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- Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ...ller. He told many stories to Kublai Khan. The Polos lived in [[China]] for seventeen years before ret...
5: ...er and his uncle Maffeo (also ''Maffio'') were prosperous merchants in the East trade. The two mercha...
7: ...co was said to have been born. Regardless, the Polos gained prominence in Venice and are historically ...
16: ...ressed, the people of Venice still doubted the Polos.
18: ... of Marco Polo]]'') was written. The original is lost and we have several often-conflicting versions o... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French [[civil war]] ...
5: ...new monarchies. It is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in [[medieval warfare]].
10: ...wever, in [[1216]], the Anglo-Normans lost their possessions to France. English nobles in the [[14th c...
17: ...y. Another effect of the war was to galvanize opposition to Edward II among the English lords of Aqui...
21: ... III, being the nephew of King Charles, was his closest living male relative and was the only survivin... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...ensus estimate 2004-01-01). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy [[lagoon]] al...
6: ...iatic made Venetian naval and commercial power almost invulnerable.
10: ...mercial empire, the Republic acquired control of most of the islands in the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]], inc...
20: ...n a number of occasions and twice suffered its imposition. The second, more famous, occasion was on [[...
24: ... the "Settecento" that Venice became perhaps the most elegant and refined city in [[Europe]], greatly ... - Padua (12961 bytes)
2: ...nto large communal ''piazze'', and many bridges crossing the various branches of the [[Bacchiglione]],...
4: Padua was where most of the action in [[Shakespeare]]'s play, ''[[The...
9: ...he [[Gran Guardia]], ([[1493]] - [[1526]]), and close by is the [[Palazzo del Capitanio]], the residen...
11: The most famous of the Paduan churches is the [[basilica]...
13: ... dell'Arena]], containing the Scrovegni chapel, whose inner walls are entirely covered with paintings ...
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