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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...on]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
11: ...]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...sh Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lassroom Clip Art]]]'''Christopher Columbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] ...
3: ... stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they ...
5: ...hroughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...e isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|...
9: ...[[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...o the ''de-facto'' co-ruler of her husband's dominions. This monarch is known by a variety of other na...
16: ... featured on a U.S. postal stamp, also in celebration of Columbus.
19: As a reaction, Isabella was despised by opposers to Franco.
21: ...t Isabella declared as [[blessed]] and [[canonization|later saint]].
22: ...ewish organizations, [[Liberation Theology|Liberation theologists]] and [[Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustige... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
48: ** [[Fermentation]] to produce [[beer]] in [[Sumeria]]
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]] - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
1: ...:Weyden Deposition.jpg|right|thumb|350px|''Deposition'' by Roger van der Weyden (c.1435) Oil on oak pa...
7: ...] he entered the studio of [[Robert Campin]], previously known as the Master of Flemalle.
15: ...he positions of the major elements in the composition. [[Hans Memling]] was his greatest pupil.
22: * ''[[Last Judgment]]'' ([[1451]]), hospital of [[Beaune]], [[France]]
27: ...mbment of Christ'', [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]], [[London]] - 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... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: ...ing of written materials and an information explosion in [[Renaissance]] Europe.
9: ...sed into wooden blocks with the text and illustrations carved in, was in use in Europe and East Asia l...
14: ...uch more quickly once a single mould had been fashioned. His first efforts enabled him to mass-produce...
23: Subscriptions for most of the copies of the Biblia Sacra were...
31: ...dle Ages|Mediaeval Era]] to the [[Early Modern Period]]. - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ... or at least the region that would become that nation.
4: ...s and is best known as John Cabot for his explorations made under the English flag. Most notably, in ...
6: ...[Genoa]], others [[Gaeta]]. The date was around [[1451]], but he moved to [[Venice]] in his youth, and l...
12: ...cover, and finde, whatsoever iles, countreyes, regions or provinces of the heathen and infidelles, wha...
16: ...ng the years from [[1480]] onwards several expeditions had been sent out to look for [[Hy-Brazil]], an... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra)
25: | '''[[Population]]'''
26: | ''ca'' 40 million
34: | '''[[Fall of the Ottoman Empire|Dissolution]]'''
41: ...The [[Ottoman Flag|flag]] of the later Ottoman period</small> - Bosporus (3180 bytes)
6: ... city of [[Istanbul]] (population at least 11 million) straddles it.
10: ...ail transport|rail]] [[tunnel]] is under construction and expected to be completed in [[2008]]. Approx...
16: ...ter Zeus turned her into an [[ox]] for her protection.
18: ...rian Bosporus'''. Increasing the chances of confusion, they also called a land area near these two str...
20: ...using the waters. including the [[Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits]], s...
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