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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...pean history]]. It marks the transitional period between the end of the [[Middle Ages]] and the start ...
5: ...anslation, used by French historian [[Jules Michelet]], and expanded upon by [[Switzerland|Swiss]] his...
10: ...Renaissance]]'', the ''[[English Renaissance]]'', etc. This terminology is particularly useful because...
19: ...orence]]. One early Renaissance figure is the [[poet]] [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] ([[1265]]–[[132...
21: ...age through ancient manuscripts and the humanist method of learning. These new ideas from the past (ca... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
7: ...etween Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city st...
15: .... Another factor was the centuries long conflict between the Iberians and the Muslims to the south. Fo...
18: ...naging to push a few miles further south and in [[1434]] the obstacle of [[Cape Bojador]] was overcome. ...
22: ...union of [[Aragon]] and [[Castille]] and the completion of the ''[[reconquista]]'' that the large nati...
24: ...f this line, territory that was still almost completely unknown. - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other col...
15: .... The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
23: ...he [[Visigoth]]s, invaded the Iberian peninsula, set up kingdoms, and became assimilated. The [[Vandal...
25:
27: ...ds of the cities of [[Coimbra]] and [[Porto]], together with the clergy of Braga, demanded the indepen... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
3: '''Donatello''' ('''Donato di Niccolo Betto Bardi''') ([[1386]] - [[December 13]], [[1466]]...
7: ...rti]]'s studio. He was too young to enter the competition for the North [[Baptistery (Florence)|Baptis...
10: ...bly conceived in relation to their architectural setting. In fact, so strong is this tendency that the...
14: ...its bald head), ''Jeremiah'', and an unknown prophet who is supposed to bear the features of the human...
18: ...e Ascension''. The Baptistery tomb shows how completely Donatello had mastered the forms of Renaissanc... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: ...umb|250px|''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]'', painted 1434]]
9: ...gue]] as [[Count of Holland]]. From the Hague he returned in [[1424]] to take service with Philip, now...
11: ...[Leiden]], drawing his salary at [[Bruges]], yet settled in a fixed abode at [[Lille]].
13: ...ide fixed the duke's choice. After his return he settled finally at Bruges, where he married, and his ...
15: ...nce, none being better than those which were completed about [[1432]]. - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737...
3: ...al [[Europe]]an trade and finance, the city is sometimes considered the birthplace of the [[Italian Re...
9: ...|right|thumb|300px|The bridges of Florence at sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo]]
17: ...ement ("Florentia") for [[Roman Republic|Roman]] veterans. The seat of a bishopric from around the beg...
19: ...fe by the [[13th century|13th-century]] struggle between the [[Ghibellines]], supporters of the [[Germ... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
5: ... successor to the [[Knights Templar]], which had set up its headquarters in 1413 at [[Sagres]], near [...
7: ...ng [[Alphonso V of Portugal]]'s minority, and in return received a confirmation of this tax. Henry al...
9: ...lateen sail]] of the Arabs, made the complicated return voyages, headed upwind, possible; without it, ...
11: ...] in 1420, and at Henry's instigation Portuguese settlers colonized the islands.
15: ...me the first European known to pass the cape in [[1434]]. - March 19 (9902 bytes)
10: ...attle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
12: ... the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
26: ...]] [[Stan Getz]] [[Sound_recording|records]] ''[[Getz/Gilberto]]'', including ''[[The Girl from Ipanem...
29: ...its day-to-day business via the cable television network [[C-SPAN]].
40: *[[1434]] - [[Ashikaga Yoshikatsu]], Japanese shogun (b. ... - Rome (33048 bytes)
25: ...ation]]<br/> - City ([[2004]])<br /> - Metropolitan <br /> - [[Density]] (city proper) ...
27: |[[Time zone]]||[[Central European Time|CET]], [[UTC]]+1
38: ...807 (2004) with almost 4 million living in the [[metropolitan area]]. The current [[mayor of Rome]] is...
49: Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the [[Palatine Hill]] and [[Seven hill...
52: ...enisula with two other major ethnic groups: the [[Etruscans]], in the North and the [[Greeks]] in the ...
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