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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...to the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as su...
7: ...es were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
11: [[Archaeological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] ...
14: ...20195;; [[pinyin]]: sāndà i) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...orated. Some archaeologists connect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in central [[Henan]] provin... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...ith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Flore...
3: ...irst female painter to become a member of the [[Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She wa...
7: ...er father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style was just ...
10: ...e of the [[Bologna]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...iosi Palace]] in [[Rome]], so Orazio hired the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unf... - Crocus (3680 bytes)
2: ...rocusLongiflorus.jpg|250px|Crocus longiflorus]] | caption = ''Crocus longiflorus''}}
9: ...s''''' }} {{Taxobox authority new | authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]}}
17: ...y occur in the early spring one has to plant them carefully as it is not uncommon in these regions for...
20: ...he genus is derived from the Latin adjective ''crocatus'', meaning saffron yellow.
22: ...Spring Flowers'', by [[Ambrosius Bosschaert]], c. 1620 ([[Louvre Museum]])]] - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...[Vasco da Gama]], [[Pedro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], [[Juan Ponce de Leó®, and [[Ferdinand Mag...
3: ...the invention of first the [[Carrack]] and then [[caravel]] in [[Iberia]]. These that were a combinati...
7: ... much of Eurasia creating trade routes and communication lines stretching from the Middle East to Chin...
9: ... first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]] and back fro...
11: ...kly as it formed and soon the route to the east became far more difficult and dangerous. The [[Black D... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...e there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ... Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
37: * 3500 BC: [[Carts]] in [[Sumer]] - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
1: ... separatists who sailed from Europe to North America in the early [[17th century]], in search of a hom...
3: ...e in [[Scrooby]] and sailed to [[Amsterdam]] to escape religious persecution at the hands of their cou...
5: ...r the [[United States|Americas]]. These people became known as the [[Pilgrims|Pilgrim Fathers]].
10: ...e [[Congregational church|Congregationalism]] advocated by Brewster and others.
12: ...ded destination was a section of land in the area called Northern [[Virginia]] granted by one of the B... - Mayflower (4074 bytes)
2: ...uth on [[September 6]] and dropping anchor near [[Cape Cod]] on [[November 11]].
6: ...it was mastered by [[Christopher Jones]], who was Captain on the trans-atlantic voyage, and based in [...
8: ...idth. Careful research went into designing a replica, the ''[[Mayflower II]]'' (launched on September ...
11: ... course by poor weather, the Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod after 65 days at sea.
21: ...of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620 - 1621]]. See some of the descendants of these Ma... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...hich had been granted a charter for the land in [[1620]].
3: ...ed at [[Plymouth Rock]] on the western shore of [[Cape Cod Bay]] in southeastern [[Massachusetts]].
5: ...yet strangely ill-fated colonial ventures in America. When the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] got its ne...
7: ...radford]] became governor in 1621 on the death of Carver, served for eleven consecutive years, and was...
12: *[[European colonization of the Americas]] - 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]]) - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...¹]] is an ancient [[China|Chinese]] [[fortification]] built from the end of the [[15th century]] ...
5: ...f the wall was not to keep out people, who could scale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic peopl...
12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]...
18: ...ayu Pass along the Silk Road. These towers communicated by [[Smoke signals|smoke to signal]] invasion.
22: ...perpetual danger of being attacked by brigands. Because many people died while building the wall, it h... - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...sen]], claimed by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 ...
6: ...o'' or compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens.
10: ...ino'' to Prince Federico Cesi, founder of the ''Accademia dei Lincei'' (in English, ''The [[Linceans]]...
12: ...ublishes ''Micrographia'', a collection of biological micrographs. He coins the word ''cell'' for the...
13: ...mproves on a simple microscope for viewing biological specimens. - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...le]]. In addition, his conflict with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example ...
4: ==Early career==
10: ...sophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
14: ...howed the reality of the experiments and even indicated the particular results that led to the time-sq...
18: ...ses. He published his initial telescopic astronomical [[observation]]s in March [[1610]] in a short tr... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...ory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientif...
4: ...ler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei...
9: ...fortunes were in decline. His father earned a precarious living as a [[mercenary]], and abandoned the...
11: ...ied, and was plagued by a belief that he was physically repulsive, thoroughly unlikable and, compared ...
13: ... of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being "called outdoors" to see it and that the moon "appear... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...odology for [[science|scientific]] inquiry, often called the ''[[Baconian method]]''. Induction implie...
10: ...ater, was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1573 at the age of 13, living for th...
12: ...y his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the young Lord Keeper."
16: ...of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction.
18: ... with insufficient means, he borrowed money and became habitually in debt. To support himself, he took... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
20: === [[1620s]] ===
22: *[[1620]]-[[Pilgrims]] arrive from [[Plymouth]], England,...
50: ...]] grants charter for a new colony, [[Province of Carolina]] - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...ocial]], [[religion|religious]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
4: ... recognize four regions in the lands that later became the eastern United States. Listed from north t...
9: ...nd colonization in many ways. A revival in classical learning sparked an interest in [[geography]] an...
11: ...rative [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]].
16: ...ing of colonies was piecemeal and variable. Practical considerations such as [[business|commercial ent... - Jan Brueghel the Younger (1191 bytes)
1: ...mb|260px|Paradise by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. 1620). Oil on oak. Gem䬤egalerie, Berlin, Germany]]
6: ...rthern Renaissance]] produced landscapes, allegorical scenes and other works of meticulous detail. Bru...
8: ...n the Younger's best works are his extensive landscapes, either under his own name or made for other a... - Diwali (5677 bytes)
2: ...of the [[Vikram calendar]], one type of a [[Hindu calendar]] that is followed by North Indians. The fo...
4: ...ngly follow a different calendar, [[Shalivahana]] calendar. In South India, the new year, entitled [[U...
10: ...roximately every seven years to resynchronize the calendar with the [[season]]s.
12: ...ion, the date of Dipavali also depends on one's location.
14: ...he remainder of India as well as for [[North America]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...elow in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ... Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
29: ...ian)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
37: *[[Cahit Arf]] (Turkey, [[1910]] - [[1997]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]]... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}}
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