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- Paraguay (10959 bytes)
1: ...]. Lying on both banks of the [[Paraguay River]], it borders [[Argentina]] to the south and southwest,...
19: | '''[[Capital]]'''
28: ...(07/[[2004]])<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
52: ...ependence by overthrowing the local Spanish authorities on [[May 15]], [[1811]].
54: ...despread corruption and lack of any democratic political culture. - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
1: ...dered one of the major political writers of the [[Italian Renaissance]].
3: ...achiavelli's ''[[Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio]]''. In these as well as his ''Maxims'' ('...
15: ...Discorsi" del Machiavelli sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio'' (1528)
18: * ''Storia d'Italia'' (1537-1540) - 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 ... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...g of maps. He wrote the first instruction book of italic script to be published in northern [[Europe]]...
12: ...used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of longitude to aid navigation by sea, as compass courses c...
17: ...um in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and work.
22: ...phical Meditations on the Frame for the World and its Form) by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Less... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...([[1865]]-[[1871]]) the capital of the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [...
3: ...s famous for its wealth of fine [[art]] and [[architecture]].
5: ...|right|127px|"Giglio di Firenze" - symbol of the city]]
7: ...62.JPG|right|thumb|300px|An Overview of Florence (Italian: Firenze)]]
17: ...round the beginning of the 4th century A.D., the city experienced subsequent periods of [[Byzantine]],... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ... through the southeast and midwest of today's [[United States|USA]].
5: ... became commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discov...
6: ... extreme brutality and ruthlessness when dealing with natives. In a conflict for supremacy in Nicaragu...
7: In [[1528]] de Soto led his own expedition along the coast of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find...
11: ...fter Atahualpa had been arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two m... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
5: ...ut later escaped and eventually reached [[Mexico City]].
7: ... expedition. He declined to travel with the expedition as second in command and jealously refused to ...
9: ...earlier ''La Relación'' and published under the title ''Comentarios'' (Commentary).
13: ...ount of the fate of the Pánfilo de Narváez expedition.
15: He was the lead leader with the Golden Hind, which is the name of the ship t... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ...n his influential treatise, ''Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva''.
3: ...ce from 1527 to 1540 but left little mark on the city.
4: ...hFacade.jpg|thumb|right|Serlio's church facade of 1537 crystallized a format that lasted into the 18th c...
6: ...but Serlio's woodcut put the concept in every architect's hands.
8: ...bleau|Chⴥau of Fontainebleau]], where a team of Italian designers and craftsmen were assembled. Serl... - Germanium (8776 bytes)
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26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
30: | align="center" | greyish white<br>[[Image:Ge,32.jpg|125px|]]
35: | 72.64 [[Atomic mass unit|amu]]
64: | 1211.4 [[Kelvin|K]] (1720.9 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]]) - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...en revised since Linnaeus to improve consistency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[...
7: ... Arabic. His original commentary is now lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survi...
9: ...Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life known at the time.
11: ...ists, such as [[Hieronymus Fabricius|Fabricius]] (1537–1619), [[Petrus Severinus]] (1580–165...
13: ...and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
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