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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ld be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regio...
5: ...l]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first ...
7: ...ates]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is c...
21: ...rothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchine...
67: ...friendly. He wrote with such awe of the friendly innocence and beauty of these [[Native Americans|Indi... - Steel (28384 bytes)
28: ...into tools in pre-contact [[North America]]. Beginning around the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people...
32: ...Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.]] Beginning between [[3000 BC]] to [[2000 BC]] increasing ...
36: ...that warfare and mass migrations beginning around 1200 BC disrupted the regional tin trade, forcing a sw...
40: ...l fire for prolonged periods of time. By the beginning of the iron age, smiths had discovered that ir...
62: ...ided an application for iron casting, cast iron cannonballs. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
37: ...rew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
49: ...ams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn F驮]] leader
69: ...hitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
85: *[[Cannonball Adderley|Adderley, Cannonball]], (1928-1975), saxophonist - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
9: ...ious marriage to [[Agnes of Courtenay]] had been annulled (though he had succeeded in having his child...
13: ...ters questioned Sibylla's legitimacy, due to the annullment of her parents' marriage, but this positio...
17: ...a divorce, which took the form of ecclesiastical annullment made by the [[archbishop of Pisa]], the [[...
23: ...) and [[Melisende of Lusignan|Melisende]] (born [[1200]]), and one son, Amalric ([[1201]]–1205). K... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...ugustus]], Prince of [[Anhalt-Zerbst]], and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Eliza...
17: ...]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd statesman, Panin...
21: ...lish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years aft...
25: ...ince Nassau, had 32 larger and 200 smaller ships, 1200 guns, and 14,000 men; the Swedes, commanded by Gu...
35: ...f the peasants held as serfs, Catherine had him banned to [[Siberia]]. - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
90: <td>~1200</td> - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
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: ...ears old but also takes advantage of more modern innovations in the fields of chemistry and electronic...
16: ...for making precisely matched sets of items e.g. dinnerware. Doing handwork enables the potter to use t...
19: ...sually the most difficult skill to master for beginning potters.
68: ...ium BC]], in the Japanese Palaeolithic at the beginning of the [[Jomon]] period. This is the oldest k... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
25: ...ean]] civilization covers the time period of 3000-1200 BC, during the [[Bronze Age]], in the area of the...
29: ...[[Minos]] and reached its peak in the second millennium BC. - Silk (8683 bytes)
12: [[Image:Spinning_silk.jpg|thumb|250px|Spinning Silk, Thailand. Image provided by [http://clas...
57: ...ern Regions according to the Hou Hanshu.'' Draft annotated English translation.[http://depts.washingto...
58: ...Account Composed between 239 and 265 CE.'' Draft annotated English translation. Appendix E. [http://de...
60: ...f Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200''. Oxford University Press.
61: ... annotated by E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-chuan Sun. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966. Reprint: Do... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
204: *Iannas (Ianassi son of Kyan)
241: *Amenmesse (Menmire) 1203-1200
242: *Seti II (Userkheperure-setepenre) 1200-1194
263: *Psusennes I (Akheperre-setepenamun) 1039-991
267: *[[Psusennes II|Har-Psusennes II]] (Tjekheperre-setepenre) 959-945 - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...ty]] while enjoying extensive [[autonomy]]. The Finnish language name for Finland is '''Suomi.''' In t...
16: ...'[[Official language]]''' || [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish]]
46: ...<small><sup>1</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[Markka|Finnish markka]]. Euro a bank currency since 1999, in ...
51: ... considered probable that the speakers of the [[Finno-Ugric]] language arrived in Finland during the S...
53: ...t the obcscure and possibly fictious stories of Finnish kings in Scandinavian sagas. - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...7th century BCE]] and [[Christianity]] at the beginning of the [[1st century]] CE. The name Israel tra...
60: ...sted intermittently in the region for over a millennium until the failure of the [[Great Jewish Revolt...
83: ...eadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and launched a guerilla war.
87: ...the State of Israel was proclaimed. Promising to annihilate the new Jewish state (though their actual ...
89: ...pt and came under its control, but Egypt did not annex it. - Sudan (18856 bytes)
60: ... years include [[Makuria]] and the [[Kingdom of Sennar]].
68: ...vil war. In September [[1983]] President Nimeiri announced his decision to extend Islamic [[Shari'a]] ...
92: ...t of the [[Sudan People's Liberation Army]]. Beginning from the mid-1990s Sudan gradually began to mo...
98: ...iver Nile, Sudan|River Nile]], [[Sennar (state)|Sennar]], [[South Darfur]], [[South Kurdufan]], [[Unit...
196: ...udies/Country_Specific/Sudan.html University of Pennsylvania - African Studies Center: ''Sudan''] dire... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
59: ...tural]] techniques before it disappeared around [[1200]] A.D., probably because of extended [[drought]]....
85: ...uring which Sᮣhez de Lozada was Minister for Planning). The most dramatic change undertaken by the S...
93: ...m. Quiroga was constitutionally prohibited from running for national office in [[2002]] but could do s...
165: ...emisphere]] selected for eligibility for the Millennium Challenge Account and is participating as an o...
172: .... (25 per sq. mi.) in the central highlands. The annual population growth rate is about 2.74% (2002). - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
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]].
15: ...hey expanded to farm wider areas of [[Savanna|savannah]]. The technologically superior Bantu spread ac...
21: ...s replaced bronze weapons by the early [[1st millennium BC]]. Because the area in which iron technolog...
31: The early 1st millennium BC marks the Iron Age in Eastern Europe. In th... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
6: ...poken language, a feature regarded by many as an innate and defining condition of humankind. However, ...
23: ...script]] may have evolved independently, around [[1200 BC]].
56: ... base is annotated in a more or less consistent manner to represent the vowel in the syllable).
71: ...arn, and languages that have them (for example, Finnish) have much lower barriers to literacy than lan...
116: ...an hieroglyph]] is one such script, where the beginning of a line written horizontally was to be indic... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
73: ...ypes of [[dinosaur]]s (e.g. [[Tyrannosauridae|Tyrannosaurs]], [[Titanosauridae|Titanosaurs]], [[Hadros...
81: ...n="3" | Gymnosperms (especially [[conifer]]s, [[Bennettitales]] and [[cycad]]s) and [[fern]]s common. ...
113: ...ferous]]<sup>4</sup> '''/'''<br>[[Pennsylvanian|Pennsyl-<br>vanian]]
114: | style="background:#689FCA" | [[Late Pennsylvanian|Upper/Late]]
118: | style="background:#689FCA" | [[Middle Pennsylvanian|Middle]] - Civilization (29205 bytes)
31: ...ennium BC|10th]] and [[4th millennium BC|4th millennia BC]]. However ongoing excavations reveal that a...
34: ...uted to Japan (Ingpen & Wilkinson) in [[10th millennium BC|10000 BC]], two thousand years before their...
37: ...ereal]]s in the East [[Sahara]] in the [[7th millennium BC]].
39: ...o take place in [[West Africa]] in the [[5th millennium BC]], with evidence of domesticated [[cattle]]...
41: ...[harpoon]]s and fish-[[hook]]s. In the [[3rd millennium BC]], indigenous West African [[pastoralism|pa... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: .... In the context of his time, such methods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [...
8: ...zabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. His mother, [[Ann Cooke Bacon]] was the second wife of Sir Nicholas...
16: ...entered ''de societate magistrorum'' at [[Gray's Inn]], and a few months later they went abroad with S...
18: ...mself, he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn in 1579.
21: ...r the next two years he worked quietly at Gray's Inn giving himself seriously to the study of law, unt...
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