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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...th, and [[Belize]] and [[Guatemala]] to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country i...
66: ...th century]], and their defeat of the Mexica in [[1521]], marked the beginning of the 300 year-long colo...
76:
161: ...retches more than 3000 km from northwest to southeast. Its width is varied, from more than 2000 km in t...
163: ..., open to the north, with mountain chains on the east and west and with ocean-front lowlands lying outs... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
30: ... several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other pla... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
4: When she was 24 her husband ɴienne du Castel died, and Pizan became a court writer employed ...
9: ...les V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴienne du Castel, who became Charles's notary and secretary. Aft...
13: ...f France]] (1396), took her elder son, [[Jean du Castel]] (b. 1384), and reared him as his own; the boy...
19: ...'Livre de la paix'' (1412-1413), but after the disasters of the [[battle of Agincourt|campaign of Aginc...
25: ...s dames'' was translated by Brian Anslay (London, 1521). - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...story|Europe]], the [[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and North Africa. It includes the major art mov...
15: ...iconoclasm]] halted the production of art in the East. During this period Christian artists adopted the...
27: ...most of which have not survived due to natural disasters and the re-appropriation of churches to [[mosq...
29: ...ed such as [[Manueline Gothic]] in Portugal (1495-1521), [[Perpendicular Gothic]] in England (1332), [[D... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...an he joined the war to conquer [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] state on the [[Iberian peninsul...
4: ...w World. He helped conquer the [[Taino]]s of the eastern part of Hispaniola, and was rewarded with the ...
9: ...d in the ''Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]].
12: ... Spanish for ''Flowery Passover'', meaning the [[Easter season]]. ''Pascua Florida Day'', April 2, is a...
14: ...ed around the [[Florida Keys]], and up the west coast of Florida to [[Cape Romano]]. He sailed back sou... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
289: *[[Piero di Cosimo]] ([[1462]]-[[1521]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
17: *[[1521]]-Cortes destroys the Aztec empire
18: ...a Verrazano]], working for [[France]], explores coastline from present-day [[North Carolina]] to [[Main... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ... Pratensis) (c. [[1450]] – [[August 27]], [[1521]]) was a [[Dutch School (music)|Franco-Flemish]] ...
8: ...ive voices, widely acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces.
10: ...archers. He remained at Cond頵ntil his death in 1521.
14: ...ble to get along with his colleagues." His fame lasted long after his death; [[Gioseffo Zarlino|Zarlin...
16: ...y, but his reputation has grown steadily for the last hundred years, and Josquin's music is often sung ... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair o...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
43: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[26 April]]</small>
50: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[23 November]]</small>
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 October]]</small> - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: '''Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[...
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5: <tr><td>'''Baldassare Castiglione'''</td></tr>
8: ...nzaga]], a relative of Luigia Gonzaga, mother of Castiglione.
13: ... Fregoso]], [[Cesare Gonzaga]] (a cousin of both Castiglione and the duke), and many others. Notably, g... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
7: ... rest of his life he continued to observe many monastic practices, including self-punishment in the for...
12: ...], More was knighted and made undertreasurer in [[1521]]. As secretary and personal advisor to King Hen...
14: ...1525]] he became chancellor of the [[Duchy of Lancaster]], a position that entailed administrative and ...
19: ...is friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his masterpiece, ''[[In Praise of Folly]]'', to him. (Ind...
23: ...he authors' allegiance to the reigning [[Tudor dynasty]], which had wrested the throne from Richard at ... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
60: ...i da Lucca,'' [[1520]] (''The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca'')
61: *''Istorie fiorentine,'' 8 books, [[1521]]-[[1525]] (''[[Florentine Histories]]'') - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
11: * ''[[Exsurge Domine]]'', [[Diet of Worms]] ([[1521]]), [[Peasants' War]]
20: ...the breakdown of monastic institutions and [[scholasticism]] in late medieval Europe, accentuated by th...
28: ...[philosophy|philosophical]] foundations of [[scholasticism]], the new [[nominalism]] did not bode well ...
30: ...orm movements that revolted against medieval scholasticism and the institutions that underpinned it wer...
42: ...nism for centuries: the neo-Platonism of the scholastics and the neo-Aristotelianism of Thomas Aquinas ... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...he [[Persian Gulf]] ([[Southwest Asia]]/[[Middle East]], [[Asia]]). [[Saudi Arabia]] is to the west and...
65: A strategic position between East and West, fertile lands, fresh water, and pearl d...
67: ...is was Iqlim Al-Bahrain (Province of Bahrain). In 1521, the Portuguese separated Awal (now Bahrain) from...
109: ...low central escarpment, in the [[Persian Gulf]], east of [[Saudi Arabia]]. The highest point is the 12...
111: ...ary with another country but does have a 161 km coastline and claims a further 12 [[Nautical mile|nm]] ... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...ellan''' (Spring [[1480]] – [[April 27]], [[1521]]; was a [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[List of sea ex...
7: ...ation, becoming interested in [[geography]] and [[astronomy]]. Some speculate that he may even have bee...
11: ...aptain]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was f...
24: Ruy Faleiro, an [[astronomer]] and Portuguese [[exile]], aided him in h...
26: ...ia de Triana, giving money to the monks of the monastery so they would pray for his success. - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ... of [[Extremadura]], in the [[Castile|Kingdom of Castile]] in Spain in [[1485]], the only child of Mart...
10: ...g the indigenous [[Guanches]]) but would prove devastating in the New World.
12: ...n, "in the true interests of the realm." At the last minute, the Governor, sensing that Cortés was to...
15: ...as early as the sixteenth century doubt has been cast on the historicity of these Conquest accounts. It...
18: ... if she was not, as conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo wrote in his account "The True History of the... - Sweden (27111 bytes)
1: ...[Baltic Sea]] and the [[Gulf of Bothnia]] on the east. Sweden has a low population density in all but i...
63: ...sh; [[4000 BC]]), following the recession of the last [[ice age]] – the [[Weichsel glaciation]]. ...
69: ... and [[10th century]], the Swedes primarily went east, to [[Balticum]], [[Russia]] and the [[Black Sea]...
76: ...v I of Sweden]] (Vasa) ultimately broke free in [[1521]] and established a nation state, considered the ...
79: ...[Grand Duchy of Finland]] was created out of the eastern half of Sweden. - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
17: ...n [[August 13]], [[1521]], after a struggle that lasted months in which much of the city was destroyed.... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ...theology|theologian]] and an [[Augustinian]] [[monasticism|monk]] whose teachings inspired the [[Protes...
19: ...Eisleben]], [[Germany]] and was baptized on the feast day of [[Martin of Tours|St. Martin of Tours]], a...
21: ...t received a Bachelor's degree in [[1502]] and a Master's degree in [[1505]]. According to his father's...
23: ..., Luther left his law school and entered the [[monastery]] there.
26: ...God escaped him. He devoted himself to [[fasting|fasts]], [[flagellation]]s, long hours in [[prayer]] a... - 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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