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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...cal education|classical learning and knowledge]] through the rediscovery of ancient texts, and a rebir...
10: ...es the need for fitting "The Renaissance" into a chronology that previously held that it was preceded ...
21: ...covery of ancient Roman and Greek Latin heritage through ancient manuscripts and the humanist method o...
30: The first two or three decades of the [[15th century]] saw the emergen...
45: Unfortunately, this fails to fit chronologically. [[1410]] and [[1420]] can be said to... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...g the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christopher Columbus]], [[Vasco da Gama]], [[Pedro ?v...
7: ... late [[Middle Ages]]. While the [[Mongol]]s had threatened Europe with pillage and destruction they a...
9: ...tten up as ''[[Travels]]'' and the work was read throughout Europe.
15: ...at made ships far more manoeuvrable. It was also through the Arabs that [[Ancient Greek geography]] wa...
16: ...ainted c. [[1628]] shows the famous carrack of [[Christopher Columbus]].]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...ical roots in the democratic revolution that overthrew a dictatorial regime in [[1974]] and the subseq...
25: ... with some [[Arab]], mainly expelled after the [[Christian]] reconquest or [[Reconquista]]). In [[868]...
40: ...their own objective, searching for the legendary Christian Kingdom of [[Prester John]].
42: In [[1434]], [[Gil Eanes]] rounded [[Cape Bojador]], south ...
47: ...frica and, despite having no son and heir to the throne, decided to go personnaly into battle, where h... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
10: ...laimed, "It has been left to you to shape a real Christ, whilst I have made a peasant". In this early ...
14: ...d dates the bronze figure of the Baptist for the christening font of [[Orvieto]] Cathedral, which was ...
23: ...cides with Cosimo's. Almost immediately, in May [[1434]], he signed a contract for the marble pulpit on ... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: ...umb|250px|''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]'', painted 1434]]
13: ...ears as a nun in the convent of Maeseyck. At the christening of this child the duke was sponsor, and t...
26: ...with the Pinks", in the Berlin Museum ([[1432]]-[[1434]]), show no relaxation of power; but later creati...
28: ...he [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]] (1434), in which a rare insight into the detail of anim...
30: ...e the Virgin under the protection of St George ([[1434]]). - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737...
19: ...d by the White Guelph [[Dino Compagni]] in his [[Chronicles of Florence]].
23: ...ression, the city came under the sway ([[1382]]-[[1434]]) of the [[Albizzi]] family, bitter rivals of th...
49: The [[Arno river]], which cuts through the old part of the city, is as much a charac...
55: ...r of Piazza della Signoria, a site important for three main reasons: - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
2: [[Image:Heinrich der Seefahrer.jpg|right|200px|Henry the Navigator]]
5: ...ppointment proved important as a source of funds through the [[1440s]].
15: ...me the first European known to pass the cape in [[1434]].
19: ...red as a result, and for most of his last twenty-three years he concentrated on his exploration activi...
21: ...es Cabral]] had discovered [[Brazil]] (1500). [[Christopher Columbus]] also spent some time in and ar... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
30: *[[1981]] - Three workers are killed and five injured during a te...
40: *[[1434]] - [[Ashikaga Yoshikatsu]], Japanese shogun (b. ... - Rome (33048 bytes)
57: ...Rome|founded the city of Rome]]. Two of the last three kings were said to be Etruscan. While the king ...
70: ...ially prestigious and the Empire's conversion to Christianity made the [[Bishop of Rome]] (later calle...
84: ...rol was [[Perugia]], which provided a repeatedly threatened overland link between Rome and Ravenna. In...
90: ...ace III]] ([[607]]) to be "the head of all the [[Christian Church| Churches]]".
104: ...his period Rome became the worldwide centre of [[Christianity]] and increasingly developed a relevant ...
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