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- Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
1: ...] to the [[Renaissance]]. During this millennium, fortifications changed [[Medieval warfare|warfare]], and in tur...
3: === Fortification types ===
5: ...]], a [[camp]] and the logical development of a [[Fortification|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often app...
11: ...The word is a [[medieval]] and later one, derived from the classical [[Latin]] ''post murum'', behind ...
15: ...ences were developed in the [[Netherlands]] and [[France]] but these belong mainly to the post-medieva...
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- Africa (35389 bytes)
1: ...graphic.jpg|thumb|A satellite composite image of Africa]]
3: '''Africa''' is the [[world]]'s second-largest [[contine...
6: ...onAfrica.png|thumb|World map showing location of Africa]]
8: ...ontinent, as the [[Africa (province)|province of Africa]] with its capital [[Carthage]], corresponding...
10: The origin of ''Afer'' may either come from: - Flag of Maryland (3908 bytes)
7: ...It was given to Calvert as a result of storming a fortification in battle (the vertical bars approximate the bars...
34: ...co.uk/world-flags/allflags/us-md.html Information from Flags Of The World]
35: ...anual/01glance/html/symbols/flag.html Information from Maryland State Archives] - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...British possession after France's defeat in the [[French and Indian War]]. For many years, rightful co...
44: ...north to south, is 159 miles. Its greatest width, from east to west, is 89 miles (the narrowest width ...
52: ...particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and climate conditions unique ...
58: ...ing the era Native Americans migrated year-round. From [[1000 BCE]] to [[1600|1600 CE]] was the Woodla...
60: ..., [[1609]], [[French colonization of the Americas|French explorer]] [[Samuel de Champlain]] claimed th... - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...groups in Chinese history|nomadic tribes]] coming from areas now in modern day [[Mongolia]] and [[Manc...
3: ...formidable [[1 E6 m|6,350 km]] (3,946 [[mile]]s), from [[Shanhai Pass]] on the [[Bohai Gulf]] in the e...
12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]] of t...
46: ...uction. Near [[Beijing]] the wall is constructed from [[quarry|quarried]] [[limestone]] blocks. In ot...
48: ...od materials are scarce, the wall was constructed from dirt rammed between rough wood tied together wi... - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
1: ...] to the [[Renaissance]]. During this millennium, fortifications changed [[Medieval warfare|warfare]], and in tur...
3: === Fortification types ===
5: ...]], a [[camp]] and the logical development of a [[Fortification|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often app...
11: ...The word is a [[medieval]] and later one, derived from the classical [[Latin]] ''post murum'', behind ...
15: ...ences were developed in the [[Netherlands]] and [[France]] but these belong mainly to the post-medieva... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...]], a [[camp]] and the logical development of a [[Fortification|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often app...
2: ...expanded into pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15th century, their "castle" designati...
10: ...st and foremost castles were places of protection from an invading enemy, a place of retreat. This can...
11: ...e weapons, built in otherwise hostile territories from which to control surrounding lands.
14: ...nd control of a region. A castle was a stronghold from which a lord or baron could control surrounding... - Gunpowder (1148 bytes)
7: ...t makes it less suitable for shattering rock or [[fortification]]s. However, black powder was, for a few centurie... - Termite (5655 bytes)
27: ...tamorphosis (biology)|metamorphosis]], with their freshly hatched young taking the form of small termi...
29: ...x|Termite Mound, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya Africa. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.co...
35: ...e-disposal chambers, and a well-defended internal fortification containing the queen. - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ...t a time, were generally reluctant to go very far from home, and would often come and go as they saw f...
15: ...f these ever set foot in America. The war was far from Britain's greatest concern at the time. [[Loyal...
19: ...cisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing army at the time is estimated to h...
23: ...lack slaves used the war as a chance to escape to freedom.
31: ...regiment]]s of British regulars (about 4,000 men) from his headquarters in Boston, but the countryside... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
18: ... [[1769]] in [[Tahiti]], where he built a small [[Fortification|fort]] and [[observatory]] to observe the transit...
20: ...ok Strait]], which separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not gues...
26: ..." was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kanga...
30: ... forced his men to eat such foods as [[citrus]] [[fruit]]s and [[sauerkraut]]—under punishment o...
32: ...mand of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began. - Jackson, Mississippi (21073 bytes)
33: ...pi River]], and did not develop like those cities from river commerce. Instead, railroads would later ...
37: ...The Confederate forces in Jackson built defensive fortifications encircling the city while preparing to march wes...
39: ...d along a road near downtown Jackson now known as Fortification Street.
41: ...or less than $8,000. It is said that Sherman, a [[Freemasontry|Mason]], spared it because it housed a ...
45: ...es the harsh and largely terror-filled life most African-Americans experienced in the South (and, it s... - Malta (18511 bytes)
42: |From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[September 21]], ...
69: ...n Maltese language, which appears to have stemmed from an Arabic dialect, though it has been heavily i...
71: ... power: after this they decided to increase the [[fortification]]s, particularly in the Inner-harbour region, whe...
73: ...stigated a blockade of the islands. The isolated French forces, under General [[Claude-Henri Belgrand...
77: ...the first time in history, an event celebrated as Freedom Day. Malta joined the [[European Union]] on ... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
7: ...tween Corinth and [[Corcyra]], preventing Corinth from invading Corcyra at the [[Battle of Sybota]], a...
11: ... Athens drew its immense wealth from tribute paid from these islands. Thus, the two powers were relati...
15: ...ped up from the soil by the thousands of refugees from Attica hiding out in Athens during a siege by t...
23: ...und the Peloponnese. While the Spartans refrained from action themselves, some of their allies began t...
29: ...eir distant allies in [[Sicily]] was under attack from [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. The people of Syr... - Pantheon, Rome (8255 bytes)
3: ...e the [[7th century]] AD. It is the only building from the Greco-Roman world which is completely intac...
15: The building's consecration as a church saved it from the abandonment and spoliation which befell the...
17: ...annon, and that the bronze for the baldachin came from [[Venice]].[http://gnv.fdt.net/~aabbeama/Christ...
21: ...www.beniculturali.it/default.asp?versione=Inglese&from=1] is in charge of the security and maintenance...
26: ...s in diameter). The dome is the largest surviving from antiquity, and was the largest dome in western ... - Moat (2321 bytes)
2: ...pping]], that is to say digging tunnels under the fortifications in order to effect a collapse of the defenses.
4: ...was first applied to the central mound on which a fortification was erected (see [[Motte and bailey]]), and then ...
6: ...ries, though defensive walling required a charter from the king, a moat round a [[manor house]] could ...
8: ...which could potentially form a traversable bridge from one side to another.
10: ... be destroyed if an enemy was about to breach the fortifications. Later [[flying bridge]]s and [[drawbridge]]s ... - 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: ...Empire|Ottoman]] [[sultan|sultans]] constructed a fortification on each side of it, [[Anadoluhisari]] ([[1393]]) ... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ... he drove the western emperor [[Valentinian III]] from his capital at [[Ravenna]] in [[452]].
9: ...n or proto-[[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] nomad tribes from north-eastern [[China]] and [[Central Asia]]. T...
14: ... steppes of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the Danube river to the Baltic Sea]]
15: ...ns. The Huns, satisfied with the treaty, decamped from the empire and departed into the interior of th...
17: ...ations and that the [[bishop]] of Margus (not far from modern Belgrade) had crossed the Danube to rans... - Leone Battista Alberti (5967 bytes)
14: ... 18th century. In it he proposed new methods of [[fortification]] which became the standard defense for towns in ...
18: :From ''The Renaissance'' by Will Durant, pp. 107-108... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...th America and then he would have to head back to France to regain funding. This article covers his tr...
7: ... the [[St. Lawrence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his ...
9: ...ries, Champlain joined another expedition to New France in the spring of [[1604]] led by [[Pierre Dug...
13: ...n landed at the "point of Quebec" and set about [[fortification|fortifying]] the area against attack by building ...
19: ...he men headed back, leaving Champlain with only 2 Frenchmen and 60 natives. - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
15: ...t. The fresco-paintings, ceramic motifs, reliefs, free sculpture and toreutic handiwork of [[Crete]] h...
21: ...e complexity, and the greater oblongs are entered from a long side and divided longitudinally by pilla...
23: ...rom the rest of the plan by corridors, is entered from a vestibule on a short side, and has a central ...
29: ...en records, only a summary history can be derived from monuments and archaeological remains. But the d...
33: ...s, showing a progressive development in technique from bottom to top.
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