Western History The Monarch: The attitudes of governments toward churches vary. Sometimes a particular church is recognized as a special institution with special privileges ; at other times governments pursue a studied policy of rigid religious neutrality.
Established or state churches enjoy legal privileges which are not accorded other religious groups. For long periods in Western history the monarch of a particular realm recognized one church as a national institution and gave it special endowments and immunities.
Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The gold- and silverwork of the non-Western world not only has an illustrious history, but in many cases it also surpassed in sumptuousness as well as design the efforts of early European goldsmiths, and it greatly influenced later Western artists.
Pyrrhus effected his co-sovereign's death in 295 and then embarked on the conquest of neighboring Macedonia, whose western districts and several dependent territories he conquered by 294. His second wife brought the Ionian islands of Corcyra (Corfu) and Leucadia (Leukas) to him as her dowry. In 291 Pyrrhus again warred with Macedonia and by 286 won from his former friend Demetrius, then king, about one half of Macedonia and all of Thessaly. But Lysimachus, the next Macedonian monarch, recovered these areas in 283.
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