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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
21: ...en [[August 26]] and [[October 31]] in the year [[1451]], in the Italian port city of [[Genoa]]. His fat...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...bel'' is used in modern Spanish) ([[April 22]], [[1451]] – [[November 26]], [[1504]]) was [[Kings ...
8: ...hilippa of Lancaster]], daughter of John of Gaunt from his first wife [[Blanche of Lancaster]]. Her fi...
18: The regime of [[Francisco Franco]] claimed the prestige of the Catholic Monarc...
19: ... a reaction, Isabella was despised by opposers to Franco.
30: *[[Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros|Cardinal Cisneros]], I... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
107: * [[1451]]: [[Concave lens]] for [[eyeglasses]]: [[Nichola...
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]] - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
15: ...nting during Roger's lifetime. His style differs from van Eyck's in its direct emotionality and his s...
18: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1440]]), [[Madrid]]
19: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1443]]), Sint-Pieterskerk, [[Leu...
21: ...with Saints'' ([[1450]]), [[Stadel Institute]], [[Frankfurt]]
22: ...udgment]]'' ([[1451]]), hospital of [[Beaune]], [[France]] - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...ovince (or a group of provinces) within the Anglo-French unit" that was both battlefield and prize (Br...
8: ... the conflict can be found 400 years earlier when Frankish [[Carolingian]] ruler [[Charles the Simple]...
10: ...ns who still spoke a version of [[French language|French]], and could remember a time when their grand...
13: ...ng three male heirs. The eldest son, [[Louis X of France|Louis X]], died in [[1316]], leaving only a d...
15: ...ide in favor of the last brother, [[Charles IV of France|Charles IV]], without question. - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
6: ...city of [[Mainz]], as the son of a merchant named Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, who adopted the surnam...
14: ...ny) to Strassburg (then a part of Germany, now in France and called Strasbourg) around 1430. Knowing t...
19: At the 1455 [[Frankfurt Book Fair]], Gutenberg demonstrated the po...
23: ...is doubtful that any copies were ever sold at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
31: ...ntions are sometimes considered the turning point from the [[Middle Ages|Mediaeval Era]] to the [[Earl... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...ish flag. Most notably, in [[1497]], he set sail from [[Bristol]] on his ship the ''[[Matthew (ship)|...
6: ...[Genoa]], others [[Gaeta]]. The date was around [[1451]], but he moved to [[Venice]] in his youth, and l...
10: ...urther one is from the [[equator]], so the voyage from western [[Europe]] to eastern Asia would be sho...
12: ...Henry VII of England]] gave him a grant "full and free authoritie, leave, and power, to sayle to all p...
16: ...-largest seaport in England, and during the years from [[1480]] onwards several expeditions had been s... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
45: ...mply as ''the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottom...
47: ...tantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the [[Byzantine Empire]], it became the Ottoman...
53: ... in the east to [[Hungary]] in the northwest, and from [[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in t...
60: ...his was the [[Crimean war]] in which the English, French, Ottomans and others united against Russia.
61: ...om foreign occupation (e.g. Egypt occupied by the French in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 18... - Bosporus (3180 bytes)
3: ...sarı and Rumelihisarı. The depth varies from 36 to 124 meters in midstream.
5: ...Fatih Sultan Mehmed Bridge over the Bosporus seen from over Rumelihisarı]]
12: [[Image:bosporus_sat.jpg|thumb|300px|Bosporus from space, May 1996]]
16: ...d (river)|ford]]" or "ox passage"; the name comes from a [[Greek mythology|Greek myth]] about [[Io (my...
20: ...nadoluhisari]] ([[1393]]) and [[Rumelihisari]] ([[1451]]). Its strategic importance remains high: severa...
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