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- Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
7: ...tes or even several whole chronologies as possibilities. Consequently, there may be discrepancies betw...
9: It should be noted that there is a 60 year discrepan...
15: ...Predynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic...
17: * The dates of Dynasties 11 to 20 are from Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relati...
18: * The dates of Dynasties 21 to 26 are from Kitchen, ''Third Intermediate Period in Egypt'' (1973... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...'s coast until becoming part of the mainland in [[1525]].
23: | '''[[Capital]]'''<br><br> - Population:<br> - [[Co...
35: ...bsp;- Total: <br> - [[Population density|Density]]:|| [[List of countries by population|Ranked 34...
60: ... most notably [[Numidia]], and seized the opportunity offered by the Punic Wars to become independent ...
62: ...] started attacking and taking over many coastal cities, prompting some to seek help from the [[Ottoma... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
2: ...ocked]] [[country]] in central [[South America]]. It is bordered by [[Brazil]] on the north and east, ...
16: capital = [[La Paz]], [[Sucre]]<sup>1</sup> |
19: leader_titles = [[President of Bolivia|President]] |
21: largest_city = [[La Paz]] |
24: area_magnitude = 1 E12 | - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - January 17 (12233 bytes)
6: ...[Vote of No Address]], breaking off negotiations with [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] and ther...
7: ...ful campaign to recover the throne for the [[Jacobite]] dynasty.
9: ...nder Brigadier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tar...
11: * [[1852]] - [[United Kingdom]] recognizes the independence of the [[...
12: ...] - [[First Battle of the Stronghold]] in the [[United States|US]] [[Modoc War]]. - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...eur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
3: ...cords that he was born in Broghel near Breda, but it is unsure whether the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] town ...
5: ...painters' guild of [[Antwerp]]. He travelled to [[Italy]] soon after, and then returned to Antwerp bef...
7: ...they were still infants when their father died; neither received any training from him.
9: ...peasant]]s, painted in a simpler style than the [[Italianate]] art that prevailed at the time. The mos... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: [[Image:Thomas More.png|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]...
2: ...he [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and politicians.
5: ..., where he studied law with his father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]]...
9: ... previous husband. More provided his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when ...
11: ==Early political career== - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...iavelli was also a key figure in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial to European statecraft duri...
10: ...argely occupied with events arising out of the ambitions of [[Pope Alexander VI]] and his son, [[Cesar...
12: ...rea in Percussina]], where he devoted himself to literature. He died in Florence in [[1527]] and his r...
15: ...n its Index – a list of books against the faith.
17: ...emporaries, often used in the introductions of political tracts of the sixteenth century that offered ... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...t]]s. It also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]] within the Roman Catholic Church.
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schism|G...
20: ...wealth and power of the [[elite]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to the financial and moral co...
22: ...ional restrictions on the exercise of their authority. In [[England]], [[France]], and [[Spain]] the m...
24: ...e to exclude [[peasant]]s from [[common land]]s. With trade stimulated, landowners increasingly moved ... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...s of monastic or semi-monastic schools. He was admitted to the [[priesthood]] and took [[monk|monasti...
8: ...dge]], he was [[Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity]], and had the option of spending the rest of hi...
10: ...t from this he had a less active association with Italian scholars than might have been expected.
12: ...eat publisher [[Froben]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe.
14: ... men of the highest importance in the world of politics and of thought, and his advice on all kinds of... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: The '''Hittites''' is the conventional English-language term fo...
3: ...te polity disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived until around 700 ...
5: ...om the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd ...
7: ...ered the Anatolian Hittites in the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but...
9: ...r their skill in building and using [[Chariot#Hittite|chariot]]s. - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ... [[Pacific Ocean]], and the first to lead an expedition for the purpose of [[circumnavigation|circumna...
5: ...agalh㥳, the mayor of the town, and Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de...
7: ...ere his brother had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco Serrano, Magellan continued...
9: ...eida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tanzania]].
11: ...n]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was force... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ...mpire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to ...
7: ...choice between seeking fame and glory in a war in Italy, or trying his luck in the Spanish colonies of...
12: ...ter said. Thus warned, Cortés organized his expedition and set sail on the morning of [[January 18]],...
15: ... to say, in his narrative Cortés manipulates reality in order to achieve his overarching purpose of g...
18: ...slavery, though he proved less and less useful as it became apparent that Marina was trilingual: she s... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ...and [[exploration|explorer]] who is popularly credited as the modern discoverer of [[Canada]], or at l...
6: ...nice]] in his youth, and later became a Venetian citizen.
10: ...e]] to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes.
12: ...nd of the North, under our banners and ensignes, with five ships ... and as many mariners or men as th...
16: ...ring the years from [[1480]] onwards several expeditions had been sent out to look for [[Hy-Brazil]], ... - Demographics of Estonia (4738 bytes)
1: ...l]] research supports the existence of human activity in the region as early as 8,000 BC, but by 3,500...
3: ...age 16. The first book in Estonian was printed in 1525.
5: ...xes to root words. The oldest known examples of written Estonian originate in 13th century chronicles....
7: ...ethnic Russians and the removal of the Russian military bases in 1994 caused the proportion of ethnic ...
9: ...a whole, it is multicultural, but geographically, it is largely homogenous. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}} - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ...n the formation of new traditions within Christianity and his teachings undoubtedly impacted upon the ...
14: ...[clerical marriage]] within several Christian traditions.
21: ... Martin enrolled in the law school of that university.
25: ==Luther's struggle to find peace with God==
26: ... [[confession]]. The more he tried to do for God, it seemed, the more aware he became of his sinfulnes... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
1: {{Italian History box}}
2: This is the '''[[history of Italy]] during foreign domination and the unificatio...
6: ...cy lost much of its importance both because of military defeats and of [[Protestant Reformation]], whi...
8: ...Spanish rivalries would present themselves in the Italian peninsula
10: ...so II]] starts the Spanish acquisition of Naples with the help of a Ventian fleet and troops under the... - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
2: [[image:Qalibaf-isfahan.jpg|right|thumb|A traditional rug weaver in Isfahan. See special page on [...
5: ... either in the hunt or feasting scenes. The majority of these carpets are [[wool]], but several [[sil...
8: With the passage of time, the materials used in carpe...
12: ...weavings of the Seljuks of [[Asia Minor]] on exhibit in Ala?edin Mosque in [[Konya]] and Ashrafoghlu M...
14: ...yk Valley, in [[Altai Mountains]] in [[Siberia]]. It was discovered in the grave of a [[Scythia]]n pri... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...in|Spanish]] ''[[conquistador]]'' who led an expedition that caused the [[conquest of the Aztec Empire...
4: ... to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully but embittered.
6: ...scriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
14: ...mpire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to ...
16: ...as to the nature of Cortés' studies, his later writings and actions suggest he studied [[Law]] and pr...
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