest hills.


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Indiana

Notable rivers include the Ohio, Kankakee, Tippecanoe, Wabash, and White River.


Question: What is the largest city in Indiana?

Indiana

[2] Climate The impact of open water from Lake Michigan on snowfall produces about a five-part of Indiana's precipitation.


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Indiana

One of the worst snowstorms of all time was experienced in 1978 when about half a foot of snow fell in the south of the state and more than a metre in the north in some places.


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Indiana

[3] The hottest month of the year is July, when the average highest temperature in Indianapolis is around.


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Indiana

The average lowest is on the frost side from December to February, with −6.1 in the coldest January.


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Indiana

[4] From 1950 to 2005, the average per year has extended all the way to land in the Indiana area.


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Indiana

Throughout that episode, eight tornadoes were detected, falling within the strongest category F5 on the Fujita scale.


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Indiana

[3] Nature in the early 19th century almost all of Indiana was covered in deciduous forest.


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Indiana

A grassland plateau from the Great Plains stretched into the northwestern corner of the state.


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Indiana

With farming, urbanization and industrialization, ever-forests have receded.


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Indiana

Many tree species grow in existing, largely cultivated forests, characterized by a bright autumn color.


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Indiana

The white-tailed deer population has increased thanks to conservation.


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Indiana

Other mammal species include possums, skunks, raccoons, hares, land voles, and bats.


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Indiana

Many waterfowl such as swans, ducks and sand cucumbers live in the wetlands.


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Indiana

Many species of fish, including endangered lake moss, are found in water bodies.


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Indiana

[5] Largest Cities In 2012, Indiana had four cities with over a hundred thousand inhabitants: Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville, and South Bend.


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Indiana

[6] History The area of present-day Indiana was known as the Paleoinians as far back as thousands of years ago.


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Indiana

[7] Because of its location, Indiana has been a key area for moving from east to west and north to south.


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Indiana

French fur trappers passed through it on their journey from Canada to Louisiana.


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Indiana

It was taken by the British in 1763.


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Indiana

[8] Settlers were constantly migrating to the area from the east as farmland shortages began to come in the east.


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Indiana

Many also seek the freedom to practice their preferred religion.


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Indiana

[7] Present-day Indiana was part of the Northwest Territory, from which it was detached in 1800 to become the Indiana Territory.


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Indiana

In 1816, the southern portion of the territory joined the United States as the state of Indiana.


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Indiana

[9] The National Road extended as far as Indiana in 1829 and established a connection to the eastern parts of the United States.


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Indiana

[10] 1832, construction began on the Wabash-Erie Canal connecting the Ohio River to the Great Lakes.


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Indiana

Preparation of these transportation links annexed Indiana more closely to the East Coast, even if natural water routes would have taken the Gulf of Mexico.


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Indiana

Between 1780 and 1840, a series of decisions and treaties were made to expel Indians from the state almost entirely by 1840.


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Indiana

[11] In the Civil War, Indiana sided with the Union.


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Over joined the Union Army and the population of Indians was the second largest of the Northern States.


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In addition to these joined the local forces.


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Indiana

[12] The discovery of natural gas in the 1880s led to rapid economic growth.


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Indiana

[13] At least one hundred people perished in the floods of 1913.


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[14] Demand caused by World War I spurred industrialization.


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Indiana

Important products of Indiana's industry at that time included steel, iron, automobiles, and train cars.


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Indiana

[15] The Ku Klux Klan was on strength.


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Indiana

During the Great Depression, Indiana's first income tax was introduced.


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Indiana

The governor declared martial laws in place to stop strikes.


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Indiana

Also during World War II, Indiana's industry participated in garrisoning.


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Indiana

The oil crisis of the 1970s affected the automotive industry.


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Indiana

In 2008, there were again bad floods.


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Indiana

Loss of life were avoided, but economic losses amounted to about $1 billion.


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Indiana

[16] Administration of Indiana's legislative power is exercised by the bicameral state parliament.


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Indiana

The upper house, or senate, has 50 members; the lower house, or assembly of representatives, has one hundred members.


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Indiana

Members of the lower house are elected for two years, senators for four years at a time.


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Indiana

[17] The supreme executive power exercised by the Governor.


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Indiana

Since 2017, the Governor has been Eric Holcomb, whose predecessor Mike Pence became Vice President of the United States.


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Indiana

The state is divided.


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Indiana

[18] Indiana has the death penalty in place.


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Indiana

There was a switch from the electric chair to lethal injections in 1995.


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Indiana

[19] The economy of Indiana's gross domestic product in 2010 was $276 billion.


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Indiana

It was 16 of the states in the United States.


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Indiana

on the farm.


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Indiana

[20] In Indiana, coal is produced, bringing in two-thirds of the proceeds of the mining industry.


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Indiana

Other extractives include sand, gravel and crushed stone.


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Indiana

Livestock farming produces pigs above all, but also milk, cattle and eggs.


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Indiana

Of the arable crops, corn and soybeans are the most important.


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Indiana

[21] In 2013, there were five hospitals and three universities among Indiana's ten largest employers.


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Indiana

The largest was Indiana University Central Hospital in Bloomington, with 30,000 employees.


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Indiana

[22] In Indiana, income taxation has been implemented as a flat tax and had the lowest tax rate in 2013 of the seven states using a flat tax, at 3.4%.


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Indiana

[23] The sales tax is seven per cent and applies to other articles except food and medicines.


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Indiana

[24] Coal produced in its own state covers approximately half of the consumption.


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Indiana

In addition to coal, natural gas is imported from other states; the gas reserves that triggered 19th century economic growth have already been exhausted.


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Indiana

[5] It is planned to increase the share of renewable energy sources from 4% in 2013-2018 to 10% by 2015.


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Indiana

[25] Traffic in Indiana is in all.


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Indiana

[26] The largest of them is Indianapolis International.


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Indiana

[27] Indiana also has six ports — three on the shores of Lake Michigan in the northern part of the state, three along the Ohio River along the state's southern border.


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Indiana

[28] Population The state's population in 2014 was.


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Indiana

According to census data from 2000, about of Indiana residents are Caucasians, there are just over eight blacks, and Hispanos.


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Indiana

[29] Protestants are in the population, Catholics 18, other denominations three and non-religious 26.


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Indiana

[30] Famous Indianans include Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, James Dean, Adam Lambert.


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Indiana

Dozens of universities and colleges operate in Indiana.


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Indiana

According to the 2014 4icu rating, the best of them were [31] Purdue University Indiana University of Notre Dame University of Indiana and Purdue University in Indianapolis Culture and Sports Indiana State's titular flower is a peony and emblem bird red cardinal.


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[32] Indianapolis is home to the Indiana Museum of Art and the Indiana Symphony Orchestra.


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Indiana

There are also symphony orchestras in South Bend and Fort Wayne.


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Indiana

Brown County is known for bluegrass music and hosts an annual bluegrass party founded by Bill Monroe.


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Indiana

Cole Porter and many other well-known songwriters hail from Indiana, as well as writer Kurt Vonnegut.


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Indiana

[5] The Indianapolis 500 motorsports event has been held annually in Indiana since 1911.


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Indiana

[33] The Evansville Icemen and Fort Wayne Komets play hockey in the ECHL league.


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Indiana

The Indianapolis Colts are an American football NFL team.


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Indiana

Playing in Indianapolis are the NBA team Indiana Pacers and the women's NBA's Indiana Fever.


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Indiana

The Pacers were the most successful club in the ABA League when the series merged with the NBA in 1976.


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Question: How do you define socialist Yugoslavia?

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.


Question: How do you define socialist Yugoslavia?

Eastern Europe

Especially during the Cold War, the term was used to refer to countries whose system was socialist at the time.


Question: How do you define socialist Yugoslavia?

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe included East Germany, the European parts of Russia, the Baltic states, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Bulgaria, Albania and the countries of the former Yugoslavia.


Question: How do you define socialist Yugoslavia?

Eastern Europe

The United Nations Eastern Europe Group of the United Nations defines the following states as Eastern European countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Belarus, Russia and Estonia [1].


Question: How do you define socialist Yugoslavia?

Eastern Europe

Geography By area, most of Eastern Europe is located away from the seas, due to which Eastern Europe predominates a mainly continental climate.


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Eastern Europe

Typical of the continental climate is the large temperature difference between winter and summer.


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Eastern Europe

At its maximum, the difference can be between 40 and 60°C.


Question: How do you define socialist Yugoslavia?

Eastern Europe

Of Eastern Europe, most of it is lowland.


Question: How do you define socialist Yugoslavia?

Eastern Europe

In the region, only the Carpathians and the Balkan Mountains have higher highlands.


Question: How do you define socialist Yugoslavia?

Eastern Europe

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Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718-1790) was a German biologist.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

He studied plants, fungi, insects and birds.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

Schäffer studied theology at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg from 1736 to 1738.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

He was the first to study water crayfish (Daphnia) and tried to understand the significance of their anatomical features.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

[1] In 1759, Schäffer published a manual on plants and their use as pots.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

From 1762 to 1764, he published four richly illustrated books on fungi.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

He also published figurative works on birds and insects, and made suggestions for their classification.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

[2] Schäffer received the rank of Doctor of Philosophy in 1760.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

He amassed his own natural history collection, and put it on public display.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

He was in correspondence with Linné and Réaumur.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

The determiner abbreviation Schaeff to be used after the scientific name of fungi or plants stands for Schäffer.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

Activities in the field of technology Natural science was not the only subject of interest to Schäffer.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

He conducted experiments with electricity, color and optics.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

He is preserved as a well-known maker of prisms and lenses.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

He invented an early washing machine whose design he published in 1767: Die bequeme und höchstvortheilhafte Waschmaschine.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

[3] His other inventions included, among others, a saw and a furnace.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

The paper industry also interested him from 1765 until 1771, which phase observations and results of experiments were published under the title: Versuche und Muster, ohne alle Lumpen oder doch put einem geringen Zusatze derselben, Papier zu machen.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

[4] It specifically describes the manufacture of paper from a variety of plants such as aspen, leaf moss and hops, which might not have been used by papier-mâché manufacturers without Schäffer's experimental work.


Question: What does the FRS acronym stand for?

Jacob Christian Schäffer

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Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

It joined the United States as the 19th state in 1816.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

To the north, the state borders Lake Michigan and Michigan State, to the east by Ohio, to the south by Kentucky (as the border river, the Ohio River), and to the west by Illinois.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The nearly long Wabash River splits the state in two in a northeast-lunch direction.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Indiana's capital is Indianapolis.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Other major cities include Fort Wayne, Evansville, and South Bend.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[1] Geography Location and landforms To the north, the state borders Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan, to the east by Ohio, to the south by Kentucky (as the border river, the Ohio River), and to the west by Illinois.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[2] There are three types of terrain in Indiana.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The northernmost are the Great Lakes Plains, where ice ages have piled moraine and shaped small lakes.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

To the south of them is the Till Plateau, part of a fertile area known as the Maize Belt.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The southernmost part was never under a continental glacier, and so there are the steepest hills.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Notable rivers include the Ohio, Kankakee, Tippecanoe, Wabash, and White River.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[2] Climate The impact of open water from Lake Michigan on snowfall produces about a five-part of Indiana's precipitation.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

One of the worst snowstorms of all time was experienced in 1978 when about half a foot of snow fell in the south of the state and more than a metre in the north in some places.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[3] The hottest month of the year is July, when the average highest temperature in Indianapolis is around.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The average lowest is on the frost side from December to February, with −6.1 in the coldest January.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[4] From 1950 to 2005, the average per year has extended all the way to land in the Indiana area.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Throughout that episode, eight tornadoes were detected, falling within the strongest category F5 on the Fujita scale.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[3] Nature in the early 19th century almost all of Indiana was covered in deciduous forest.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

A grassland plateau from the Great Plains stretched into the northwestern corner of the state.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

With farming, urbanization and industrialization, ever-forests have receded.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Many tree species grow in existing, largely cultivated forests, characterized by a bright autumn color.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The white-tailed deer population has increased thanks to conservation.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Other mammal species include possums, skunks, raccoons, hares, land voles, and bats.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Many waterfowl such as swans, ducks and sand cucumbers live in the wetlands.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Many species of fish, including endangered lake moss, are found in water bodies.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[5] Largest Cities In 2012, Indiana had four cities with over a hundred thousand inhabitants: Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville, and South Bend.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[6] History The area of present-day Indiana was known as the Paleoinians as far back as thousands of years ago.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[7] Because of its location, Indiana has been a key area for moving from east to west and north to south.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

French fur trappers passed through it on their journey from Canada to Louisiana.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

It was taken by the British in 1763.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[8] Settlers were constantly migrating to the area from the east as farmland shortages began to come in the east.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Many also seek the freedom to practice their preferred religion.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[7] Present-day Indiana was part of the Northwest Territory, from which it was detached in 1800 to become the Indiana Territory.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

In 1816, the southern portion of the territory joined the United States as the state of Indiana.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[9] The National Road extended as far as Indiana in 1829 and established a connection to the eastern parts of the United States.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[10] 1832, construction began on the Wabash-Erie Canal connecting the Ohio River to the Great Lakes.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Preparation of these transportation links annexed Indiana more closely to the East Coast, even if natural water routes would have taken the Gulf of Mexico.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Between 1780 and 1840, a series of decisions and treaties were made to expel Indians from the state almost entirely by 1840.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[11] In the Civil War, Indiana sided with the Union.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Over joined the Union Army and the population of Indians was the second largest of the Northern States.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

In addition to these joined the local forces.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[12] The discovery of natural gas in the 1880s led to rapid economic growth.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[13] At least one hundred people perished in the floods of 1913.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[14] Demand caused by World War I spurred industrialization.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Important products of Indiana's industry at that time included steel, iron, automobiles, and train cars.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[15] The Ku Klux Klan was on strength.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

During the Great Depression, Indiana's first income tax was introduced.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The governor declared martial laws in place to stop strikes.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Also during World War II, Indiana's industry participated in garrisoning.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The oil crisis of the 1970s affected the automotive industry.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

In 2008, there were again bad floods.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Loss of life were avoided, but economic losses amounted to about $1 billion.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[16] Administration of Indiana's legislative power is exercised by the bicameral state parliament.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The upper house, or senate, has 50 members; the lower house, or assembly of representatives, has one hundred members.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Members of the lower house are elected for two years, senators for four years at a time.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[17] The supreme executive power exercised by the Governor.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Since 2017, the Governor has been Eric Holcomb, whose predecessor Mike Pence became Vice President of the United States.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The state is divided.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[18] Indiana has the death penalty in place.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

There was a switch from the electric chair to lethal injections in 1995.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[19] The economy of Indiana's gross domestic product in 2010 was $276 billion.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

It was 16 of the states in the United States.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

on the farm.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[20] In Indiana, coal is produced, bringing in two-thirds of the proceeds of the mining industry.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Other extractives include sand, gravel and crushed stone.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Livestock farming produces pigs above all, but also milk, cattle and eggs.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Of the arable crops, corn and soybeans are the most important.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[21] In 2013, there were five hospitals and three universities among Indiana's ten largest employers.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The largest was Indiana University Central Hospital in Bloomington, with 30,000 employees.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[22] In Indiana, income taxation has been implemented as a flat tax and had the lowest tax rate in 2013 of the seven states using a flat tax, at 3.4%.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[23] The sales tax is seven per cent and applies to other articles except food and medicines.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[24] Coal produced in its own state covers approximately half of the consumption.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

In addition to coal, natural gas is imported from other states; the gas reserves that triggered 19th century economic growth have already been exhausted.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[5] It is planned to increase the share of renewable energy sources from 4% in 2013-2018 to 10% by 2015.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[25] Traffic in Indiana is in all.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[26] The largest of them is Indianapolis International.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[27] Indiana also has six ports — three on the shores of Lake Michigan in the northern part of the state, three along the Ohio River along the state's southern border.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[28] Population The state's population in 2014 was.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

According to census data from 2000, about of Indiana residents are Caucasians, there are just over eight blacks, and Hispanos.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[29] Protestants are in the population, Catholics 18, other denominations three and non-religious 26.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[30] Famous Indianans include Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, James Dean, Adam Lambert.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Dozens of universities and colleges operate in Indiana.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

According to the 2014 4icu rating, the best of them were [31] Purdue University Indiana University of Notre Dame University of Indiana and Purdue University in Indianapolis Culture and Sports Indiana State's titular flower is a peony and emblem bird red cardinal.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[32] Indianapolis is home to the Indiana Museum of Art and the Indiana Symphony Orchestra.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

There are also symphony orchestras in South Bend and Fort Wayne.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Brown County is known for bluegrass music and hosts an annual bluegrass party founded by Bill Monroe.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Cole Porter and many other well-known songwriters hail from Indiana, as well as writer Kurt Vonnegut.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[5] The Indianapolis 500 motorsports event has been held annually in Indiana since 1911.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

[33] The Evansville Icemen and Fort Wayne Komets play hockey in the ECHL league.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The Indianapolis Colts are an American football NFL team.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

Playing in Indianapolis are the NBA team Indiana Pacers and the women's NBA's Indiana Fever.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

The Pacers were the most successful club in the ABA League when the series merged with the NBA in 1976.


Question: What is Indiana's acreage?

Indiana

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Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

Epic Games (formerly Epic MegaGames) is an American game house.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

The company has started out as a video game developer, but has since its inception expanded to license its Unreal Engine game engine to game developers.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

History Epic Games' history dates back to 1991, when Tim Sweeney founded a gaming company called Potomac Computer Systems in Rockville, Maryland, United States.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

The firm's first major game was ZZT.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

Gradually, the firm began to be known as Epic MegaGames.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

To the knowledge of the general public, Epic MegaGames gained access in the mid-1990s, when shareware experienced an actual boom as the way games were distributed.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

Epic's well-known SW games include e.g.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

Epic Pinball, Jill of the Jungle, Jazz Jackrabbit and One Must Fall: 2097.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

Around this time, Epic also began distributing games designed by others.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

In 1998, Epic released Unreal, which received several sequels.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

Epic also began selling under license the Unreal Engine game engine they created to other game makers.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

In 1999, Epic MegaGames became Epic Games.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

In 2006, Epic released Gears of War for the Xbox 360.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

In 2007, a sequel to the Unreal Tournament series, Unreal Tournament 3, was released for PC and PlayStation 3, a version for the Xbox 360 was released slightly later.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

In 2008, Gears of War's sequel, Gears of War 2, appeared.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

Today, Epic Games continues the development of the Gears of War series and the Unreal Engine game engine they created.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

In 2016, an Early Access version of Epic's upcoming free-to-play MOBA type game called Paragon was released, which was being developed for PC and Playstation 4.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

In the spring of 2018, Epic Games stopped developing Paragon, shutting down its servers on April 26, 2018 [1].


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

As a reason, Epic Games reported Paragon's low player count, partly caused by Fortnite's growing popularity.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

In 2011, Epic Games began developing a game called Fortnite.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

This game was meant to be a grim survival game at the time.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

Later, the game became much more colourful and more suitable for children.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

However, Fortnite was not successful until on September 26, 2017, Epic Games released a free Battle Royale game format for it.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

In the first couple of months it was not yet known, but in the spring of 2018, the game began to receive a lot of attention, which led to most of the gaming channels on YouTube And Twitch switching to playing Fortnite.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

The game is available for PC through the Epic Games launcher and also for consoles such as PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.


Question: What year has Id Software's game Doom been released?

Epic Games

An iOS version already exists, and a Beta version of the Android release also became available on August 9, 2018.


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Epic Games

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Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer (o.b. Morgan, born December 24, 1973, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American novelist.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

She is known for the four-part romantic fantasy series Temptation ().


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The first volume of the book series, The Decoy published in 2005, was Meyer's pre-production work.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Meyer's Lure series books have sold over 42 million copies worldwide, [1] [2] and the series has been translated into 37 languages.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[3] In 2005, Meyer was selected by Publishers Weekly magazine as one of the year's most promising new writers.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[4] According to USA Today, the four volumes of Lure were the best-selling books of 2008 in the United States, [5] and Meyer's publisher estimates his books sold 22 million copies that year.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Meyer is the first author to have captured the top four spots on USA Today's list with his works.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[6] In addition to the Decoy series, Meyer has also written the science fiction novel Guest (2008) for adults.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

In 2009, Meyer reached number 26 on a list of the world's most influential public figures compiled by financial magazine Forbes [7].


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Life Stephenie Meyer's parents were Stephen and Candy Morgan.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Meyer has five siblings: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The unusual spelling of his first name, he received based on the name of his father Stephen.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[8] When Meyer was four years old, his family moved from Connecticut to Phoenix, the Arizona state capital.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

He attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale and went on to study at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he majored in English.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[9] Meyer graduated from the university in 1995.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

In 1994, Meyer married Christian “Pancho” Meyer.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The couple have three sons: Gabe, Seth and Eli.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[8] Meyer is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

For example, because of his faith, he does not drink alcohol or smoke tobacco.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[10] In his youth, Meyer dreamed of a career as a writer and studied English at university, but nevertheless considered becoming a lawyer because he did not believe he could succeed as a writer.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

After giving birth to her first child, Gabe, she abandoned the idea of a career in law and remained a stay-at-home mother.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[10] Decoy series Meyer's Decoy series was released between 2005 and 2008.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The book series tells the story of a young girl named Bella Swan who falls in love with a vampire boy named Edward Cullen.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

According to what he told, Meyer got the idea for a series of books about his dream where a girl and a vampire boy discussed their relationship and how the vampire boy had to fight back against his desire to drink the girl's blood.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[11] The next day, in June 2003, Meyer began writing her first-born novel The Lure, based on her dream.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[11] Meyer entered into a $750,000 contract to publish Lure with the US publishing company Little, Brown and Company [12].


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The agreement also covered the release of the other three volumes.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Lure was released in 2005 and was very successful.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

It was, among others, a selection by the New York Times and Publishers Weekly as the best book of the year in 2005.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[13] Meyer continued the book series for three more volumes.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The lure was followed by Uusikuu in 2006 (Finland 2007), Doubt in 2007 (Finland 2008) and Aamunkoi in 2008 (Finland 2009).


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The book series was translated into Finnish between 2005 and 2009 as published by WSOY.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Meyer was due to write Midnight Sun, a re-telling piece of the first part of the series from Edward's perspective, but after its drafts leaked onto the internet he stopped writing it.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Sketches of Midnight Sun can be viewed on Meyer's homepage.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[14] Meyer has also written a piece with additional information about the Decoy series titled The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide, whose release date has not been announced.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[15] For this collection with additional information, Meyer also made a miniature novel The Short Life of Bree Tanner.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Influences Meyer has said that each part of the Decoy series is inspired by a particular literary classic work and that the books are loosely based on this way.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The first part of The Lure was inspired by Jane Austen's work Pride and Prejudice and the New Moon is loosely based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Doubt was inspired by Emily Brontë's Wuthering Grayling.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The final part of Dawn is partly based on Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[16] Meyer has said that he was inspired by music when writing and has posted lists of inspired songs on his website [8].


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Frequent ensembles appearing on the charts include Muse, Blue October, My Chemical Romance, Coldplay and Linkin Park.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[17] [18] [19] [20] Films Three films have also been made based on the book series: Twilight — Lure (2008), Twilight — New Moon (2009) and Twilight — Doubt (2010).


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Based on the fourth work, a two-part film Twilight — Dawn will be made, with the first part scheduled to premiere on 18 November 2011 and the second part in the summer of 16 November 2012.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[21] Meyer made a cameo role in the film Twilight — Lure.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[22] In all films, the lead roles are played by Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Other works In 2008, Meyer's science fiction novel for adults was published (The Host, Finland 2009).


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Meyer has been writing a sequel to it, The Soul.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[23] Meyer has also written the short story “Hell on Earth” for the compilation work Prom Nights from Hell published in 2007.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[24] [25] Admirers With their great popularity, Meyer and Lure are often said to have created a “Twilight phenomenon” around them, which has been compared to J. K. Rowling and his Harry Potter book series [26].


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Lure's admirers have, among other things, written their own stories, namely fan fiction, on the internet and set up lure themed ensembles.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

Meyer's public appearances have drawn multi-thousand-headed audiences.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[27] According to US Weekly, US President Barack Obama has been reading the Decoy book series along with his elder daughter Malia.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[28] The events of the Decoy books are set in the small town of Forks in the US state of Washington.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

The town has received a lot of attention, and as a tribute to the writer, it celebrates Stephenie Meyer Day on the birthday of the Bella Swan character 13.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

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Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

[29] The popularity of the series has increased tourism to the city, and townspeople began, for example, selling products related to the series, as well as organising decoy themed tours in Forks and surrounding areas.


Question: What was Stephenie Meyer's first book?

Stephenie Meyer

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