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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...revitalization'' of European culture in general. Thus it is possible to speak of the Renaissance in tw...
7: [[Image:Vitruvian.jpg|right|thumb|180px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]]...
17: ...|thumb|250px|right|The [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] church of [[Florence]], [[Italy]]. Florence was the c...
21: ...atin heritage through ancient manuscripts and the humanist method of learning. These new ideas from th...
28: ...llectual movement known as [[humanism|Renaissance humanism]] and with the fiercely independent and com... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
6: [[Image:Al-Idrisi's world map.JPG|200px|thumb|right|This map, made by Arab geographer [[al-Id...
16: [[Image:Eertvelt, Santa Maria.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''The [[Santa Maria (ship)|Santa Mar...
18: ...naging to push a few miles further south and in [[1434]] the obstacle of [[Cape Bojador]] was overcome. ...
26: ...le to trade with the Spanish ships. The islands thus became the focus of colonization efforts. It was...
28: ...nd the [[Spice Islands]] by travelling west, and thus placing them in the Spanish sphere. The expediti... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
17: ...tal, because of their alliance with Rome. [[Viriathus]], the Lusitanian leader, drove the Roman forces...
21: [[Image:Castelo guimaraes2.jpg|thumb|right|230px|The [[10th century|10th-century]] [...
27: ...nty. The city of [[Braga]], the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] center of the Iberian Peninsula, fa...
42: ...(a trading post) for commerce with inland Africa thus, circumventing the Arab [[caravan]]s that crosse...
44: [[image:Get image.jpg|thumb|right|230px|[[Palace of Pena]] in [[Sintra]], o... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
2: [[Image:Donatello_statue.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Statue of Donatello at the [[Uffizi]]]]
10: ...the Guild of Linen-weavers. It aroused public enthusiasm, however, when placed in situ, and at a late...
13: [[Image:Davide (Donatello).jpg|right|thumb|100px|[[Donatello's David]] ]]
14: ...irri. He may have also partially worked on a ''Joshua'' commenced by Ciuffagni in [[1415]]. All these ...
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]]
5: ...family of painters and was a younger brother of [[Hubert van Eyck]].
7: ...colours from [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]. Later on, Hubert admitted him into partnership, and both were ...
9: ..., Jan became his own master, left the workshop of Hubert, and took an engagement as painter to [[John ...
19: ...ad also those parts to look at and to study which Hubert had finished. - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737...
5: [[Image:FlorenceSymbol-giglio.png|thumb|right|127px|"Giglio di Firenze" - symbol of the...
7: [[Image:66360262.JPG|right|thumb|300px|An Overview of Florence (Italian: Firenze...
9: [[Image:Florence_bridges.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The bridges of Florence at sunset from Pi...
23: ...t the Medici were bankers to the pope also didn't hurt. Cosimo was succeeded by his son [[Piero di Cos... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
9: ... of geography and navigation added over time. [[Jehuda Cresques]], a noted cartographer, received an i...
15: ...me the first European known to pass the cape in [[1434]]. - March 19 (9902 bytes)
18: ...[[1944]] - World War II: [[Nazi]] forces occupy [[Hungary]].
30: ...ed and five injured during a test of the [[Space Shuttle Columbia]].
37: *2004 - [[Taiwan]]ese president [[Chen Shui-ban]] is shot just before the country's presiden...
40: *[[1434]] - [[Ashikaga Yoshikatsu]], Japanese shogun (b. ...
89: *[[1263]] - [[Hugh of St Cher]], French cardinal - Rome (33048 bytes)
35: [[Image:Colosseum-2003-07-09.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Colosseum]].]]
36: ...within Rome, is the seat of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the home of the [[Pope]].
48: [[Image:Roman ruins.jpg|thumb|left|''Forum Romanum'']]
70: ...rnal attack - Rome's first city walls for several hundred years were built in about 270, and even thes...
82: ...tine administration in Rome were absorbed by the Church.
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