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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...]]. The Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in the [[14th century]] in [[Italy]] and the [...
10: ...by the [[Reformation]], which many believe to not be accurate. The entire period is now often replaced...
12: Other periods of cultural rebirth have also been termed a "renaissance"; such as the [[Harlem Re...
19: ...ace of the Renaissance is almost universally ascribed to Northern Italy, especially the city of [[Flor...
21: ...since have been a period of social rot which he labeled the ''[[Dark Ages]]''. Petrarch saw history as... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ... first the [[Carrack]] and then [[caravel]] in [[Iberia]]. These that were a combination of traditiona...
7: ...rds. These were almost all Italians as the trade between Europe and the Middle East was almost comple...
11: ... and trade. The land route to the East was always be too long and difficult for profitable trade and i...
13: ==Exploration begins in Portugal==
15: ... crucial to their survival. At the same time the Iberians learnt much from their Arab neighbours. The ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...located on the west and southwest parts of the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in southwestern [[Europe]], and i...
5: ...reek language|Greek]] and [[Latin]] name meaning "Beautiful Port". During the [[15th century|15th]] an...
15: ...ived north of the Douro river among some other tribes. {{Inote | ''Hist󲩡 de Portugal - A Forma磯 d...
17: ...and ransacked [[Conistorgis]], the Conii capital, because of their alliance with Rome. [[Viriathus]], ...
23: ...vaded the Iberian peninsula, set up kingdoms, and became assimilated. The [[Vandals]] ([[Silingi]] and... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
3: ...ato di Niccolo Betto Bardi''') ([[1386]] - [[December 13]], [[1466]])
7: ... The two masters, each in his own sphere, were to become two of the leading spirits of the Early Renai...
10: ...Donatello's gradual maturation is visible. It can be followed from a [[Gothic]] stiffness of attitude ...
14: ...eir angularities and deviations from the lines of beauty.
16: ...to a relief which may have been designed, or even begun, by Jacopo, the font is of considerable import... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: ...umb|250px|''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]'', painted 1434]]
5: ...mily of painters and was a younger brother of [[Hubert van Eyck]].
7: ...lours from [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]. Later on, Hubert admitted him into partnership, and both were ma...
9: ...Jan became his own master, left the workshop of Hubert, and took an engagement as painter to [[John of...
11: ...ways in the saddle, he appears for a time to have been in ceaseless motion, receiving extra pay for se... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737...
17: ...veterans. The seat of a bishopric from around the beginning of the 4th century A.D., the city experien...
19: ...chi]] and [[Corso Donati]]. (See [[Guelphs and Ghibellines]].) These struggles eventually led to the ...
21: ... anti-aristocratic movement, led by [[Giano della Bella]], that resulted in a set of laws called the [...
23: ...amily member to essentially control the city from behind the scenes, his power coming from a vast [[pa... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
1: ...vigator''', ([[March 4]], [[1394]] – [[November 13]], [[1460]]), a prince of [[Portugal]], looms...
3: ... fell into Portuguese hands]], however, and Henry became fascinated with tapping into that wealth, as ...
5: ... the remainder of his life, and as time passed he became more and more devoted to Christianity. For th...
7: ...s well as the sole right to authorize expeditions beyond [[Cape Bojador]] (in present-day [[Western Sa...
9: ...ortugal|Lagos]] provided a convenient harbor, and became a center for ship-building. The development o... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], searching for the mouth...
8: ...ew York]] becomes the site of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken)...
10: ...erican Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Bentonville]] begins. By the end of the battle two days later the ...
15: ...s]] for the second time (first time was on [[November 19]], [[1919]]).
19: ...War II]]: Off the coast of [[Japan]], a [[dive bomber]] hits the [[aircraft carrier]] [[USS Franklin (... - Rome (33048 bytes)
36: ...[[Latium]] region. It is located on the lower [[Tiber]] [[river]], near the [[Mediterranean Sea]], at ...
42: ...ends nearly 2,800 years, during which time it has been the seat of the [[ancient Rome]] (the [[Roman K...
49: ...contains an island where the river can be forded. Because of the river and the ford, Rome was at a cro...
52: ... west), [[Sabine]]s (in the upper valley of the Tiber), [[Umbrian]]s (in the north-east), [[Samnites]]...
54: ... well as in the eastern two-thirds of [[Sicily]], between [[750 BC| 750]] and [[550 BC]].
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