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  1. Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
    1: ...ine de Pisan - Project Gutenberg eBook 12254.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Christine de Pizan, showing the...
    2: ...ir family's estates and military affairs in their husband's absence and is therefore interpreted as a ...
    4: When she was 24 her husband ɴienne du Castel died, and Pizan became a c...
    9: ...ntment, and died soon after; and when Christine's husband died in [[1389]] she found herself without a...
    11: ...r first ballads were written to the memory of her husband, and as love poems were the fashion she cont...
  2. Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
    33: ...red against everything discovered in the previous 1400 years, it is no contest. (Margolis, 2002; p. 139)
    40: ...the earth would rotate beneath it while it fell, thus causing the stone to land some space away from t...
    42: ... to create a model of the solar system that was a huge improvement over Copernicus' original system. G...
    46: ...d mathematical theories of light as either waves (Huygens) or particles (Newton). Similar developments...
    50: ...t the world of the very small within reach of the human observer, although it would take an additional...
  3. Medieval art (6359 bytes)
    1: ...most famous of the surviving mosaics is in the [[Church of the Holy Wisdom]] in former [[Constantinopl...
    9: ...ire and upon the legacy of the early [[Christian church]]. These sources were mixed with the vigorous ...
    27: ...to natural disasters and the re-appropriation of churches to [[mosques]].
    29: ...(1285), and [[Flamboyant Gothic]] in France (1370-1400).
  4. Jewellery (4234 bytes)
    9: ...inent. Personal [[adornment]] seems to be a basic human tendency.
    31: * [[1400 BC]] - Egypt Amarna period, using [[resin]] and m...
    32: * 1400 BC - Deliberate addition of zinc to copper in [[P...
    33: * 1400 BC - [[Philistine]]s have iron.
    34: * 1400 BC - Very copper rich gold alloys popular in Egyp...
  5. Clavichord (3295 bytes)
    2: [[Image:Clavichord.jpg|thumb|300px|Clavichord]]
    11: ...and [[organ (music)|organ]] from the period circa 1400-1800 can be played on the clavichord; however, it...
  6. Nile (13738 bytes)
    18: [[Image:Nile_boat.jpg|thumbnail|left|East Africa, showing the course of the...
    32: [[Image:Nile_trans.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Composite image|Composite]] satellite i...
    40: [[Image:Lake_Nasser.jpg |left|thumb|The Great Bend of the Nile in Sudan, looking no...
    48: ...imes had failed to determine the river's source, thus yielding classical Hellenistic and Roman represe...
    56: [[Image:Nile_aswan.jpg|left|thumb|250px|View of the Nile from a cruiseboat, betwe...
  7. Slovenia (19318 bytes)
    12: ...guage|Italian]]<sup>1</sup>, [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]<sup>1</sup> |
    47: ...> In the residential municipalities of Italian or Hungarian national community.
    52: ...e southwest, [[Croatia]] to the south and east, [[Hungary]] to the northeast, and [[Austria]] to the n...
    61: ...e lands later formed the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]], with Slovenians inhabiting all o...
    65: With the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in [[1918]], Slovenians joined th...
  8. Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Spinx.jpg|right|140px|thumb|The Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt. Image courtesy...
    3: The '''Great Sphinx of Giza''' is a large half-human [[Sphinx]] statue in [[Egypt]]. Believed by Eg...
    8: [[Image:Spinx_2.jpg|thumb|left|220px|The Great Sphinx.Image provided by [...
    9: ...n profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]].
    11: .... The first attempt to dig it out dates back to [[1400 BC]], when the young [[Tutmosis IV]], falling asl...
  9. Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroo...
    2: [[Image:Ancient Egypt.png|thumb|250px|left|Map of Ancient Egypt]]
    7: [[Image:Giza_ph2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
    15: [[Image:Sakkara_02.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
    34: ... [[Shipbuilding]] (see [[Sahure#History|Pharaoh Sahure: History]], [http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/...
  10. Iron Age (8996 bytes)
    1: ...m Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|thumb|200px|Iron Age Axe found on Gotland]]
    13: ...liest known production of steel occurred around [[1400 BC]] in [[East Africa]] ([http://www.wsu.edu:8080...
    15: ... who adopted it, driving out the stone tool using hunter-gatherer societies they encountered as they e...
    24: ...has tentatively been associated with the [[Zhang Zhung culture]] described in early Tibetan writings.I...
    27: ... from Swedssh Iron age, found at ֬and large.jpg|thumb|200px|Bronze figurine, found at ֬and]]
  11. Sun (20830 bytes)
    128: ...tal speed]] is 217 km/s, i.e. 1 light-year in ca. 1400 years, and 1 AU in 8 days.
    135: [[Image:SunLayers.png|thumb|left|220px|Structure of the Sun]]
    140: ...n itself is opaque to electromagnetic radiation. Humanity's knowledge of the solar interior comes fro...
    145: ... physicists believe may one day provide power for human use, would use a similar process to extract at...
    181: ... neutrinos while en route from the Sun to Earth; thus measurement and theory were reconciled.
  12. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    84: *[[Ludolf Bakhuysen]] ([[1631]]-[[1708]])
    89: *[[Balthus]] ([[1908]]-[[2001]])
    128: *[[Jacopo Bellini]] (ca.[[1400]]-[[1470]])
    187: *[[Arthur Boyd]] ([[1920]]-[[1999]])
    264: *[[Frederick Edwin Church]] ([[1826]]-[[1900]])
  13. Silk Road (23757 bytes)
    23: ...ptians are returning with huge [[cedar]] trees. Sahure's name is found stamped on a thin piece of gold...
    25: ...-Bahri]]. Several of her successors, including [[Thutmoses III]], also organized expeditions to Punt.
    38: ...lexandria Eschate]] "Alexandria The Furthest", [[Khujand]] (also called Khozdent or Khojent - formely ...
    43: ...lue on the rich produce of China&#8221; ''Hou Hanshu'' ([[Later Han History]]).
    45: ...r, and at the least five or six.&#8221; ''Hou Hanshu'' (Later Han History).
  14. Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
    18: | Justinian builds the church of [[Hagia Sophia]] (&#913;&#947;&#943;&#945; ...
    32: | The Church in Rome breaks with the Church in Constantinople.
    46: ...r, [[Romulus Augustus]], was forced to abdicate, thus leaving to the emperor in the Greek East sole im...
    67: [[Image:Tetrarch_system.PNG|thumb|200px|frame|right|Map of Roman empire after Dio...
    79: [[Image:Byzantium550.png|thumb|300px|right|Map of the Byzantine Empire around ...
  15. Medieval music (31843 bytes)
    2: [[Image:Medieval_musicians4.jpg|thumb|200px|Medieval Musicians. Image provided by [ht...
    18: [[Image:Lute_guitar.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Lute Guitar. Image provided by [http...
    19: ...ible the free and quite complex music of the next hundred years. In some ways the modern system of rhy...
    25: ...anting. The eastern traditions of the Byzantine Church were also an influence.
    29: Around 1011 AD, the Catholic Church wanted to standardize the Mass and chant. At ...
  16. Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
    15: ...ring a specific period in Earth history. It was thus possible to speak of a "Tertiary Period" as well...
    46: ...stocene megafauna]]); Evolution of fully modern [[human]]s
    203: | style="background:#DDC288" | 1400 <sup>6</sup>
    219: ...n="2" | [[Bushveld|Bushveld Formation]] formed. [[Huronian]] glaciation.
  17. Illinois (27007 bytes)
    45: ...le, Illinois]]. That civilization vanished circa 1400-1500 for unknown reasons. The next major power i...
    53: ...as a [[canal]] port after [[1848]], and as a rail hub soon afterward. By 1857, Chicago was Illinois' l...
    59: [[Image:Ilolluds.jpg|thumb|right|The sample version of the current [[Illin...
    119: [[Image:National-atlas-illinois.png|thumb|300px|right|Illinois, showing major cities and ...
    120: ...Image:Chicago-Illinois-USA-skyline-day.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Chicago]]
  18. Crossbow (7510 bytes)
    18: ...own to have been used on crossbows from the early 1400s. [[Leonardo da Vinci]] designed many complicated...
    25: [[Image:ChineseCrossbow.JPG|thumb|200px|Remains of an ancient Chinese crossbow, [...
    26: ... as late as China-Japan war of 1894-1895 by [[Manchurian]] troops. [[Roman Empire|Roman]] bows tended ...
    30: [[Image:Crossbow3.png|thumb|200px|A winching crossbow.]]
    32: ...ore uniform, except in very cold weather. About [[1400]] the use of the crossbow changed, with the butt ...
  19. Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
    1: [[Image:BruegelPortrait.jpg|right|thumb|Bruegel's ''The Painter and The Connoisseur'' d...
    14: [[Image:Bruegel Proverbs.jpg|thumb|300px|Bruegel's ''Netherlandish Proverbs'', [[1...
    15: [[Image:Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Tower of Babel'' [[1563]], oil on b...
    16: ... brueghel the elder-children playing-detail.jpeg|thumb|250px|A detail of ''Children Playing'']]
    17: [[Image:Bruegel_peasant_wedding_dsc01965.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Peasant Wedding'' [[1568]]]]
  20. Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Weyden Deposition.jpg|right|thumb|350px|''Deposition'' by Roger van der Weyden (c...
    3: ...s Roger de la Pasture, Rogier de Bruxelles, (c. [[1400]] - [[June 18]], [[1464]]) was a [[Flanders|Flemi...
    13: [[Image:04philip.jpg|thumb|250px|Philip the Good, painted c. 1450 by Roger...
    37: [[Image:Weyden Ivo.jpg|thumb|250px|''St Ivo'' (c.1450) Oil on oak panel, 45 ...

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