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- Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...ghting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] cause. (This was ironic, as Edward IV was the Yorki...
10: ...eth Woodville became common knowledge, it was the cause of considerable rancour on Warwick's part, and...
12: ...ry wealthy. The queen also married her sister, [[Catherine Woodville]], to her 11-year-old ward [[Hen...
16: ... Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
18: ...zabeth now lost the title of Queen Mother and was called The Dame Elizabeth Grey. She and her other c... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...ell as the [[Protestant Reformation]] starting in 1517. These various changes all mark the beginning of...
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... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
1: ...ptian Pyramids|Pyramids]] have become a symbol of Cairo internationally]]
2: ...lous metropolitan area]] in the world. Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (30.03333,...
4: ...صر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local dialect.
6: ...e Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are exampl...
7: ...[Image:EgyptAlQahirah.png|thumb|200px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] highligh... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
16: ...gn=center colspan=2 | [[image:LocationEgypt.png|Location of Egypt]]
24: | '''[[Capital]] and Largest City'''
25: | [[Cairo]]
54: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
56: ... [[republic]] mostly located in North-Eastern Africa. - History of Egypt (1881 bytes)
4: ..., to the north by the sea and to the south by the Cataracts of the Nile. The need to have a single aut...
6: ...b to foreign rule; however, it proved unable to escape from it, and for 2,300 years Egypt was governed...
12: *[[History of early Arab Egypt]]: [[639]] to [[1517]]
13: *[[History of Ottoman Egypt]]: [[1517]] to [[1805]]
20: *[[History of Africa]] - Israel (51605 bytes)
11: image_map = LocationIsrael.png |
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $22,944 |
35: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 30th |
46: calling_code = 972 | - 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]]) - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...ople]], the [[Albigensian Crusade]] against the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crus...
6: == Historical background ==
7: ...ry, combined with the relative stabilization of local European borders after the Christianization of t...
9: ...ose who were killed in battle. Even today Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstine...
11: ...o marshal public opinion in their favor, people became personally engaged in a dramatic religious cont... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...] by the [[Roman Catholic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and...
5: ...[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ...ent in the form of wearing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [[flagellation]].
9: ...ided his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually rese...
11: ==Early political career== - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
1: [[Image:Machiavelli.jpg|thumb|150px|Machiavelli, ca [[1500]], in the robes of a Florentine public off...
3: ...elli was also a key figure in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial to European statecraft during ...
10: ...ouis XII was also the king who committed the five capital errors in statecraft summarized in ''The Pri...
12: ...lic tomb in his honor can be found at the [[Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze]].
15: ...as viewed in a negative light largely because the Catholic church put the work in its Index – a ... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
6: ...the European countries, but not in the Kingdom of Castile & Leon!
8: ...ladolid]], capital of Castile, and [[Barcelona]], capital of the [[Crown of Aragon]], had large [[Jew]...
10: ...le in arranging Ferdinand's marriage to Isabella. Castile even had an unofficial Crown [[Rabbi]], a pr...
14: ...uisitor whom Ferdinand installed in [[Saragossa]] Cathedral was assassinated by [[New Christian]]s (fo...
16: ...ies with St. Peter's in Rome as part of his political manoeuvering, aimed at consolidating the indepen... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
7: ...ght by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
9: ...llan would also first experience battle: when a local king refused to pay tribute, Almeida's party att...
11: ... [[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship ea...
13: ...nee wound while fighting against the Moorish-Moroccan stronghold. Although wounded and the recipient o...
18: ...e]], the main port of Spain, on [[October 20]], [[1517]], and from there went to [[Valladolid]] to see t... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
2: '''Hernán(do) Cortés, marqués del Valle de Oaxaca''' ([[1485]]–[[December 2]], [[1547]]) was ...
5: ...[Francisco Pizarro]], who later conquered the [[Inca]] empire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confus...
7: Cortés took classes at [[Salamanca]] but bitterly disappointed his parents by return...
10: ...d so well in the conquest of the [[Canary Islands|Canaries]] (eliminating the indigenous [[Guanches]])...
12: - 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... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
5: image_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) |
12: ...d upon the [[Counter-Reformation]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]].
14: ...atharina von Bora]] began the tradition of [[clerical marriage]] within several Christian traditions.
26: ...ied to do for God, it seemed, the more aware he became of his sinfulness.
28: ...rg]]. Luther earned his Bachelor's degree in Biblical Studies on [[March 9]], [[1508]] and a Bachelor'... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19th century, they exerted i...
5: ...h;1918 was often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the sa...
7: ... the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further ...
15: ...ius Quinctilius Varus]] was defeated by the Cheruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of...
21: ...AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of the Chur... - Manganese (14965 bytes)
16: <td>[[Chemical series]] </td><td>[...
20: <td>[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] </td><td>7470 [[kilogram per cubi...
28: <td>[[Atomic radius]] (calc.) </td><td>[[1 E-10 m|14...
42: ...span="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0">'''Physical properties'''</th></tr>
45: ...g point]] </td><td>1517 [[Kelvin|K]] (2271 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])</td></tr> - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
2: ...velled over land and by sea towards Jerusalem and captured the city in July [[1099]], establishing the...
5: ...er in the [[Middle Ages]]. The breakdown of the [[Carolingian empire]] in previous centuries, combined...
7: ...l actively fighting Islamic strongholds in [[Majorca]] and [[Sardinia]], freeing the coasts of Italy a...
9: ...ed to the general public the idea of a Crusade to capture the Holy Land with the famous words: "God wi...
12: ...ypt were all under Muslim control, but were politically and, to some extent, culturally fragmented at ... - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
2: ...l as the [[Protestant Reformation]] starting in [[1517]]. These various changes all mark the beginning ...
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. - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ...people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19th century, they exerted i...
5: ...h;1918 was often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the sa...
7: ... the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further ...
15: ...ius Quinctilius Varus]] was defeated by the Cheruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of...
21: ...AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of the Chur...
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