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- Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...[[Belgium]] to the south, and [[Germany]] to the east. In many countries, the Netherlands is often refe...
70: ...n did they become official colonies (the [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] was a collection of private e...
72: ...ighboring countries, mainly due to its unique infrastructure of waterways and reliance on windpower. Af...
81: ...meant "(Language) of the (common) people" in contrast with the medieval elite who spoke Latin. An old t...
101: *[[Groningen Province|Groningen]] - in the northeast; capital: [[Groningen (city)|Groningen]] - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ... vast [[navy]] and [[army]] was built, with four masted ships displacing 1,500 tons and a standing army...
6: ...ps and Zhu declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in [[1368]], establishing his capital at [[Nanji...
8: ...ss, the other being [[Han Gaozu]] of the [[Han Dynasty]]; [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Deng Xiaoping]] are the ...
10: ...l a threat. As an aside, the name Hongwu means "Vast Military" and reflects the increased prestige of ...
12: ...xpropriated with the establishment of the Ming dynasty. Great [[landed estate]]s were confiscated by t... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
7: ...r this tuition Jan learnt to draw and paint, and mastered the properties of colours from [[Pliny the El...
9: ...ince's household in [[1421]], Jan became his own master, left the workshop of Hubert, and took an engag...
17: ... at the moment when he started as an independent master, but that time and accidents of omission and co...
21: ...inued the work with almost as much vigour as his master. His own experience had been increased by trave...
28: ...den]], equally soft and minute, charms us by the mastery with which an architectural background is put ... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
13: ... next taking the throne (the oldest continuous dynasty in medieval European history). In 1314, the Cape...
15: ...]], his daughters were put aside in favor of the last brother, [[Charles IV of France|Charles IV]], wit...
17: ...for England, and only [[Bordeaux]] and a narrow coastal strip now remained in English possession. The r...
19: ...er yet to be born. The senior line of Capetian dynasty had ended in [[tail male]], creating a crisis on...
21: ... descendant of the senior line of the Capetian dynasty through [[Philip IV of France|Philip IV]] (Phili... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
45: ...[[Anatolia]] and ruled by the [[Osmanlı]] dynasty. In diplomatic circles it was often referred to ...
53: ...-century history with both the [[Eastern culture|East]] and the [[Western Culture|West]].
65: ...rt to keep power in their hands by regaining at least some of the lost territories, the triumvirate led...
83: ...220;The beginnings of legal reform in the Middle East were initiated in the ottoman empire in the middl... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...he hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christi...
7: The monastic hospitaller order was founded following the [[F...
15: ... well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
17: ...Auvergne]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Aragon]], [[Castile]], [[Germany]] and [[England]]). The English p...
19: ..., and the walls of the city. The resulting siege lasted six months, at the end of which the survivors w...
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