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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. ...
16: ...ion and attracted crowds of listeners, who had difficulties in believing their reports of distant Chin...
25: ...Zipang or Cipangu. This is usually considered the first mention of [[Japan]] in Western literature. Ho... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...within the Anglo-French unit" that was both battlefield and prize (Braudel 1984 p. 353).
5: ...chies. It is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in [[medieval warfare]].
13: The specific events that led up to the war in the early 14th ...
17: In [[1324]], Charles IV and the English king [[Edward II of...
27: ...homage]] for this possession was a matter more difficult to resolve. Philip VI wanted Edward's recogni... - Venice (22017 bytes)
6: ... other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pisa]], and [[Amalfi]]). Its strategic position at head of the Adriati...
10: ...r west as the [[Adda River]], were known as "Terrafirma", and were acquired partly as a buffer against...
12: ...]], symbol of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the men, supplies, and (especial...
16: ... [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] peers to resign the office and retire into [[monastery|monastic]] seclusio...
24: ...that Venice became perhaps the most elegant and refined city in [[Europe]], greatly influencing [[art]... - Padua (12961 bytes)
7: ...d; the internal partition walls remained till the fire of [[1420]], when the Venetian architects who u...
11: ...1438]]-[[1441]]), which was cast in [[1453]], the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiqui...
13: ...nguished as containing the tombs of [[Jacopo]] ([[1324]]) and [[Ubertino]] ([[1345]]) da Carrara, lords ...
17: ...cted many distinguished artists, as Giotto, [[Fra Filippo Lippi]] and Donatello; and for native art th...
22: ...t was reported able to raise two hundred thousand fighting men. [[Abano]] nearby is the birthplace of ...
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