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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: ... of the southwest of what is now the [[United States]].
7: ...n of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: ...thing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Z...
11: ...nt northwest, and heard of a great river further west (the [[Colorado River (U.S.)|Colorado]]). [[Garc...
12: ...his winter quarters in one of them, [[Tiguex]] (present-day [[Bernalillo]] near [[Albuquerque, New Mex... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ..., however, were in many cases reversed by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Ma...
13: ...se assertions that she was created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his ...
15: ...ives]] upon the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
17: ...iage treaty was signed; it provided that the Princess Mary should marry either Francis or his second s... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...ndash; [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because ...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Ma...
12: ...tland]], on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de G...
14: ...es could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...ary ascended the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the de... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...irgin Queen''', '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch ...
9: ...en saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VI...
11: ...ies, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baronies]] in the [[Peerage of England]], and one barony i...
13: ...ica]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen...
16: ...the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]]. - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
1: ...mage:DESPREZ.JPG|Josquin Des Prez]]<br>''Josquin Des Prez''</div>
2: ...Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is usually considered to be the centr...
6: ..., during the period when it became one of the largest and most famous choirs in Europe; the ensemble i...
8: ...s, widely acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces.
10: ...direct connection to them has been discovered by researchers. He remained at Cond頵ntil his death in... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ... [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[cartographer]] of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] n...
9: ...ercator produced a map of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] ([[1537]]), another map of the world ([[153...
12: ...as compass courses could be marked as straight lines.
15: ...e took the word [[atlas (cartography)|atlas]] to describe a collection of maps, and encouraged [[Abrah...
17: ...atormuseum in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and work. - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: ... of the southwest of what is now the [[United States]]. He was born in [[Salamanca]], [[Spain]].
5: ...of which was [[Juan de Padilla]], and several slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
8: ...thing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Z...
10: ...he brutal [[Tiguex War]], which resulted in the destruction of the Tiguex pueblos and the death of hu...
12: ...rther to Quivira, and he reached a village near present-day [[Lindsborg, Kansas]]. But his disappointm... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 B... - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
2: ...stern world]] will also be accounted for in the present article.
4: ...nce of the 12th century]], interest in natural investigation was renewed. Science developed in this go...
6: ... of Middle Ages as supposedly "[[Dark Ages|Dark Ages]]".
8: ==The Middle Ages: Western World==
10: ===[[Early Middle Ages]]=== - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
1: {{Nofootnotes|article|date=October 2007}}
5: ...ado had hoped to conquer the mythical [[Seven Cities of Gold]].
8: ...ef> [http://genforum.genealogy.com/coronado/messages/30.html Origin of Vázquez de
11: ... find no reliable source on either side of this question, just lots of blogs and such. -->
14: ...d that he could see the Pacific Ocean off to the west. - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...]]'' who led an expedition that caused the [[conquest of the Aztec Empire|fall of the Aztec empire]] a...
4: ...qués del Valle de [[Oaxaca]]'', while the more prestigious title of [[New Spain|Viceroy]] was given t...
6: ...ividual. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and ei...
10: ...th the Spanish and English languages in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by to...
14: ... distant relative of [[Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres]], the third Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal... - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...59]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and his successor.
7: * showed that the [[lens (vision)|lens]] lies to the front of the [[eye]]ball, not in the centr...
8: * showed that [[artery|arteries]] expand with each [[heart]]beat
9: ...wed that the [[pulmonary valve]] of the heart closes during [[diastole]], preventing reflux
12: His discoveries paved the way for [[William Harvey]]'s discovery ... - Padua (12961 bytes)
1: ...4565.JPG|thumb|280px|Tronco Maestro Riviera: a pedestrian walk along a section of the "inland waterway...
2: ...ze'', and many bridges crossing the various branches of the [[Bacchiglione]], which once surrounded th...
4: Padua was where most of the action in [[Shakespeare]]'s play, ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', t...
7: ...great hall, the ''Salone''. The new space was refrescoed by [[Nicolo' Miretto]] and [[Stefano da Ferra...
9: ...d close by is the [[Palazzo del Capitanio]], the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great d... - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
3: ...[[geographic]] features and [[political]] boundaries, many often feature [[geopolitical]], [[social]],...
5: ==Atlases throughout history==
7: The earliest atlases were not called by that name at the time of their...
11: ...embled to Order) or more frequently "Lafreri atlases" after one of the leading publishers of the perio...
13: ... It was an immediate critical and commercial success.
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