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- Printing (4400 bytes)
11: Printing was first discovered and developed in [[China]]. Primiti...
13: ...rld. [[Johann Gutenberg]], of the German city of Mainz, developed European printing technology in 1440. ...
15: ...ess in Mexico City, Mexico. Stephen Day built the first printing press in North America at Massachuset...
44: * [[Ivan Fedorov]], first [[Russia]]n printer
46: * [[Francysk Skaryna]], first [[Belarus]]ian printer - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...of a [[text]] on rectangular sheets of [[paper]]. First invented in [[China]] in [[1041]], the printin...
4: ...ostly used to print [[Bible]]s. Because of the difficulties inherent in carving massive quantities of ...
6: ...o used Chinese characters in literature), the benefit of the technique is not as apparent as with alph...
8: ...ake the text. Gutenberg is also credited with the first use of an oil-based [[ink]], and using "rag" [...
12: ...r day. Books produced in this period, between the first work of Johann Gutenberg and the year 1500, ar... - Germany (46412 bytes)
19: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[German language|German]]<s...
35: |'''Formation<br>Unification/reunification<br><br><br>'''
51: ...e|Romany]] and [[Frisian language|Frisian]] are officially recognised and protected as minority langua...
62: ...sand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in [[1871]], when...
66: ...n strife, the [[Thirty Years War]] ([[1618]]) and finally the [[Peace of Westphalia]] ([[1648]]), that... - Pope Paschal II (3427 bytes)
3: ... recognizing the royal nomination to vacate [[benefice]]s and the oath of fealty for temporal domains....
5: ...he emperor at once laid claim to them as imperial fiefs and forced the pope to flee from Rome. Paschal... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
8: ...e are two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads each in the bottom for both decimal and h...
10: ...counting board used in elementary schools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do...
18: <!-- This image is a 2004 photograph of the Mainz reconstruction of the
24: ...nd seven shorter grooves, the former having up to five beads in each and the latter one.
26: ...he shorter grooves denote fives—five units, five tens, ''etc.'', essentially in a [[bi-quinary c... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
6: Gutenberg was born in the German city of [[Mainz]], as the son of a merchant named Friele Gensflei...
11: ...[[Laurens Janszoon Coster|Laurens Coster]] as the first European to invent movable type.
14: ...ickly once a single mould had been fashioned. His first efforts enabled him to mass-produce indulgence...
19: ...ears' wages for an average clerk, but it was significantly cheaper than a handwritten Bible, which cou...
26: ...efore his death in Mainz in 1468, Fust became the first printer to publish a book with his name on it. - Amphitheatre (4978 bytes)
31: [[image:Amfitheater.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The amphitheatre of ...
42: * [[Mainz]]
92: ...e audience, creating an area which echoes or amplifies sound, making the amphitheatre ideal for musica...
94: ...ain or a particular rock formation naturally amplifies or echoes sound, making it ideal for musical an... - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
3: ...aga]]. The existence of a common identity is testified by the fact that they had a name for non-German...
5: In the absence of large-scale political unification, such as that imposed forcibly by the [[Anc...
10: ...age probably arrived ca [[2000 BC]]) is also testified by the fact that no pre-Germanic place names ha...
20: ...eem to have come under the leadership of Germanic figures from outside, according to some scholars.
23: ...]] invoked the threat of such attacks as one justification for his annexation of Gaul to Rome. - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
23: ...k near to him as he was returning to school. Terrified, he cried out, "Help,[[Saint Anne]]! I'll becom...
25: ==Luther's struggle to find peace with God==
31: ... most important of these was the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
37: Luther's first public challenge of papal power came in [[1517...
41: ...eter's Basilica]], agreed that Albert could pay a fine for the violation and keep both sees. Albert wo... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
15: ...e built at [[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In ...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
10: He was the fifth child of his parents, preceded by twin boys (o...
14: ...ed to remove him from such society by sending him first to [[Caen]] and then, in the suite of the marq...
16: ...lampoon]]s on him. In May [[1716]] he was exiled, first to [[Tulle]], then to [[Sully]], later, having...
20: ...seems to have begun his long series of successful financial speculations.
28: ..., ''Marianne'', appeared and was well received at first but underwent complete damnation before the cu... - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
2: The '''First Crusade''' was launched in [[1095]] by [[Pope ...
5: ...ass of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves and terrorize the peasant pop...
7: ...isa]], [[Genoa]] and [[Aragon]] were all actively fighting Islamic strongholds in [[Majorca]] and [[Sa...
9: ...tention on the east. It was [[Pope Urban II]] who first disseminated to the general public the idea of...
12: ... extent, culturally fragmented at the time of the First Crusade, which certainly contributed to the Cr... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
15: ...e built at [[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In ...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
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