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- Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: '''Margaret of Anjou''' ([[March 23]], [[1429]] - [[August 25...
3: Margaret was born in the province of [[Lorraine]] in [[Fra...
12: ... was the result of an adulterous liaison on Margaret's part.
14: ...aid to have witnessed her commander, [[James Touchet, Lord Audley]] defeated by a Yorkist army under [...
16: ...k and the Earl of Salisbury were destroyed. Margaret had both beheaded, and ordered the placing of the... - 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... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
6: ...stern Europe]], its territories were entered and settled by succeeding waves of "[[barbarian]]" tribal...
8: ..., the new peoples greatly altered established society, and with it, law, culture and religion, and pat...
12: ...hristian influences, produced a new model for society. The centralised administrative systems of the R...
14: ...ng, and a centralised administration through its network of [[bishop]]s. The Early Middle Ages are cha...
16: ...ntities, as strong rulers sought to eliminate competition (and potential threat to their rule) from po... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
9: ... art can be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian an...
15: ...he Roman crafts of painting, mosaic, carving and metalwork.
19: ...Migration period]] from about 300-900 (to be completed).
21: ''Pre-Romanesque art'' (to be completed)
23: ''Romanesque art'' (to be completed) - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...m by LIFE Magazine. Apart from Gutenberg, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]] has a...
4: ...d of printing was [[block printing]], pressing sheets of paper into individually carved wooden blocks ...
6: ...of the technique is not as apparent as with alphabetic based languages. Movable type did spur, however...
8: ...y all. The other candidate advanced is the [[The Netherlands|Dutchman]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]].
12: ... created per day. Books produced in this period, between the first work of Johann Gutenberg and the ye... - Greece (54754 bytes)
40: | [[Eastern European Time|EET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+2)<br/>[[Ea...
44: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.gr]]
59: ...nish language|Spanish]] {{lang|es|''Grecia''}}, ''etc.'' In most Middle Eastern and Eastern languages...
65: ...ciated with the sea. After the internal struggle between Spartans and Athenians, all parts of Greece w...
72: ...tantinople. Furthermore, although the Byzantines retained control of the Aegean and its islands throug... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress...
54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
43: | [[1453]]
46: ...into Western and Eastern halves. Others place it yet further in 476, when the last western emperor, [[...
51: ...ed by the rift caused by the 9th century dispute between Romans (Byzantines as we render them today) a...
53: ... who was motivated, at least partly, to re-interpret Roman history in different terms. Nevertheless, t...
57: ... the East and ended its thousand year history, in 1453, as a [[Greek Orthodox]] state: An empire that be... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...ar was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French [[civil war...
8: ...he [[Vikings]] of [[Rollo of Normandy|Rollo]] to settle in a part of his kingdom known as [[Normandy]]...
10: ...land and England stood to become very wealthy by retaking it. The war was both a "[[Nationalism|nation...
13: ...ty in medieval European history). In 1314, the Capetian king [[Philip IV of France|Philip IV]] died, l...
15: ...s X), but precedent for only male heirs had been set. When Philip V died in [[1322]], his daughters we... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as [[Caesar Augustus]]). Although Rome ...
5: ...her millennium, in [[1453]], the Eastern Empire, better known as the [[Byzantine Empire]], fell to the...
7: ... for such a long period of time [[31 BC]] – 1453, there are certain alternative names used by hist...
9: ...y]], and the [[Dominate]], the period from [[Diocletian]] until the end of the Empire in the West. Acc...
11: ...ccessor states and other entities with imperial pretensions, including the [[Frankish]] kingdom, the [... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...''Rossiya'' or ''Rossija''), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern [[Europe]] and...
4: ...oviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR).
6: ...ble, but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
13: ...vading [[Goths]], [[Huns]], and Turkic [[Avars]] between the third and sixth centuries CE. The Iranian...
19: ...rthern part of Russia together with [[Novgorod]] retained some degree of autonomy during the time of t... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ..."Jewish" teaching is valid, led to an early rift between Christianity and the temple priesthood, and l...
10: ...born until now, often relying on different interpretations of various passages from the Old Testament ...
12: ...r, use of [[music]] in hymns and prayer, and [[ascetic]] disciplines such as [[fasting]] and [[alms|al...
18: === The life of Jesus of Nazareth ===
29: ...at would later be called the [[Noahide Laws]] subset of the [[Law of Moses]]. The [[Didache]] found in... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...x130;mparatorluğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
45: ...as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empi...
47: ...s with the [[Caliphate]], the Islamic State. In [[1453]], after the Ottomans [[Fall of Constantinople|ca...
53: ...[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[Hu...
55: ... a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestants]] were helped by th... - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
10: ...et [[Paulus the Silentiary]] composed an extant poetic ''ekphrasis'', probably for the rededication of...
20: ...endentives to four massive piers at the corners. Between them the dome seems to float upon four great ...
32: ...ile figurative representation has never been completely banned in Islamic art, figures of humans in a ... - Konya (2390 bytes)
7: ... The city remained the capital of the Turkish puppet-ruler under the Mongol warlord [[M?e Khan]].
9: ...aramanid fell to the [[Ottoman Empire]] and, in [[1453]], Konya was made the provincial capital of the O...
11: ...b of [[Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi]], a mystical poet and founder of [[The Whirling Dervishes]], is loc...
13: ...umption of [[raki]] (both of these have become something of 'urban legends' in Turkey and have little ... - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
1: ...ntury]] until the fall of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]]. (The Roman Empire during this period is conven...
3: ... under the rule of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after [[1453]]. In some respects the Byzantine artistic tradit...
7: ...Ancient Greek art was replaced by a [[Christian]] ethic. If the purpose of classical art was the glori...
13: ...c representation in art. This is sometimes interpreted as a decline in artistic skills and standards, ...
15: ...d by Christ, a striking illustration of the link between Church and State in the Byzantine Empire. The... - Byzantine coinage (4605 bytes)
2: ...the [[gold]] [[solidus (coin)|solidus]] and a variety of clearly valued [[bronze]] coins.
4: ...zantine currency by numismatics began with the monetary reform of [[Roman Emperor Anastasius I|Anastas...
6: ...nted in varying fineness with a weight generally between 7.5 and 8.5 grams. The Miliaresion was minted...
10: ... widely circulated in the Near East) and later Venetian and other northern Italian coinage.
12: ...lation until the end of the Byzantine Empire in [[1453]], though after the second half of the fourteenth... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...s [[Turkey]]. Today, Constantinople is the area between the [[Golden Horn]] and the [[Sea of Marmara]...
5: ...rom the [[Danube|Lower Danube]], found easier targets to the west rather than pursing the richer provi...
9: ...y fell to the [[Ottoman Empire]] on [[May 29]], [[1453]], during the reign of Constantine Paleologos (&#... - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
4: ...'''''medieval''''' in [[American English]] and sometimes '''''mediaeval''''' or '''''medi涡l''''' in ...
8: ...stern Europe]], its territories were entered and settled by succeeding waves of "[[barbarian]]" tribal...
10: ..., the new peoples greatly altered established society, and with it, law, culture and religion, and pat...
14: ...hristian influences, produced a new model for society. The centralised administrative systems of the R...
16: ...ng, and a centralised administration through its network of [[bishop]]s. The Early Middle Ages are cha...
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