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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]] - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...]], or more specifically, the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited a...
5: ...ily of mariners and improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a l...
9: ...one of the most conscientious explorers of the period.
17: ...s the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault, a location where the [[Jacques Cartier Bridge]] now stands....
19: ...nd the winter of 1535-1536 in Canada but the decision must have been made by his arrival in Stadacona ... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...she is often known as '''Bloody Mary'''. Her religious policies, however, were in many cases reversed ...
13: ...ince of Wales]], sometimes leading to false assertions that she was created Princess of Wales, even th...
15: ...]. A great part of the credit of her early education was undoubtedly due to her mother, who not only ...
19: ...man Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to the Pope we...
21: ...ng a mere "Lady". Her place in the line of succession was transferred to the Princess Elizabeth (daugh... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
4: ... [[palaeography]]. The study of permanent inscriptions engraved in metal or chiselled into stone and t...
8: ...gh it uses Chinese words as its vehicle of expression, one does not have to know Chinese to appreciate...
14: ...struction is still common in Japanese lower education.
48: ...form enables the student to appreciate the proportions of each part of the character as well as each c...
50: Grass script is notorious for its economy of individual penstrokes. Quite... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ...[[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...6]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
17: ...[[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
31: *[[Aetion]] ([[4th century BC]]) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: Watercolor painting began with the invention of [[paper]] in [[China]] shortly after [[100 AD...
12: ...issance]] painter [[Raffaello Santi]] ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), who painted full-scale cartoons as precursors...
14:
21: ...ercolor on cardboard, 104 x 74 cm, private collection.]]
23: ...term ''watercolor'' most often to refers to traditional transparent watercolor or [[gouache]] (an opaq... - March (3907 bytes)
4: ...llation of [[Aquarius]] and ends in the constellation of [[Pisces]].
8: ...45 BCE began the year on [[January]] 1. The tradition of starting the year in March continued in some ...
10: ...ellenic civilization]], March was called Anthesterion. In [[Japanese calendar|old Japanese calendar]],...
18: ... of [[Gustav I of Sweden|Gustav Vasa]]'s run in [[1520]].
19: ...dividuals who struggled to end tyranny and oppression. See [http://www.harriettubman.com/] and [http:... - Raphael (3466 bytes)
1: [[Image:Sanzio 00.jpg|framed|right|self-portrait]]
2: ...lo Santi, Raffaello de Urbino''' or '''Rafael Sanzio de Urbino'''.
4: His life was described in [[Giorgio Vasari]]'s ''Vite.'' Born in [[Urbino]], he studi...
7: [[Image:Sanzio 01.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''[[Raphael Rooms|The Sc...
8: ... Rooms|The School of Athens]]'' and the ''Disputation on the Blessed Sacrament,'' two large, arch-shap... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
7: [[Image:Firenze.PalVecchio.Machiavelli.JPG|thumb|200px|Bust of Machiavelli]]
10: ...gely occupied with events arising out of the ambitions of [[Pope Alexander VI]] and his son, [[Cesare ...
17: ...tate, most notably those of [[Jean Bodin]] and [[Giovanni Botero]].
21: ...uted to him but this was essentially NOT his position. And that is the whole point with Modern politic...
23: ...all means potentially necessary"'''! '''Justification''' with the [[Jesuits]] is essentially a '''mora... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...abaptist]]s. It also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]] within the Roman Catholic Church.
3: == Roots of the Reformation ==
9: == Reformation begins ==
16: * Reformation in [[France]] -- [[Huguenot]]s, [[Pierre Viret]]
20: ... the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Renaissance]] church. - Nubia (8928 bytes)
1: Today '''Nubia''' is the region in the south of [[Egypt]], along the [[Nile]] an...
5: ...ian language|Old Nubian]] was used in mostly religious texts dating from the 8th and 9th centuries AD....
9: ...tures in Nubia were those found throughout the region, first the [[Badarian]] culture, then the [[Amra...
11: ...rtain, but it was perhaps caused by Egyptian invasions and pillaging that began at this time.
13: ...240 BC to c. 2150 BC, were another internal evolution or invaders. There are definite similarities be... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...go and developed into the [[Indus Valley Civilization]], which peaked between the [[26th century BC|26...
8: ...nwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period referred to as India's "Golden Age".
11: ...echnology|engineering]], [[Religion in India|religion]], and [[Indian philosophy|philosophy]] flourish...
14: ...13th century AD, followed almost without intermission by the [[Vijayanagara Empire]], which declined w...
20: ...[[British East India Company]]. A failed insurrection in [[1857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutin... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...d an expedition for the purpose of [[circumnavigation|circumnavigating]] the [[globe]]. Though Magella...
5: ...Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, and his ...
7: ...n Francisco Serrano, Magellan continued his education, becoming interested in [[geography]] and [[astr...
11: ...after secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was forced to return to...
13: ...g Manuel I]], who refused to raise Magellan's pension. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
30: *[[Giorgio Agamben]]
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{...
97: *[[Ariston of Chios]], (fl. 250 BC){{fn|R}}
131: *[[Alain Badiou]], (born 1937)
170: *[[Vissarion Belinsky]], (1811-1848){{fn|R}} - 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> - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
2: {{Infobox_Biography |
5: image_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529...
12: ...s undoubtedly impacted upon the [[Counter-Reformation]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]].
14: ...lerical marriage]] within several Christian traditions.
26: ...rayer]] and [[pilgrimage]], and constant [[confession]]. The more he tried to do for God, it seemed, t... - Argon (6952 bytes)
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20: {{Elementbox_ionizationenergies4 | 1520.6 | 2665.8 | 3931 }} - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ...go and developed into the [[Indus Valley Civilization]], which peaked between the [[26th century BC|26...
8: ...nwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period referred to as India's "Golden Age".
11: ...echnology|engineering]], [[Religion in India|religion]], and [[Indian philosophy|philosophy]] flourish...
14: ...13th century AD, followed almost without intermission by the [[Vijayanagara Empire]], which declined w...
20: ...[[British East India Company]]. A failed insurrection in [[1857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutin... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...[[539 BC]], with a preceding [[Proto-Elamite]] period beginning around [[3200 BC]].
8: ...tes this word was borrowed prehistorically). Additionally, the Haltamti were known as ''Elam'' in the ...
10: ... empire, the Elamites had extended their civilisation into the province of [[Fars]] in prehistoric tim...
13: ... by some theorists with the [[Harappan]] civilisation found in the Indus Valley somewhat to the East, ...
17: ...g bull holding a spouted vessel, Proto-Elamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan M... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ...ed States|Southwestern]] [[United States]] expeditionary logs as a slave servant in the Spanish explor...
5: ...tholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]. He was sold in 1520 to Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, a [[Spanish nobi...
8: ...a]], and through the [[Sonoran Desert]] to the region of [[Sinaloa]] in [[New Spain]] (present-day [[M...
13: ...storians, however, the eye-witness accounts of various associates, and the lack of references to Estev...
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