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- Netherlands (35958 bytes)
55: ...t, the home of the monarch, and the location for most foreign embassies. The Netherlands ranked fifth ...
62: ...vinces]] of the Netherlands, which also includes most of present-day [[Belgium]]. In [[1568]] the [[Ei...
64: ...the [[Dutch Golden Age]], colonies and [[trading post]]s were established all over the globe.
66: ...]]) and the first full-time [[stock exchange]], whose inventiveness led to [[insurance]] and retiremen...
70: The Netherlands possessed several colonies, most notably the [[Dutch East Indies]] (now [[Indones... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...e historians argue that Early Ming China was the most advanced nation on Earth at the time.
6: ...zhang, the future [[Hongwu emperor]], became the most powerful of the various [[Han Chinese]] groups a...
8: ...easant revolutionaries to have ruled the world's most populous nation.
10: ...n, and given the realistic threat to China still posed by the Mongols, Hongwu reassessed the orthodox ...
14: ...ure and philosophy was revamped. Candidates for posts in the civil service or the officer corps of th... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
9: ...er the breaking up of the prince's household in [[1421]], Jan became his own master, left the workshop o...
15: ...not of equal excellence, none being better than those which were completed about [[1432]].
17: ...ow be seen at [[Chatsworth]], bearing the date of 1421; no doubt this picture would give a fair represen...
19: ...Hubert's compositions to guide him, he had also those parts to look at and to study which Hubert had f...
21: He continued the work with almost as much vigour as his master. His own experience... - 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... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...luğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
45: ...so been interpreted as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its d...
47: ...capital. Following [[World War I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies...
53: ... Empire]] in the [[13th century]]. In [[1299]], [[Osman I]] declared independence of the ''Ottoman Pri... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...d defence of [[pilgrim|pilgrims]]. Following the loss of Christian territory in the [[Holy Land]], the...
5: ...t]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery...
7: ...n Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order ...
9: ...s, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other est...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
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