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- Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
3: ...jou]], King of [[Naples]] and [[Sicily]] and [[Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine]]. She married King Henr...
12: ... of Westminster]], was born, on [[October 13]], [[1453]], he had suffered a complete mental breakdown. ...
14: ...red, Margaret, managed to escape, and immediately began raising an army in Wales and the north of Engl...
16: ...rl of Salisbury were destroyed. Margaret had both beheaded, and ordered the placing of their heads on ...
18: ... that Warwick return to England to prove himself, before she followed. He did so, restoring Henry VI ... - 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... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...ting in 1517. These various changes all mark the beginning of the [[Early Modern]] period that preced...
6: ...types associated with the phrase, but also partly because more recent research into the period has in ...
8: ...This break-down was often fast and dramatic as it became unsafe to travel or carry goods over any dist...
12: ... of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction between the culture of the newcomers, the remnants o...
14: ...and counts. The rise of urban communes marked the beginning of the High Middle Ages. - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
9: ...l art can be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian a...
15: ...Christian art'' covers the period from about 200 (before which no distinct Christian form survives), u...
17: ... [[Anglo-Saxon]]s creating what is called the [[Hiberno-Saxon]] style, and then finally late in the pe...
19: ...nderung|Migration period]] from about 300-900 (to be completed).
21: ''Pre-Romanesque art'' (to be completed) - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...ands|Dutch]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]] has also been credited with this invention.
4: ...ns and used words sparsely. As a new block had to be carved for each page, printing different [[book]]...
6: ... of the technique is not as apparent as with alphabetic based languages. Movable type did spur, howeve...
8: ...later invention of the press. The claim that Gutenberg introduced or invented the printing press in Eu...
12: ...his period, between the first work of Johann Gutenberg and the year 1500, are collectively referred to... - Greece (54754 bytes)
50: ...astern [[Mediterranean]] basin, feature a vast number of islands.
52: ...of the [[European Union]] since [[1981]] and a member of the [[Eurozone]] since [[2001]].
57: ...ɛˈlas/}}<!--Please note: IPA accent is written *before* the accented syllable, not after the accente...
65: ...ociated with the sea. After the internal struggle between Spartans and Athenians, all parts of Greece ...
68: ... culture would in turn conquer Roman life. Greece became a province of the [[Roman Empire]], but Greek... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
13: ...le|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
79: *[[Robert Yerkes|Yerkes, Robert]] (1876-1956), psychologist
88: *[[Yi Sun-sin]], ([[1545]] - [[November 19]], [[1598]]), Korean admiral
108: *[[Yoannis XI of Alexandria]], ([[1428]]-[[1453]]), Coptic Pope
176: *[[Robert Young (actor)|Young, Robert]], (1907-1998), American actor - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey]] ([[1852]]-[[1911]])
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
15: | [[527]] || Justinian I becomes emperor.
41: | Constantinople is liberated by the Byzantine emperor of [[Nicaea]], Mich...
43: | [[1453]]
46: ...ntium'') is the term conventionally used to describe the [[Greek language|Greek]]-speaking [[Roman Emp...
51: ...ced by the rift caused by the 9th century dispute between Romans (Byzantines as we render them today) ... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ... Historians lump these conflicts under the same label for convenience. The war was primarily fought in...
5: The war was significant because of new weapons and tactics that ended the ag...
8: The background to the conflict can be found 400 years earlier when Frankish [[Carolingi...
10: ...ndy; it was a very rich land and England stood to become very wealthy by retaking it. The war was both...
13: ...lip III of Navarre|Philip, count of Evreux]], who became [[List of Navarrese monarchs|king consort Phi... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...s, the pre-Augustan state is conventionally described as the [[Roman Republic]], since the structure o...
5: ...ther millennium, in [[1453]], the Eastern Empire, better known as the [[Byzantine Empire]], fell to th...
7: ... for such a long period of time [[31 BC]] – 1453, there are certain alternative names used by hist...
9: ...elf) the realities of dictatorship were concealed behind Republican forms; while during the Dominate (...
17: ...royed over the preceding [[century]] and Rome had been effectively under one-man rule since the time o... - Russia (28007 bytes)
4: ...t States]], since the union's dissolution in December [[1991]]. In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was cal...
13: ...candinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[Muromian]]s and th...
15: ...ury|11th centuries]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperou...
17: ...ussians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Ukrainians]] in the west.
23: ...territories. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less functional ... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ... "Jewish" teaching is valid, led to an early rift between Christianity and the temple priesthood, and ...
10: ...the flesh as [[Jesus]] (the [[Incarnation]]), and became the deliverer of both Israel and of all manki...
12: ...gious [[calendar]] in which certain events and/or beliefs are specifically commemorated on certain day...
26: ...ad grown from the personal practice of a small number (Acts 1:15 says about 120) of [[Jews]] and [[Pro...
29: ...] but should be taught to follow what would later be called the [[Noahide Laws]] subset of the [[Law o... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
35: | [[October 29]] [[1923]]
45: ...kish Empire'' or ''Turkey'', though it should not be confused with the modern [[nation-state]] of that...
47: ...x130;stanbul]]) from the [[Byzantine Empire]], it became the Ottoman capital. Following [[World War I]...
53: ...ture of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]], the state became a mighty [[empire]] with [[Mehmed II]] as its...
58: ...ms, and actually lost a large territory which had been in Ottoman possession for two centuries. - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
8: ...f emperor [[Justinian I]] and rededicated on December 26, [[536]].
10: ... within the first year. The construction is described in [[Procopius]]' ''On Buildings'' (De Aedificii...
20: ...pendentives to four massive piers at the corners. Between them the dome seems to float upon four great...
24: The structure has been severely damaged several times by [[earthquakes...
32: ...aster. (While figurative representation has never been completely banned in Islamic art, figures of hu... - Konya (2390 bytes)
9: ...aramanid fell to the [[Ottoman Empire]] and, in [[1453]], Konya was made the provincial capital of the O...
13: ... high consumption of [[raki]] (both of these have become something of 'urban legends' in Turkey and ha... - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
1: ...ntury]] until the fall of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]]. (The Roman Empire during this period is conven...
3: ... under the rule of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after [[1453]]. In some respects the Byzantine artistic tradit...
7: ...l heritage, but was distinguished from it in a number of ways. The most profound of these was that the...
9: ...tion from its beginnings, and the female nude had been similarly elevated from the [[4th century BC]] ...
11: ...rtyrs]] of Christian tradition were elevated, and became the dominant - indeed almost exclusive - focu... - Byzantine coinage (4605 bytes)
4: ...sented according to the [[Greek numerals|Greek numbering system]] (M=40,K=20,I=10,E=5). Silver coins w...
6: ...inted in varying fineness with a weight generally between 7.5 and 8.5 grams. The Miliaresion was minte...
8: ... it began to be debased under successive emperors beginning in the [[1030s]] under the emperor [[Roman...
12: ...ne coinage became insignificant, as Italian money became the predominant circulating coinage.
14: ...ificantly smaller, became the only bronze coin to be regularly issued. Although [[Justinian II]] ([[68... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...'s [[Turkey]]. Today, Constantinople is the area between the [[Golden Horn]] and the [[Sea of Marmara...
3: ...largest city both culturally and economically. [[Bezants]], the only gold coin minted in Europe until...
5: ... pursing the richer provinces to the east in Asia beyond Constantinople, allowing the east to develop ...
9: ...y fell to the [[Ottoman Empire]] on [[May 29]], [[1453]], during the reign of Constantine Paleologos (&#...
24: ...uments of Byzantine Constantinople, compiled by Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Ch... - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
2: ... in [[1517]]. These various changes all mark the beginning of the [[Early Modern]] period that preced...
8: ...types associated with the phrase, but also partly because more recent research into the period has in ...
10: ...This break-down was often fast and dramatic as it became unsafe to travel or carry goods over any dist...
14: ... of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction between the culture of the newcomers, the remnants o...
16: ...and counts. The rise of urban communes marked the beginning of the High Middle Ages.
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