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- Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
12: ...ental breakdown. Rumours were rife that he was incapable of fathering a child and that the new [[Prin...
14: ...]. With the king captured, Margaret, managed to escape, and immediately began raising an army in Wales...
16: ...es of [[Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick]], and recaptured her husband.
18: ...was now seeking revenge for the loss of his political influence. Warwick's daughter, [[Anne Neville]]... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...ul ways: A rebirth of [[classical education|classical learning and knowledge]] through the rediscovery...
10: ...', etc. This terminology is particularly useful because it eliminates the need for fitting "The Renais...
17: ...urch of [[Florence]], [[Italy]]. Florence was the capital of the Renaissance]]
21: ...ethod of learning. These new ideas from the past (called the "new learning" at the time) triggered the...
23: ...oint in warfare as [[cannon]] and [[gunpowder]] became a central element. In addition, Byzantine-Greek... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...f European history]] into three 'ages': the Classical civilization of [[Antiquity]], the Middle Ages, ...
6: ...prising artistic sophistication, though its political and social senses were unevolved and its technol...
8: ... this connection too was lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanishe...
12: ...changes, and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared.
14: ...ple such as the [[Vikings]] were still capable of causing major disruption to the newly emerging socie... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...[[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and North Africa. It includes the major art movements, national ar...
9: ...ry of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian and "Barbarian" art.
13: ...aditionally look at it based on about nine large-scale movements, or periods.
15: ...sts adopted the Roman crafts of painting, mosaic, carving and metalwork.
17: ...ontact with the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s creating what is called the [[Hiberno-Saxon]] style, and then finally... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: The '''printing press''' is a mechanical device for [[printing]] many copies of a [[text]...
4: ...and used words sparsely. As a new block had to be carved for each page, printing different [[book]]s w...
8: ...press in Europe is not accepted by all. The other candidate advanced is the [[The Netherlands|Dutchman...
12: ...s wrote them out by hand. Books were therefore a scarce resource. While it might take someone a year t...
14: ...r encountered in much of the Islamic world, where calligraphic traditions were extremely important, an... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...lly influential in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[Africa]].
13: ...er colspan=2 style="background:#fff;" | [[image:LocationGreece.png]]
17: | '''[[Capital]]''' || [[Athens]]
23: ...nisters of Greece|Prime Minister]]''' || [[Costas Caramanlis|Ks Karamanl�]
31: ...duct|GDP]]'''<br> - Total<br> - GDP per capita - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
39: ...hyn|Yascheshyn, Kerri]], ([[1985]] - [[2003]]), [[cancer]] patient
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]
108: *[[Yoannis XI of Alexandria]], ([[1428]]-[[1453]]), Coptic Pope
146: *[[Andrew Young|Young, Andrew]], (b. 1932), American civil rights activist & diplomat
148: ...Brigham Young|Young, Brigham]], (1801-1877), American religious leader - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]]) - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ... as preserved today at the entrance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</smal...
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]]...
27: ...he following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
41: ...ople is liberated by the Byzantine emperor of [[Nicaea]], Michael Palaeologus. - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...[[France]], beginning in [[1337]] and ending in [[1453]]. Historians lump these conflicts under the same...
5: ...ies. It is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in [[medieval warfare]].
8: ...ct can be found 400 years earlier when Frankish [[Carolingian]] ruler [[Charles the Simple]] allowed t...
13: ...p III of Navarre|Philip, count of Evreux]], who became [[List of Navarrese monarchs|king consort Phili...
17: ...ng the English lords of Aquitaine, many of whom became sympathizers of [[Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of M... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...der the leadership of Octavian (better known as [[Caesar Augustus]]). Although Rome accumulated a col...
5: ...[Constantinople]]. After another millennium, in [[1453]], the Eastern Empire, better known as the [[Byza...
7: ... for such a long period of time [[31 BC]] – 1453, there are certain alternative names used by hist...
9: ...he situation was far more nuanced: certain historical forms continued until the [[Byzantine]] period, ...
11: ...as many other aspects of Western life remains inescapable. Roman titles of power were adopted by succe... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...twice the territory of the next-largest nation, [[Canada]]. It ranks eighth in the world in population...
4: ...mber [[1991]]. In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Repu...
13: ...entury]] onwards and slowly assimilated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribe...
15: ...y|11th centuries]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperous,...
17: ... Duchy of [[Lithuania]] and [[Poland]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
10: ...e flesh as [[Jesus]] (the [[Incarnation]]), and became the deliverer of both Israel and of all mankind...
12: ...ir own [[Bible]], and later also [[biblical canon|canonized]] the books of the [[New Testament]].
26: ...e Mediterranean. The core [[History of the Roman Catholic Church]] is said to extend in an unbroken t...
29: ...ut should be taught to follow what would later be called the [[Noahide Laws]] subset of the [[Law of M...
40: *[[Polycarp]], bishop of Smyrna and disciple of [[John the ... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
19: | '''[[Capital]]'''
26: | ''ca'' 40 million
45: ...tolia]], the [[Middle East]], part of [[North Africa]], and south-eastern [[Europe]]. It was establish...
47: ...ar I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites establish...
53: ...west, and from [[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in the north. The Empire was situated in the... - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
8: ... supervision of emperor [[Justinian I]] and rededicated on December 26, [[536]].
10: ...tant poetic ''ekphrasis'', probably for the rededication of [[563]], which followed the collapse of th...
12: ...rings. The temple itself was so richly and artistically decorated that Justinian is said to have procl...
16: ...and enduring in the [[Eastern Orthodox]], [[Roman Catholic]], and [[Muslim]] worlds alike.
20: ...t. The dome is carried on [[pendentive]]s-four concave triangular sections of masonry which solve the ... - Konya (2390 bytes)
1: ...s a population of 742 690 (in 2000) and it is the capital of [[Konya Province|Konya]] [[Provinces of T...
5: From [[1097]] to [[1243]] it was the capital of the [[Seljuk Turks|Seljuk]] [[Sultan]]s o...
7: ...aptured by Mongols as well. The city remained the capital of the Turkish puppet-ruler under the Mongol...
9: ...] and, in [[1453]], Konya was made the provincial capital of the Ottoman Province of Karamanid.
11: ...t and founder of [[The Whirling Dervishes]], is located there and therefore Konya is one of the holy c... - 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: ... man, the purpose of Byzantine art was the glorification of [[God]], and particularly of his son, [[Je...
9: ...the male nude had been at the centre of the classical artistic tradition from its beginnings, and the ...
11: ...yrs]] of Christian tradition were elevated, and became the dominant - indeed almost exclusive - focus ... - Byzantine coinage (4605 bytes)
4: ...mi, and 5 nummi coins (other denominations were occasionally produced). The obverse (front) of these c...
10: ... The tetarteron was unpopular and was only sporadically reissued during the tenth century. The full we...
12: ... coinage became insignificant, as Italian money became the predominant circulating coinage.
14: ...o slowly decrease in size. In the 10th century so-called "anonymous folles" were struck instead of the... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...974;μη'' in Greek), but that name never came into common use.
3: ...ple), where most gold coins circulating in Europe came from and were associated with.
5: ...that divided Christianity into [[Catholic|Western Catholicism]] and [[Eastern Orthodoxy]]. Third, the...
7: ...l 12), and then re-captured by [[Nicaean Empire|Nicaean]] forces under the command of [[Michael VIII P...
9: ...public of [[Turkey]] was founded in [[1923]], the capital was moved to [[Ankara]]; Constantinople was ... - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
2: ... three 'ages': the [[Classical civilization|classical civilization]] of [[Antiquity]], the Middle Ages...
4: ... aevus'', is spelled '''''medieval''''' in [[American English]] and sometimes '''''mediaeval''''' or '...
8: ...prising artistic sophistication, though its political and social senses were unevolved and its technol...
10: ... this connection too was lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanishe...
14: ...changes, and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared.
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