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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ... ancient classical texts and learning and their applications in the arts and sciences. Second, it mean...
7: ...[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the blend of art and science during the Renai...
9: ===Multiple Renaissances===
10: ...e [[periodization|periodisation]], [[Lumpers and splitters]])
19: ...aces for when the Middle Ages ended. The starting place of the Renaissance is almost universally ascri... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...eviously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christopher Columbus]],...
3: The Age of Exploration was rooted in new technologies and ideas g...
5: ==Exploration by land==
6: ...ccurate world maps prior to the age of European exploration]]
7: ... between Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ...s]], forming the [[Celt-Iberian]]s. Early Greek explorers named the region "[[Ophiussa]]" (Greek for "...
21: ...radle of Portugal." The Battle of S㯠Mamede took place nearby in 1128. (courtesy IPPAR)]]
25: An [[Islam]]ic invasion took place in [[711]]. Many of the ousted nobles took ref...
29: ...as formally recognized. Afonso, aided by the [[Templar Knights]], continued to conquer southern lands ...
31: ...torious John was then acclaimed as king by the people. - Donatello (10376 bytes)
10: ...ers. It aroused public enthusiasm, however, when placed in situ, and at a later date received [[Miche...
14: ...ruelly realistic character portraits of actual people, just as the arms and legs and necks are faithfu...
18: ...The Ascension''. The Baptistery tomb shows how completely Donatello had mastered the forms of Renaissa...
20: ...uth, he had altered nothing, simply adjusting the placement of the viewer in relation to the statue.
23: ...cides with Cosimo's. Almost immediately, in May [[1434]], he signed a contract for the marble pulpit on ... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: ...umb|250px|''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]'', painted 1434]]
7: ... the properties of colours from [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]. Later on, Hubert admitted him into partners...
11: He was frequently employed in missions of trust; and following the fortu...
15: ...lence, none being better than those which were completed about [[1432]].
19: ...panels of the ''[[Worship of the Lamb]]'' were completed nine years later. They show that Jan van Eyck... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737...
3: ...inance, the city is sometimes considered the birthplace of the [[Italian Renaissance]]. Florence is fa...
19: ...acy|Papal]] [[Guelphs]], who after their victory split in turn into feuding "White" and "Black" factio...
23: ...ression, the city came under the sway ([[1382]]-[[1434]]) of the [[Albizzi]] family, bitter rivals of th...
25: ...mosexuality#History|sodomy]] and of other worldly pleasures foreshadowed many of the wider religious c... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
5: ...ristianity. For the purposes of his interest in exploration, however, the appointment proved important...
9: ...ith the [[lateen sail]] of the Arabs, made the complicated return voyages, headed upwind, possible; wi...
15: ...me the first European known to pass the cape in [[1434]].
17: ...med the credit). By [[1460]] the Portuguese had explored the coast of Africa as far as present-day [[...
19: ... last twenty-three years he concentrated on his exploration activities, or on Portuguese court politic... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], searching fo...
12: ... for the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
13: *[[1916]] - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the ...
19: ...S ''Franklin'']], killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.
24: ...rk, New York|New York]], [[New York]] kills 24 people. - Rome (33048 bytes)
15: ...anus – [[SPQR]]''<br>(The Senate and the People of Rome)</small>
38: ...ncircle the nine largest italian cities: Milan, Naples, Turin, Bologna, Palermo Catania, Florence, Gen...
49: ...r another [[Italic languages|Italic]] speaking people the [[Sabines]]. At this location the Tiber form...
51: ====Peoples of Early Italy====
52: ...ending of these peoples with [[Mediterranean]] people, perhaps from [[North Africa]]. In the [[8th cen...
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