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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
77: ...1493]], with 17 ships carrying supplies and about 1200 men to assist in the subjugation of the Taíno an... - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon q...
11: ... fairly soft metallic material that can dissolve only a small concentration of carbon (no more than 0....
21: ...osphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly found elements must be removed from the ore duri...
28: ... the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people of [[Greenland]] began making [[harpoon]]s and other edged to...
36: ...that warfare and mass migrations beginning around 1200 BC disrupted the regional tin trade, forcing a sw... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
9: ...as recognized unanimously as king, as he was the only male available, but the concerns of illegitimacy...
23: ...) and [[Melisende of Lusignan|Melisende]] (born [[1200]]), and one son, Amalric ([[1201]]–1205). K... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...therine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarch]]."
13: ...erine proceeded to "Westernize" Russia. However, unlike [[Peter the Great]], Catherine scorned force a...
25: ...ince Nassau, had 32 larger and 200 smaller ships, 1200 guns, and 14,000 men; the Swedes, commanded by Gu...
33: Catherine subscribed to [[the Enlightenment]] and considered herself a "philosopher... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
2: ...d called [[metaphasic]] chromosomes. This is the only natural context in which individual chromosomes ...
90: <td>~1200</td>
122: ...tive cells) which are [[haploid]] [n] (they have only one set of chromosomes). Gametes are produced by...
185: ...l number of [[unclonable]] gaps. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/] - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
17: ... Romanesque art. The 5th to 7th centuries were mainly a continutation of the late Iron Age [[La Tene]]...
29: ... [[Gothic painting]] did not appear untill around 1200 (this date has many qualifications), when it dive... - Pottery (17136 bytes)
2: ...ttery that is fired at temperatures in the 800 to 1200 [[Celsius|?C]] range, which does not vitrify in t...
4: ..."earthenware" and "stoneware" are generally used only for relatively easily constructed utensils such ...
21: ... in a day. Because of its nature, wheel work can only be used to initially create items with radial sy...
25: ...ly), and allowed to air-dry. This method is commonly used for smaller decorative pieces, such as figu...
32: ...sal or decorative item. This method is most commonly used for handbuilt pieces. Coloured clay can al... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...s known as [[Venus figurines]] have been found mainly in central [[Europe]]. The [[Venus of Willendor...
6: ... stones were used for high quality sculpture and inlays. [[Clay]] was used for pottery and terra cott...
8: ...mong them are a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
22: These are only a few of the many sculptures produced in ancient...
25: ...ean]] civilization covers the time period of 3000-1200 BC, during the [[Bronze Age]], in the area of the... - Silk (8683 bytes)
11: ...ire]] knew of and traded in silk, the secret was only to reach Europe around AD [[550]], via the [[Byz...
25: ... outlast those made of ordinary silk — commonly lasting fifty years or more.
27: ...ore, more comfortable to wear. Nowadays, it is mainly sought after for the highest-quality saris given...
33: ..., ostensibly to discourage [[tobacco]] planting. Only the [[Shakers]] in Kentucky adopted the practice...
40: http://www.islamonline.net/fatwa/english/FatwaDisplay.asp?hFatwaID=61... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
241: *Amenmesse (Menmire) 1203-1200
242: *Seti II (Userkheperure-setepenre) 1200-1194 - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...s '''Suomi.''' In the Swedish language it is '''Finland'''.
4: |+<big>'''Suomen tasavalta'''<br>'''Republiken Finland'''</big>
7: ...nter width=130px| [[Image:Finland_coa.png|100px|Finland: Coat of Arms]]
9: ...|| align=center width=130px| ([[Coat of Arms of Finland|In Detail]])
14: ...9f9;" | [[image:LocationFinland.png|Location of Finland]] - Israel (51605 bytes)
60: ...ism, Christianity, and [[Islam]]. Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of [[History of ancient Israel and ...
89: ...tion of those territories in 1950 was recognized only by the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Pakistan]], whil...
102: ...Palestinian refugee]]s - however, the resolution only refers to "refugees", arguably implying that it ...
104: Israel is the only state that is barred from joining any of the fiv...
156: ...i|Chief Rabbinate]] of Israel, have jurisdiction only in five distinct areas: [[Jewish view of marriag... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
60: ...t in feudal Sudan. Important kingdoms in the next 1200 years include [[Makuria]] and the [[Kingdom of Se...
128: ...ar-related impacts. Here the Sudanese practice mainly indigenous traditional beliefs, although Christi...
181: ...ian.co.uk/sudan/0,14658,1235601,00.html Guardian Unlimited - ''Special Report: Sudan''] - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
59: ...tural]] techniques before it disappeared around [[1200]] A.D., probably because of extended [[drought]]....
158: ...niformly low 10%, with capital equipment charged only 5%. Bolivia's trade deficit was $460 million in ...
178: ...stizo Baroque". The colonial period produced not only the paintings of P鲥z de Holgu� Flores, Bitti... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
7: ...tributed greatly to its adoption as the most commonly used metal. The arrival of iron use in various a...
10: ...y the metallurgy of the time. By [[1600 BC]] to [[1200 BC]], iron was used increasingly in the [[Middle ...
13: ...ory of iron and steelmaking]]), dating to circa [[1200 BC]].
17: Perhaps as early as [[300 BC]], although certainly by [[200|AD 200]], high quality steel was being ...
40: ===Northern Scandinavia and Finland=== - Writing system (16928 bytes)
6: ...ent and adoption of writing systems has occurred only variously. Once established, writing systems on ...
23: ...script]] may have evolved independently, around [[1200 BC]].
43: ...resent different languages. In practice, this is only true for closely related languages, like the dia...
47: ...lement that represents the pronunciation. Some nonlinguists distinguish between [[lexigraphy]] and [[...
49: The most important (and, to a degree, the only surviving) modern logographic writing system is ... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
13: ...ces; 3) The strata of any given area represented only part of the Earth's long history.
23: ...represented. [[Creationist]]s proposed dates of only a few thousand years, while others suggested lar...
154: | style="background:#B189B3" | [[Wenlock epoch|Wenlock]]
199: | style="background:#DDC288" | 1200 <sup>6</sup>
268: # Though commonly used, the [[Hadean]] is not a formal eon and no ... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
39: ...rtation and [[shipbuilding|sea-faring]] followed only centuries later, and later our earliest [[Timeli...
44: ...and malachite beads. Around [[1500 BC|1500]] to [[1200 BC]] Jericho and other cities of [[Canaan]] had b... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
18: ... died before doing so, and Francis was left with only a fifth of that money. Having started with insu...
29: ...of Essex,'' etc. He received a gift of a fine of ?1200 on one of Essex's accomplices.
107: ...t.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/bacon_francis.html Online editions of Bacon's works]
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