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  1. Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
    2: ...[Queen consort]] of King [[Edward IV of England]] from [[1464]] until his death in [[1483]].
    6: ... claimant to the throne.) Elizabeth had two sons from the marriage, [[Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Do...
    10: ...ick]], was negotiating a marriage alliance with [[France]]. When the marriage to Elizabeth Woodville ...
    36: * Bridget Plantagenet (1480-1517), nun at Dartford Priory, Kent
  2. Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
    1: ...ell as the [[Protestant Reformation]] starting in 1517. These various changes all mark the beginning of...
    6: ...ern European historians. That term has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotyp...
    8: ... lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise o...
    12: ...oon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction between the cult...
    14: ...ying cultural influence, preserving its selection from Latin learning, maintaining the art of writing,...
  3. Cairo (12536 bytes)
    6: ...invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are e...
    26: The current location of Cairo was too far from the ancient course of the Nile to support a cit...
    28: ...t]], which lay close to an ancient Egyptian canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.
    30: ...Abbasid]]s, and contains the first [[mosque]] in Africa.
    32: ... settlement grew into a small city. The [[North Africa]]n [[Shiite]] [[Fatimid]] Dynasty conquered Eg...
  4. Egypt (18830 bytes)
    22: | [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]]
    40: | from the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br />[[28 February]],...
    56: ...s a [[republic]] mostly located in North-Eastern Africa.
    58: ...he majority of the country is located in [[North Africa]]. It shares land borders with [[Libya]] to th...
    67: ...959;&#962;'' "aiguptos", which in turn is derived from the ancient [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] phra...
  5. History of Egypt (1881 bytes)
    6: ...foreign rule; however, it proved unable to escape from it, and for 2,300 years Egypt was governed by f...
    12: *[[History of early Arab Egypt]]: [[639]] to [[1517]]
    13: *[[History of Ottoman Egypt]]: [[1517]] to [[1805]]
    20: *[[History of Africa]]
  6. Israel (51605 bytes)
    1: ...ia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines o...
    38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by t...
    60: ...ncia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Philistine]]'' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ...
    68: ...fore becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the size of ...
    73: ...nd. The Jewish population in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]...
  7. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
    12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
    17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
    29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
    59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]])
  8. Crusade (28507 bytes)
    2: ...ian Crusade]] against the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crusades]].
    7: ...ght an outlet for their violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I]] in opposing...
    9: ...day Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstinence]] with prayer or alms (except duri...
    18: ...n and consider how the idea of a holy war emerged from this background.'' &mdash; [[Norman F. Cantor]]
    21: ... Eastern church, [[Alexius I]] expected some help from a fellow Christian. However, the response was m...
  9. Thomas More (15893 bytes)
    2: ...ic offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[1529]] to [[1532]]. More coined the word "[[...
    7: ...o Lincoln's Inn while he considered joining the [[Franciscan]] order. Perhaps because he judged himse...
    12: ... as an honest and effective public servant. In [[1517]] More entered the king's service as councilor an...
    19: ...Christian humanist in continental Europe, and his friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his master...
    23: ...g [[Tudor dynasty]], which had wrested the throne from Richard at the end of the [[Wars of the Roses]]...
  10. Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
    10: ...to [[France]] to obtain terms from [[Louis XII of France|Louis XII]] for continuing the war against [[...
    33: ...y, he was hoping that a strong ruler would emerge from the [[Medici]] family, uniting Italy by expelli...
    35: ...man Titus Livy. Machiavelli comments on passages from Livy's history and analogizes them to situation...
    48: *''Ritratti delle cose di Francia,'' [[1510]]
    49: ...prima deca di Tito Livio]],'' 3 vols., [[1512]]-[[1517]] (''Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus L...
  11. Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
    3: ...isition was the result of the reconquest of Spain from the [[Muslim]]s and the policy of converting Sp...
    6: ...] and [[Valencia]], there was a local inquisition from the [[Middle Ages]], as in the rest of the Euro...
    22: ...on]], who threatened to withhold military support from his kingdom of [[Sicily]]. Sixtus issued the [[...
    26: ...possession of [[Greece]] and the Greek islands. [[France]], as always, was looking for signs of weakne...
    36: ...often used to gain repentance. Punishments ranged from public shame to burning at the stake&mdash;dead...
  12. Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
    2: ...ho sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first to sail from [[Europe]] westwards to [[Asia]], the first [[E...
    7: ... had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco Serrano, Magellan continued his education,...
    9: ... In [[1505]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco de Almeida as a Portuguese [[viceroy]] the...
    15: ...ices to the court of [[Spain]], changing his name from "''Fern㯠de Magalh㥳''" to "''Fernando de Mag...
    18: ...n port of Spain, on [[October 20]], [[1517]], and from there went to [[Valladolid]] to see the teenage...
  13. Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
    5: ...ern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to conquer the ...
    12: ...Yucatán)|Francisco Hernández de Córdoba]] in [[1517]] and [[Juan de Grijalva]] in [[1518]] had return...
    15: ...georgiasouthern.edu/international/pages/SECOLAS/CAFryer.htm]
    18: ...), and a dialect of Nahautl spoken only to and in front of the Mexica/Aztec emperor.
    20: ...ty magistrates he had appointed, all conveniently friends of his.
  14. Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
    45: ...mply as ''the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottom...
    47: ...tantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|&#x130;stanbul]]) 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...
  15. Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
    17: ...ght|220px|The "Luther house" where Luther boarded from ages 14 to 17 while attending private school at...
    19: ...opper]] mine in nearby [[Mansfeld]]. Having risen from the [[peasantry]], his father was determined to...
    28: ...ed the young man needed more work to distract him from excessive [[rumination]]. He ordered the monk t...
    31: ...hteousness, by which humans receive righteousness from God through the perfect works, life, death and ...
    37: ...t the doctrine in question), thereby freeing them from the pains of purgatory.
  16. History of Germany (53864 bytes)
    3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
    5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
    12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
    13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
    15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin...
  17. Manganese (14965 bytes)
    45: ...g point]] </td><td>1517 [[Kelvin|K]] (2271 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])</td></tr>
    55: ... </td><td>121 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1517 K</td></tr>
    108: ...re +2, +3, +4, +6 and +7, though oxidation states from +1 to +7 are observed. Mn<sup>2+</sup> often co...
    119: ...he exceptional hardness of Spartan steels derives from the inadvertent production of an iron-manganese...
    130: ...n 80% of the world's identified resources; South Africa accounts for more than 80% of the total exclus...
  18. First Crusade (34670 bytes)
    2: ...side of [[Europe]]. Both [[knight]]s and peasants from many different nations of [[western Europe]], w...
    5: ...ral, and of the First Crusade in particular, stem from events earlier in the [[Middle Ages]]. The brea...
    7: ...Sardinia]], freeing the coasts of Italy and Spain from [[Muslim]] raids.
    12: ... were politically and, to some extent, culturally fragmented at the time of the First Crusade, which c...
    16: ...rusalem to the Seljuks in 1076, but recaptured it from the Ortoqids in 1098 while the crusaders were o...
  19. Medieval History (23198 bytes)
    2: ...l as the [[Protestant Reformation]] starting in [[1517]]. These various changes all mark the beginning ...
    4: (The corresponding adjective, from the Latin ''medius aevus'', is spelled '''''med...
    8: ...ern European historians. That term has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotyp...
    10: ... lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise o...
    14: ...oon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction between the cult...
  20. Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
    3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
    5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
    12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
    13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
    15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin...

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