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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...sitional period between the end of the [[Middle Ages]] and the start of the [[Modern Age]]. The Renais...
5: ...ns that the results of these intellectual activities created a ''revitalization'' of European culture ...
9: ===Multiple Renaissances===
10: ...viously held that it was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the [[Reformation]], which many b...
12: ...e Renaissance as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...topher Columbus]], [[Vasco da Gama]], [[Pedro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], [[Juan Ponce de Le,...
3: ...e a combination of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the rel...
7: ...ns in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who ...
11: ...[[Ottoman Empire]] further limited the possibilities for Europeans. - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...cean|Atlantic]], such as the [[Azores Islands|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] ...
5: ...omic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the r...
7: ...cial and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
13: ''Main articles: '''[[Lusitanian|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitani...
15: ...9, "A Lusit⮩a" paragraph 1}} The [[Conii]] were established in southern Portugal for a long time. Th... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...ngs and Donatello's monuments are the supreme expression of the spirit of this era in architecture and...
10: ...t elements of the classical ideal. All these figures were carved in marble and are admirably conceived...
14: ...all their angularities and deviations from the lines of beauty.
16: ...depth and space, which was to find its mature expression in the panels of the altar of [[San Antonio]]...
18: ...nt of similar works. Donatello's share in the Naples monument is probably confined to the characterist... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: ...umb|250px|''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]'', painted 1434]]
7: ...earnt to draw and paint, and mastered the properties of colours from [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]. Later ...
9: ...rgundy]], at a salary of 100 [[livre tournois|livres]] per annum, and from that time till his death Ja...
11: ...rvices at [[Leiden]], drawing his salary at [[Bruges]], yet settled in a fixed abode at [[Lille]].
13: ...known in after years as a nun in the convent of Maeseyck. At the christening of this child the duke wa... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737...
3: ...[Europe]]an trade and finance, the city is sometimes considered the birthplace of the [[Italian Renais...
5: [[Image:FlorenceSymbol-giglio.png|thumb|right|127px|"Giglio di Fire...
9: ...e:Florence_bridges.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The bridges of Florence at sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo]...
17: Florence's recorded history began with the establishment in [[59 BC]] of a settlement ("Florent... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...[[Africa]] in general, and with the legend of [[Prester John]].
5: ...ted to Christianity. For the purposes of his interest in exploration, however, the appointment proved ...
7: ...nry also arranged for the colonization of the Azores during Pedro's regency (1439–1448).
9: ...]] of the Arabs, made the complicated return voyages, headed upwind, possible; without it, the brother...
11: ...ands]] in 1420, and at Henry's instigation Portuguese settlers colonized the islands. - March 19 (9902 bytes)
8: ...ite of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken).
10: ... of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]...
13: ...rsuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the first [[United States]] air-combat mission in history.
14: .... Congress]] establishes [[time zone]]s and approves [[daylight saving time]].
15: ...d States Senate]] rejects the [[Treaty of Versailles]] for the second time (first time was on [[Novemb... - Rome (33048 bytes)
38: ...ircle the nine largest italian cities: Milan, Naples, Turin, Bologna, Palermo Catania, Florence, Genoa...
40: ...]], the highest rate among all of [[Italy]]'s cities.
42: ...c]], [[Roman Empire]]), and later the [[Papal States]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] and [[Italy|Italian Repub...
45: ... Greek ''Ρώμη'' meaning braveness, courage; more probably the connection is with a...
49: ... and of traders traveling north and south on the west side of the [[peninsula]].
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