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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: [[Image:Christine de Pisan - Project Gutenberg eBook 12254.jpg|thumbnail|right|250...
2: ...nterpreted as a feminist push for expanded female roles; although Pisan in fact was merely describing ...
4: ...came a court writer employed by various ducal and Royal households, in order to support her three chil...
5: ... of Orleans]] and attacked the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...and died in [[1389]] she found herself without a protector, and with three children depending on her. ... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...not uncontroversial, with some claiming that the proper start of the scientific revolution was the pub...
7: ...cor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differe...
9: ...lear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. That is, at that time there...
11: ...ence Howard Margolis as part of a larger (and controversial) theory of the causes of the revolution (M...
26: *Laws of hydrostatics - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...ddle Ages and monumental Church mosaics were the crowing glory. One of the most famous of the survivin...
3: ...ars of [[art history]] in [[Western art history|Europe]], the [[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and ...
5: ...Migration Period art]], [[Pre-Romanesque art]], [[Romanesque art]], [[Gothic art]], [[Trecento art]], ...
9: ...arbarian" artistic culture of Northern Europe to produce a remarkable artistic legacy. Indeed the hist...
13: Art in the Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians traditionally look a... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: .... [[Costume jewelry|Costume jewellery]] is made from less valuable materials. However, jewellery can ...
5: ...as [[anglicise]]d from the Old French "jouel" in around the [[13th century]]. Further tracing leads b...
14: This is a jewellery [[timeline]] from the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to th...
16: ...opper]] in [[Anatolia]], [[Iran]] and [[Eastern Europe]].
21: ...] - Egypt and Iran makeing simple [[hammer]]ed [[iron]] beads - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ...Arnold Dolmetsch at the end of the 19th century. From the mid-18th century it principally flourished i...
5: In the clavichord the strings run transversely from an anchorage at the left-hand end to tuning-pegs...
7: Since the string vibrates from the bridge only as far as the tangent, multiple ...
11: ...s son [[Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach]] was a great proponent of the instrument.
13: ..., Martin Kather, Joris Potvleighe, Karin Richter, Ronald Haas, and Thomas Steiner. - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...tos'' (Αιγυπτος), which itself is the source of the nam...
12: ...artly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at the [[Atbara River]] in [[Su...
14: ...approximately 5584 km (3470 miles). It drains approximately 2.8 million to 3.4 million km² (1.1 ...
20: ... from equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile, from Ethiopia. Both branches formed on the western f...
24: ...the farthest headstream of the Nile is the [[Ruvyironza]] River in Burundi, which is an upper branch o... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
37: established_dates = From [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugos...
40: time_zone= [[Central European Time|CET]] |
42: time_zone_DST= [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] |
52: ...e west, the [[Adriatic Sea]] to the southwest, [[Croatia]] to the south and east, [[Hungary]] to the n...
54: ...2004]]. It is also a member of the [[Council of Europe]], [[NATO]], and has observer status in [[La Fr... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
2: of[http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
8: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
9: ...gypt|Memphis]], the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]].
11: ...out in [[1925]], to the great pleasure of its numerous visitors.
13: The body of the Sphinx was carved out of solid bedrock whose removed stones some weighing upwards of 2... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ...]] of the [[Great Rift Valley|Nile Valley]] from around [[3300 BC]] until the conquest of [[Alexander ...
7: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
14: ...rpluses of water for use during the dry seasons. From the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First d...
15: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
16: ...n Smith]] and [[Ebers papyrus|Ebers papyri]]. The roots of the [[Scientific method#History|Scientific ... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
1: ...on Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|thumb|200px|Iron Age Axe found on Gotland]]
3: ...the development of any people where the use of [[iron]] implements as tools and weapons is preeminent....
5: ... [[Copper Age]] and later the [[Bronze Age]] in Europe and Asia whilst in the rest of the world it was...
7: ...se in various areas is listed below, broadly in chronological order.
9: ==The Iron Age== - Sun (20830 bytes)
10: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>Earth
21: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>[[Milky Way]] core
55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
61: ! align="left" | Temperature of [[corona]]
73: ...olor="#ffffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''[[Rotation]] characteristics''' - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...lly in [[Japan]]. ''Silk road'' is a translation from the [[German language|German]] ''Seidenstraߥ'',...
3: ...hern Anatolia into the [[Mediterranean Sea]] or through the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Afri...
5: ..., if ever, covered the whole distance between [[Europe]], or the [[Middle East]], and [[China]], by la...
7: The last missing railroad link on the Silk Road was completed in [[1992]], when the internation...
10: ===Cross-continental travel=== - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
1: ...=0 width=300 style="margin: 0.5em 0 1em 1em; background: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-co...
3: |+<big><big>'''''Romania'''''</big></big>
15: | [[527]] || Justinian I becomes emperor.
21: ...th Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
29: ...he Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south. - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
1: {{History of European art music}}
2: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
3: ...of the Roman Empire]] ([[476]] CE) and ends in approximately the middle of the fifteenth century. Thou...
17: ...d a massive impact on the subsequent history of European music. Most of the surviving notated music of...
18: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]] - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ...n accordance with the dates and [[nomenclature]] proposed by the [[International Commission on Stratig...
9: ...y and define universal horizons that can be used around the world.
13: ... realize that: 1) Sequences of strata were often eroded, distorted, tilted, or even inverted after dep...
15: ...ak of a "Tertiary Period" as well as of "Tertiary Rocks." Indeed, "Tertiary" and "Quaternary" remaine...
17: ...iled studies of the strata and fossils of Europe produced, between 1820 and 1850, the sequence of geol... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
12: Governor = [[Rod Blagojevich]] |
39: ... its largest city is [[Chicago]], along the waterfront of [[Lake Michigan]]. Most of the state's popu...
45: ... Illini suffered in the seventeenth century as [[Iroquois]] expansion forced them to compete with seve...
47: ===European exploration===
53: ...]] spent his formative years. [[Chicago]] gained prominence as a [[canal]] port after [[1848]], and as... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
1: [[Image:Crossbow1.png|right|Crossbow]]
2: ...ess played a significant role in the history of European medieval warfare and is still used in modern ...
5: ... of hand-held firearms may have been copied from crossbows.
7: ...consistent performance was part of what made the crossbow historically a significant force in warfare.
8: [[Image:Crossbow2.png|right|Crossbow]] - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as ''...
7: ...their father died; neither received any training from him.
9: ... nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distinguish him from other members of the [[Brueghel|Brueghel dynasty...
11: ...[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of winters durin...
14: ...9]], with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 [[proverb]]s]] - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
1: ...eposition.jpg|right|thumb|350px|''Deposition'' by Roger van der Weyden (c.1435) Oil on oak panel, 220 ...
3: ...s Roger de la Pasture, Rogier de Bruxelles, (c. [[1400]] - [[June 18]], [[1464]]) was a [[Flanders|Flemi...
7: ...i]], where in [[1427]] he entered the studio of [[Robert Campin]], previously known as the Master of F...
13: ...g|thumb|250px|Philip the Good, painted c. 1450 by Roger van der Weyden]]
15: ...el-like perfection. Unlike other Flemish masters, Roger used little underdrawing for his oil paintings...
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