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- Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ...ken to prison, where he dictated the book ''Il Milione'' about his travels.
5: ...rco. His father and his uncle Maffeo (also ''Maffio'') were prosperous merchants in the East trade. T...
7: ...a'') in the [[Adriatic Sea]]. It is considered dubious as there is some factual evidence supporting th...
13: ...nd with numerous achievements of Chinese civilization, many of which were more advanced than similar c...
15: ==''Il Milione''== - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...g of a French [[civil war]] as much as an international conflict, the historian Philippe de Vries sugg...
5: ...verall key developments in the early growth of nations and new monarchies. It is often viewed as one o...
10: ...retaking it. The war was both a "[[Nationalism|national]]" desire to re-take a former kingdom, and per...
15: ...[[Charles IV of France|Charles IV]], without question.
17: ...Another effect of the war was to galvanize opposition to Edward II among the English lords of Aquitain... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...s the capital of the region of [[Veneto]], population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). The city s...
6: ...]], [[Pisa]], and [[Amalfi]]). Its strategic position at head of the Adriatic made Venetian naval and ...
8: ...laid: the [[Venetian Arsenal]] was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of the [[Brenner...
10: ...a]] and Duke of [[Istria]]. Later mainland possessions, which extended across [[Lake Garda]] as far we...
12: ...nice, including the [[Mark the Evangelist|Winged Lion of St. Mark]], symbol of Venice. Only Venetian s... - Padua (12961 bytes)
1: ...ong a section of the "inland waterway" or ''naviglio interno'' of Padua]]
2: ...es crossing the various branches of the [[Bacchiglione]], which once surrounded the ancient walls like...
4: Padua was where most of the action in [[Shakespeare]]'s play, ''[[The Taming of the...
7: ...the Venetian architects who undertook the restoration removed them, throwing all three spaces into one...
9: ...1526]]), and close by is the [[Palazzo del Capitanio]], the residence of the Venetian governors, with ...
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