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- Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ...ogether with his father and uncle, was one of the first Westerners to travel the [[Silk Road]] to [[Ch...
3: ==The first voyage==
5: ...arco. His father and his uncle Maffeo (also ''Maffio'') were prosperous merchants in the East trade. ...
13: ...with the Pope's response to [[Kublai Khan]], in [[1271]]. This time Niccolò ´¯ok his son Marco. Soon aft...
16: ...ion and attracted crowds of listeners, who had difficulties in believing their reports of distant Chin... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the relatively passive ...
7: ... [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: ... Polo]] who traveled throughout the Orient from [[1271]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written up as ''[[...
11: ... East was always be too long and difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic ...
15: ...cient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time giving European sailors some idea of the ... - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
7: ...times like these there was no dynasty ruling a unified China.
9: ...ne example of the potential for confusion will suffice. The conventional date [[1644]] marks the year ...
24: <td>The Three August Ones and the Five Emperors</td>
136: <td>南北朝</td>
159: <td>Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms</td> - Crusade (28507 bytes)
7: ...ass of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves and terrorize the peasant pop...
9: ...e [[mercenaries]] from elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic [[Moors]]. In [[1063]], [[...
11: ...ifest in the overwhelming popular support for the First Crusade, and the religious vitality of the 12t...
20: The trigger for the First Crusade was Emperor [[Alexius I]]'s appeal to ...
23: ..., with its sense that the highest good was to die fighting for the cause of the right deity, in a Chri... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ...
167: ! width="18%" | Pontificate - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ...rooklyn residents, shortened to ''Dodgers'' and officially adopted in 1932. During the Wilbert Robinso...
8: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[Ebbets Field]] ([[1913]]-[[1957]]), [[Los Angeles Memorial ...
23: ... history were clouded in uncertainty. After their first year they joined the [[American Association]],...
25: ...d heavily to finance the construction of [[Ebbets Field]], which would become the Dodgers' home in [[1...
27: ...ams of the late [[1920s]] became known as the "Daffiness Boys" for their distracted, error-ridden styl... - Ramesses II (3861 bytes)
9: ...peace treaty]], believed to have been drawn up in 1271 BC.
11: Ramesses also campaigned south of the [[Aswan|first cataract]] into [[Nubia]]. He constructed many...
13: ...ntified with the pharaoh of whom the [[biblical]] figure [[Moses]] is popularly believed to have deman...
15: ...nd placed in the [[Egyptian Museum]] in [[Cairo]] five years later, where it is still exhibited with p... - Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
3: ...the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms|Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]], were a time of di...
5: .... The '''Northern Song''' ([[960]]-[[1127]]) signifies the time when the Song capital was in the north...
7: ...yed the Song dynasty in [[1279]] and once more unified China, this time as part of a vast Mongol empir...
12: ...supporters were replaced by centrally appointed officials. This system of civilian rule led to a great...
14: ...prestige. The development of paper money and a unified tax system meant the development of a true nati...
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