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  1. Eudocia Macrembolitissa (2682 bytes)
    13: ...e Empresses: Woman and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204''. Routledge, 1999.
  2. Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
    9: ...1169]]), and [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]] ([[1121]]-[[1204]]). Melisende's authority was not passed over for...
    21: ...his was reason enough for the queen's party to openly challenge Fulk, as Fulk's unfounded assertions o...
    45: ...onsibility in governance. Melisende had hitherto only partially associated Baldwin in her rule. Tensio...
  3. Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
    3: ..., [[France]], c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]], [[1204]] in [[Fontevrault]], [[Anjou]]) was one of the w...
    28: ...ltar of the church in [[1170]]. This aroused not only Eleanor's horror and contempt, but most of Europ...
    40: Eleanor died in [[1204]] and was entombed in [[Fontevraud Abbey]] near h...
  4. Greece (54754 bytes)
    23: ...Minister]]''' || [[Costas Caramanlis|K󳴡s Karamanl�]
    50: ...e east. The [[Aegean Sea]] lies to the east of mainland Greece while the [[Ionian Sea]] lies to the we...
    57:
    59: ...]] {{lang|he|יוון}} ({{lang|he|Yavan}}). In only a few languages is the "Hellas" root the basis o...
    80: ... not to last: During the Crusading epochs between 1204 to 1458, Greece was overrun by warrings Byzantine...
  5. Crusade (28507 bytes)
    25: ...tian war against Muslim conquests, it is not the only such example. The [[Normans|Norman]] adventurer ...
    28: ... both Arabs (in Sicily) and Byzantines (on the mainland). A Latin hegemony in the Levant would provide...
    34: ...n the rampages of the sack of Constantinople in [[1204]].
    41: ...ut also in Spain and central Europe, against not only Muslims, but also Christian heretics and persona...
    61: ...d outbreaks of violence, the city was sacked in [[1204]]. The popular spirit of the movement was now dea...
  6. Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
    37: | [[1204]]
    59: ...ear the borderlands, the [[Armenians]] being the only sizeable one.
    78: ...he western half of the empire, but at best could only demand tribute from the eastern half. [[Theodosi...
    84: ... in [[751]], leaving the Byzantines with control only of small areas around the toe and heel of Italy.
    104: ...ly in 1071, and the [[Seljuk Turks]], who were mainly interested in defeating [[Egypt]] under the [[Fa...
  7. Castle (27805 bytes)
    8: Castles were built not only as a defensive measure, and offensive weapon, bu...
    46: ...ayeux Tapestry]], and was then familiar on the mainland of western [[Europe]].
    52: ...where they found a natural rock stronghold which only needed adaptation, as at Clifford, Ludlow, the P...
    55: ...of which defied the [[battering ram]], and could only be undermined at the cost of much time and labou...
    59: ...ame merely the last refuge of the garrison, used only when all else had been captured. Indeed the keep...
  8. Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
    9: ... word ''princeps'', meaning "first citizen", the only title Augustus would permit himself) the realiti...
    35: ...k covered all of Roman history through [[9 BC]], only [[epitome]]s survive of his coverage of the Late...
    46: ...ion of the ''gens'' [[Claudius (gens)|Claudia]], only slightly less ancient than the Julians. Their t...
    56: ... commander of the guard [[Cassius Chaerea]]. The only member left of the imperial family to take charg...
    78: ... excesses and the civil wars. To do this, he not only increased taxes, but created new forms of taxati...
  9. Venice (22017 bytes)
    10: ...dship of its mainland territories was relatively enlightened and the citizens of such towns as [[Berga...
    12: ...ist|Winged Lion of St. Mark]], symbol of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the m...
    14: ...self. The ''[[Cavalieri di San Marco]]'' was the only order of [[chivalry]] ever instituted in Venice,...
    35: Early in the [[15th century]], as new mainland territories were expanded, the first standing ...
    37: ... often experienced. A civilian commissioner (not unlike a [[commissar]]) accompanied each army to keep...
  10. Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
    7: ...ly collapsed. Of the former Great Seljuk Empire, only the [[Sultanate of Rüm]] in [[Anatolia]] re...
    73: ...Rüm|Süleyman II]] (Suleiman) [[1196]]-[[1204]]
    74: * [[Kilij Arslan III]] [[1204]]-[[1205]]
  11. Parthenon (12682 bytes)
    17: [[image:ac.parthenon4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Only a few sculptures remain on the Parthenon.]]
    19: ...es both internally and externally. These survive only in part, but there are good descriptions of most...
    27: ...sack of the city during the [[Fourth Crusade]] in 1204.
    50: ...some scholars have argued that the Parthenon was only ''used'' as a treasury. While this opinion was f...
  12. Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
    32: ...px|thumb|left|The arrow points to the city of [[Sanl?de Barrameda]] on the delta of the [[Guadalquivir...
    34: ...but on [[September 20]], Magellan set sail from Sanl?de Barrameda with 270 men.
    41: ... ship captains broke out. It was unsuccessful, mainly because the crew remained loyal. Quesada and Men...
    47: ...sage, because the waters were [[brine]] and deep inland. Four ships began an arduous passage through t...
    55: ...st who paid to be on the Magellan voyage, is the only extant eyewitness account of Magellan's death. ...
  13. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    214: *[[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius]], (AD 480-524 or 525){{fn|...
    313: *[[Stanley Cavell]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    859: *[[William Stanley Jevons]], (1835-1882){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}
    1059: ...monides|Moses Maimonides]] (or ''Rambam''), (1135-1204){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    1061: *[[Philipp Mainl䮤er]]
  14. Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
    32: ...imperial ceremonies. During the Latin Occupation (1204-1261) the church became a Roman Catholic cathedra...
    49: *[http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/sophia.html Very brief illustrated report...
  15. Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
    1: '''Byzantine art''' is the term commonly used to describe the artistic products of the [[...
    17: ..., and this became the norm of Byzantine art. The only real exception to this was portraits of the Empe...
    21: In any case, it was only in some areas, principally sculpture, that the B...
    41: ...antine culture were brought to an abrupt end in [[1204]] with the sacking of Constantinople by the knigh...
  16. Constantinople (4125 bytes)
    3: ...h culturally and economically. [[Bezants]], the only gold coin minted in Europe until the 13th centur...
    7: ...aptured and sacked by the [[Fourth Crusade]] in [[1204]] (April 12), and then re-captured by [[Nicaean E...
  17. Praseodymium (9138 bytes)
    62: | 1204 [[Kelvin|K]] (1707.8 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
    206: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/59.html Los Alamos National Laborato...
  18. List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
    107: *[[Isaac II Angelus]] (1156-1204, ruled [[1185]] - [[1195]]) – great-grandso...
    109: ...exius IV Angelus]] (1182-1204, ruled [[1203]] - [[1204]]) – son of Isaac II
    110: ...Angelus]] (restored with Alexius IV, [[1203]] - [[1204]])
    111: ...zuphlus (the Bushy-eyebrowed) (1140-1204, ruled [[1204]]) – son-in-law of Alexius III
    114: *[[Theodore I Lascaris]] (1174-1222, ruled [[1204]] - [[1222]]) – son-in-law of Alexius III
  19. Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
    14: ...ing and government employment were no longer the only means of gaining wealth and prestige. The develo...
    18: ...enturies. Included in these refinements were not only the [[Tang Dynasty|Tang]] ideal of the universal...
    51:
    183:
    244: [[nl:Song-dynastie]]

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