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a start on a section describing the history of the English language
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Martin Luther founded Protestantism in Europe on October 31, 1517, when he nailed 95 “Theses” or issues to the door of his Wittenberg Church in what is now Germany.  A decade later, in 1529, King Henry VIII founded a different Protestant religion for an entirely different reason:  he wanted the pope to approve his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and when the pope refused, the king founded the Church of England and seized all property of the Catholic Church in England.  Other protestant faiths also began in the 1500s, and the Catholic Church responded with an internal reformation of its own.
 
Martin Luther founded Protestantism in Europe on October 31, 1517, when he nailed 95 “Theses” or issues to the door of his Wittenberg Church in what is now Germany.  A decade later, in 1529, King Henry VIII founded a different Protestant religion for an entirely different reason:  he wanted the pope to approve his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and when the pope refused, the king founded the Church of England and seized all property of the Catholic Church in England.  Other protestant faiths also began in the 1500s, and the Catholic Church responded with an internal reformation of its own.
 
We end this Lecture with a discussion of Asia in the Middle Ages, which was unaffected by both the Renaissance and the Reformation.  Asia had issues of its own.
 
We end this Lecture with a discussion of Asia in the Middle Ages, which was unaffected by both the Renaissance and the Reformation.  Asia had issues of its own.
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But before we discuss the Renaissance the the weighty issues of the Reformation, this is the perfect time to pause for a moment and review the origin and development of the English language.  English is a relatively young language lacking in any origin in the ancient world.  It does not come from Sanskrit or Hebrew or Greek or Latin.  Recall that the Roman empire could never conquer the region of present-day Germany, and English is a Germanic Language within the Indo-European category of languages.  Let's learn about its history.
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== The History of the English Language ==
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The development of the English language is divided into three periods":  Old English (also called "Anglo-Saxon"), Middle English, and Modern English (which we speak today).  Germanic tribes settled in England as long ago as about the time when the Roman empire fell, around A.D. 450.  Old English developed and was used until shortly after the Norman conquest of 1066, when Latin began to cause improvements in Old English and it upgraded to medieval Middle English. 
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Here is an example of Old English:
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Here is an example of Middle English:
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A good dictionary will provide a date of origin of a word, and the oldest dates are "13c" or A.D. 1200.  For example, the date of first use of the word "chase", meaning "the hunting of wild animals," is listed by Merriam-Webster dictionary as "13c".  More modern words, such as "homeschooling", have more recent dates, such as 1980 the case of "homeschooling".
    
==Renaissance==
 
==Renaissance==
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