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- Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...d English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] an...
27: ...g [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne...
31: ...er, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
33: ...lish service. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He ...
37: ... were removed from the ecclesiastical bench and replaced by appointees who would submit to the Queen'... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...n Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of th...
7: ...astronomy]] until [[1610]]. During this time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
14: ...on falling bodies (actually rolling balls) were replicated using the methods described by Galileo (Set...
18: ...lescope is inaccurate, he was one of the first people to use the telescope to observe the [[sky]]. Bas...
20: ... of the [[natural satellite|moons]] of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Galileo published a full descript... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...r his [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "...
4: ...er, Kepler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo ...
6: ...s Kepler University Linz]] in honor of Johannes Kepler, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonic...
8: ==Kepler's life==
9: ...at town, but by the time Johannes was born, the Kepler family fortunes were in decline. His father ea... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...n called the ''[[Baconian method]]''. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world throu...
21: ...im to devote himself to a life of learning. His application failed, and for the next two years he work...
25: ...; in fashion, Bacon failed to become solicitor in 1595. To console him for these disappointments Essex ...
29: ... a gift of a fine of ?1200 on one of Essex's accomplices.
35: ... to sit in parliament -- and to the various royal plans which Bacon had supported. His obvious influen... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
6: ==Motives for exploration and colonization==
9: ... [[Renaissance]], a development that encouraged exploration and colonization in many ways. A revival ...
11: ...power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe began to ...
13: ...ed States]] presented themselves as an attractive place for these new powers to establish colonies. T...
16: ...lation]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respective parts. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
12: ...]] where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map of Europe ([[1554]]) and he t...
14: ...87]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]]
15: ...e]] in [[1588]], further maps were published in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]....
20: *''Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet'' by Nicholas Crane, ISBN 0805066241, Henry H...
22: ...rld and its Form) by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Cong... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
325: *[[List of people by occupation]] - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
9: ...orld]] under the sails of the Hawkins family of [[Plymouth]], in company with his cousin, Sir [[John H...
12: ...im an outlaw [[pirate]], but to England he was simply a sailor and [[privateer]]. On his second such v...
13: ...was unable to officially acknowledge Drake's accomplishment. Such intrigues were typical during Drake'...
16: ...e Pacific coast of the Americas. He set sail from Plymouth, England, in December aboard the ''Pelican'...
24: ...ered in [[Marin County]]. The so-called [[Drake's Plate of Brass]] was later declared a fraud. Althoug... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
167: ...[Thomas Digges]] ([[England]], [[1546]] – [[1595]])
318: *[[Johannes Kepler]] ([[Germany]], [[1571]] – [[1630]])
346: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1827]])
463: *[[Philip Plait]] ([[United States|USA]])
464: *[[Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana]] ([[Italy]], [[1781]] – [[1864]]) - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...word ''Sikh'', which means a strong and able disciple. The core beliefs of Sikhism are belief in one ...
4: ... certain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyond...
10: ...e True Name, although manifest in many ways, many places and known by many names, is eternally One, th...
14: ...d the cycle of [[reincarnation]] by living a disciplined life – that is, by moderating egoism an...
22: ...k was fascinated by religion, and his desire to explore the mysteries of life eventually led him to le... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: The '''Aztecs''' were a [[Mesoamerica]]n people of central Mexico in the [[14th century|14th]], ...
9: ...ebates in Mexica scholarship), so this name was applied to other cultures of the same cultural group. ...
11: ...eaving Aztlan, [[Huitzilopochtli]] ordered his people not to use the word Azteca, instead they should ...
14: ...logia e Historia, for example, refers to these people as Mexica.
22: The Aztec [[Empire]] is not completely analogous to the empires of European history... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
20: | [[Istanbul|İstanbul]] ([[Constantinople]]/[[Asitane]]/[[Konstantiniyye]] )
29: ...m km² (1902); 19.9m km² maximum extent (1595)
45: ...en referred to as the ''[[Sublime Porte]]'' or simply as ''the Porte'', from the [[French language|Fre...
47: ... [[Fall of Constantinople|captured]] [[Constantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the ...
53: ...sultan]] (king). With the capture of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]], the state became a mighty [[empir... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
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7: ...rs, but then the [[Hittites]] sacked Babylon in [[1595 BC]], installing the [[Kassite]] dynasty. Its cit...
15: ...nidus where he recounts his restoration of the temple of the Moon-god at Harran; as well as by a procl...
17: ...h guards were placed at the gates of the great temple of Bel, where the services continued without int...
19: ...rk of excavating the foundation records of the temples and determining the dates of their builders. - Sumer (14409 bytes)
1: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
5: ...to no known language family, as compared, for example, to [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] which belongs...
10: ...ed various [[city-state]]s, each centered on a temple dedicated to the patron [[god]] of the city and ...
21: ...e of [[Mitanni]] in northern Mesopotamia around [[1595 BC]], while the Babylonians controlled the south....
26: ...eavily on [[irrigation]]. The irrigation was accomplished by the use of [[shaduf]]s, [[canal]]s, [[cha... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]]...
9: ...s in the Holy Land were the work of either the Templars or Hospitallers, at the height of the Kingdom ...
15: ...His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309]] after over two ...
17: ...] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
25: After seven years of moving from place to place in [[Europe]], the Knights were re-established... - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
15: ...escription of the Universe) (Duisburg, [[1585]]-[[1595]]).
23: ...he [[Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli]] in [[Naples, Italy]]. This figure is frequently found on th...
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