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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
7: [[Image:Vitruvian.jpg|right|thumb|180px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example o...
30: ...ellai]] wrote that he belonged to a great age; [[Leonardo Bruni]]'s <i>Panegyric to the City of Floren...
32: ...d, for example [[Rucellai's Palazzo]] built by [[Leone Battista Alberti]]. Of [[Filippo Brunelleschi|B...
36: ...ie and rivalry produced by a very small elite. [[Leone Battista Alberti|Alberti]] felt that he had pla...
47: 2. The ''[[great man theory|great man]]'' argument. [[Donatello]], [[Filipp... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...in Europe. In the process, Europeans encountered peoples and mapped lands previously unknown to them. ...
6: ...map.JPG|200px|thumb|right|This map, made by Arab geographer [[al-Idrisi]], was one of the most accurat...
15: ... was also through the Arabs that [[Ancient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time givi...
18: ...naging to push a few miles further south and in [[1434]] the obstacle of [[Cape Bojador]] was overcome. ...
40: ... the northern part of the Americas as it had few people and far fewer riches than Central America. The... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ...m [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local peoples, the [[Iberians]], forming the [[Celt-Iberian...
27: ...{{ref|independence}} while a war raged between [[Leon]] and [[Castile]]. Henry died and his son, [[Afo...
31: ...ictorious John was then acclaimed as king by the people.
40: ... expansion possible and led to great advances in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed b...
42: In [[1434]], [[Gil Eanes]] rounded [[Cape Bojador]], south ... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...ook his measurements of the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] dome and of other Roman buildings. These inves...
10: ...e prophets for the cathedral door to the ''Saint George'', Donatello's gradual maturation is visible. ...
14: ... cruelly realistic character portraits of actual people, just as the arms and legs and necks are faith...
23: ...cides with Cosimo's. Almost immediately, in May [[1434]], he signed a contract for the marble pulpit on ... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: ...umb|250px|''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]'', painted 1434]]
26: ...with the Pinks", in the Berlin Museum ([[1432]]-[[1434]]), show no relaxation of power; but later creati...
28: ...he [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]] (1434), in which a rare insight into the detail of anim...
30: ...e the Virgin under the protection of St George ([[1434]]). - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737...
23: ...arts, commissioning works by [[Michelangelo]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and [[Botticelli]].
38: ...th]] centuries was precipitated by Florentines' preoccupation with money and with [[conspicuous consum...
68: ...ns the monumental tombs of [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], Michelangelo, Dante, and many other notables.
79: ==Notable people from the city== - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
9: ...ived an invitation to come to Sagres and compile geographic knowledge for Henry, a position he accepte...
15: ...me the first European known to pass the cape in [[1434]].
17: ... coast of Africa as far as present-day [[Sierra Leone]]. - March 19 (9902 bytes)
24: ...York, New York|New York]], [[New York]] kills 24 people.
31: ... War]]: [[Argentina|Argentines]] land on [[South Georgia]] Island, precipitating war.
35: ...crash head-on in [[Ĥnekoski]], [[Finland]]. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
40: *[[1434]] - [[Ashikaga Yoshikatsu]], Japanese shogun (b. ...
70: *[[1928]] - [[Hans K? theologian - Rome (33048 bytes)
15: ...omanus – [[SPQR]]''<br>(The Senate and the People of Rome)</small>
45: ...gin of the city's name is unknown, with several theories already circulating in Antiquity; the least l...
49: ...for another [[Italic languages|Italic]] speaking people the [[Sabines]]. At this location the Tiber fo...
51: ====Peoples of Early Italy====
52: ...blending of these peoples with [[Mediterranean]] people, perhaps from [[North Africa]]. In the [[8th c...
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