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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
14: ...Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
35: ...nnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
38: ...[[Rodolphus Agricola|Agricola, Rodolphus]], (1443-1485), Dutch scholar and humanist
50: ...ilio]], (1869-1964), [[Philippines]] independence fighter - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
1: ...t]] of King [[Richard III of England]] [[1483]]-[[1485]].
9: ... [[Henry VI of England]]. Anne's father, dissatisfied with the favours he had received for helping Ki...
11: ...England with her new husband and mother-in-law to find herself fatherless. With the death of Edward at...
21: ...d, probably of [[tuberculosis]], on [[March 16]], 1485, at [[Westminster Abbey|Westminster]], where she ...
23: == Depictions in fiction == - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
4: == Early life and first marriage ==
6: ...t the [[Second Battle of St Albans]] in [[1461]], fighting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] ...
16: ...rt Stillington]], Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
20: ...pplant Richard. Following Henry's accession in [[1485]], Elizabeth Woodville's marriage Edward IV was d... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...ns accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost nothin...
8: ... [[Eastern Orthodox]] traditions built around the figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult der...
13: ...mp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three months Mary returned to her ...
17: ...is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, an...
31: ...and Eastern Orthodox tradition, between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension, in either Je... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
8: ...fe conditions for trade and manufacture, and a unified cultural and educational milieu of far-ranging ...
19: ...d were sometimes mutually contradictory). The benefit of feudalism however, was its resiliency, and th...
21: ...uered by [[Belisarius]], but this was a political fiction under Lombard rule and became strongly dispu...
23: ... a first European "identity," [[Christendom]], unified until the separation of [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Or...
30: ... previously pagan regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation o... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
2: ...n(do) Cortés, marqués del Valle de Oaxaca''' ([[1485]]–[[December 2]], [[1547]]) was the [[conqu...
5: ... the [[Castile|Kingdom of Castile]] in Spain in [[1485]], the only child of Martín Cortés and Catalina...
12: ...e and his father-in-law, to lead an expedition, officially to explore and trade with the rumored new l...
15: ...he king. Cortés applies the classical rhetorical figure of evidentia as he crafts a powerful narrativ...
18: ...[La Malinche]]," later made legendary in book and film (even if she was not, as conquistador Bernal Di... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
31: *[[Rodolphus Agricola]], (1443-1485){{fn|R}}
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
10: ...fe conditions for trade and manufacture, and a unified cultural and educational milieu of far-ranging ...
21: ...d were sometimes mutually contradictory). The benefit of feudalism however, was its resiliency, and th...
23: ...uered by [[Belisarius]], but this was a political fiction under Lombard rule and became strongly dispu...
25: ... a first European "identity," [[Christendom]], unified until the separation of [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Or...
32: ... previously pagan regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation o... - Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
12: ...xons rapidly repelled the Celtic invaders and pacified the land. After this, there was a vast victory ...
14: ...s supposedly involved in the conquest are very difficult to locate. In general, however, Bede's eviden...
23: Ethelbert held the largely honorific title of among the kingdoms, and the re-Christia...
42: ...sh position on the island, a tendency only intensified by the [[Black Death]] and English involvement ...
44: == The fifteenth century == - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...e generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Ame...
6: ...greatly expanded concern for human rights, as typified by the [[Black Legend]], also did little to exp...
14: ...fe and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro Altamirano, first cousin of Pizarro's father. Through his father...
18: ...ng period of training and experience as a notary, first in Seville and later in [[Hispaniola]], would ...
20: ...ixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life in his small provinc...
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