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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...e use of the variant spelling ''M骩co'', see section [[#The name|The name]] below) is a [[country]] l...
14: image_map = LocationMexico.png |
15: national_motto =''Sufragio efectivo, No reelecci
16: ...nguage|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]''... - 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]] - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: ...|right|250px|Christine de Pizan, showing the interior of an apartment at the end of the 14th or commen...
2: ... the norm for centuries rather than Pizan's invention.
4: ...d, and Pizan became a court writer employed by various ducal and Royal households, in order to support...
5: ...of Ladies]]'', written in [[1405]], and its companion, [[The Book of the Three Virtues]]. She also wro...
7: ==Biography== - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...h Africa. It includes the major art movements, national art, genres, revivals, the artists crafts, and...
5: ...e art]] and [[Islamic art]]. In addition each "nation" or culture in the Middle Ages had its own disti...
13: ... based on about nine large-scale movements, or periods.
15: ...the production of art in the East. During this period Christian artists adopted the Roman crafts of pa...
17: ...en finally late in the period some Viking inspirations were added in Ireland. - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: '''Juan Ponce de León''' (c. 1460 – July 1521) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]]. Juan P...
4: ...s to work in the mines and to construct fortifications. The Tainos subsequently died in great numbers ...
9: ...eral de los hechos de los Castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]].
12: ...meaning ''flowery'', either because of the vegetation in bloom he saw there, or because he landed ther...
16: ... he returned to Puerto Rico where he stayed until 1521. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ...[[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...6]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ...[[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
31: *[[Aetion]] ([[4th century BC]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] con...
16: *1520s-Spanish begin conquest of [[Maya civilization]]
17: *[[1521]]-Cortes destroys the Aztec empire
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France]], expl...
19: ...River]], strengthening Spanish claims to the interior of North America - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...opean composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is...
6: ...fter the murder of Duke Sforza, he left this position, going to work for the Duke's brother instead. ...
10: ...archers. He remained at Cond頵ntil his death in 1521.
14: ...examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; and his fame was only eclipsed after the beginn...
16: ...icantly, and was also able to express intense emotion with economy of means. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...ch]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and [[me...
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[2...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 Septe...
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 Octob...
85: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[11 Janua... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: '''Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[1478]...
4: <tr><td>[[Image:Castiglione.jpg]]</td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Baldassare Castiglione'''</td></tr>
8: ...], a relative of Luigia Gonzaga, mother of Castiglione.
10: ...a he travelled quite often; during one of his missions to [[Rome]], he met [[Guidubaldo da Montefeltro... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...]] as a [[treason|traitor]]. More was [[canonization|canonized]] in [[1935]] by the [[Roman Catholic ...
7: ...earing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [[flagellation]].
9: ...d his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually reserve...
12: ...], More was knighted and made undertreasurer in [[1521]]. As secretary and personal advisor to King Hen...
14: ... chancellor of the [[Duchy of Lancaster]], a position that entailed administrative and judicial contro... - 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 ==
11: * ''[[Exsurge Domine]]'', [[Diet of Worms]] ([[1521]]), [[Peasants' War]]
16: * Reformation in [[France]] -- [[Huguenot]]s, [[Pierre Viret]] - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...s a [[borderless country|borderless]] [[island nation]] in the [[Persian Gulf]] ([[Southwest Asia]]/[[...
16: | align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: [[Bahrainona]] بحر&...
18: ...colspan=2 style="background:#fff;" | [[image:LocationBahrain.png]]
34: | '''[[Population]]'''
36: <br /> - [[Population density|Density]] - 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. - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
10: ...til 1506. He took part in the conquest of [[Hispaniola]] and [[Cuba]] and was granted a large estate o...
12: ...r said. Thus warned, Cortés organized his expedition and set sail on the morning of [[January 18]], [...
14: ==Cartas de Relacion==
15: ...s." [http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/international/pages/SECOLAS/CAFryer.htm]
20: Cortés landed his party in a location he named La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, now know... - Sweden (27111 bytes)
1: ...of Bothnia]] on the east. Sweden has a low population density in all but its [[Metropolitan Areas of ...
3: ... has been [[Christian]]. After the allegedly notorious [[Vikings]], Sweden spent a couple of centuries...
5: ...day defined by liberal tendencies and a strong national quest for equality.
16: national_motto = none<sup>1</sup> |
17: image_map = LocationSweden.png | - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
7: ...cactus. The Aztecs eventually came across this vision on what was then a small swampy island in Lake T...
11: ...terlaced with a series of canals, so that all sections of the city could be visited either on foot or ...
15: ...nople]]. The most common estimates put the population at around 200,000 to 300,000 people. [[Aztec]] r...
17: ...eventually conquered the city on [[August 13]], [[1521]], after a struggle that lasted months in which m... - 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... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
3: == Foundation and early history ==
5: ...]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permission by the [[Caliph]] Haroun el Raschid of [[Egypt]]...
9: ...]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], subdivided into [[bailiwick]]s, which in t...
15: ... eventually pushed the Knights out of their traditional holdings in Jerusalem. After the fall of the K...
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