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  1. Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
    12: ...]], he had suffered a complete mental breakdown. Rumours were rife that he was incapable of fathering...
    16: ...lowed up with a victory at [[St Albans]] on 22 February 1461, at which she defeated the Yorkist forces...
    20: ...s, she had gained a reputation for aggression and ruthlessness, but now she was a broken spirit, impri...
  2. Renaissance (14795 bytes)
    7: ...pg|right|thumb|180px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the blend of art and sci...
    23: ... the [[fall of Constantinople]] to the Turks in [[1453]]. It was a turning point in warfare as [[cannon]...
    30: ...rote that he belonged to a great age; [[Leonardo Bruni]]'s <i>Panegyric to the City of Florence</i> ex...
    32: ...ne Battista Alberti]]. Of [[Filippo Brunelleschi|Brunelleschi]], he felt that he was the greatest arch...
    34: ...uralism about contemporary sculpture, and highly true to life figures were being sculpted. Often bibli...
  3. Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
    6: ...barian]]" tribal confederations, some of whom distrusted and rejected the classical culture of Rome, w...
    8: .... Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise of ill...
    12: ...ries a completely new political and social infrastructure developed across the lands of the former emp...
    14: ...[Vikings]] were still capable of causing major disruption to the newly emerging societies of Western E...
    16: ... of such consolidation include the [[Albigensian Crusade]] and the [[Wars of the Roses]].
  4. Medieval art (6359 bytes)
    5: ... there were many unique genres of art, such as [[Crusade art]] or [[animal style]].
    19: ...ic, Slavic and other peoples during the [[V?rwanderung|Migration period]] from about 300-900 (to be co...
    27: ...covery sheds new understanding. After 843 until [[1453]] there is a clear Byzantine art tradition. It wa...
    93: **[[Andrei Rublev]]
  5. Printing press (12986 bytes)
    8: ...ge of metals that he learned as a craftsman were crucial to the later invention of the press. The clai...
    16: ...s Europe. Within thirty years of its invention in 1453, towns from Hungary to Spain, and from Italy to B...
    18: ...slim Spain) in the 1480s. This printing press was run by a family of Jewish merchants who printed text...
    25: ...od block printing which was more suited for short runs of texts for which the return was uncertain.
    29: ...wed the exact citing of references, producing the rule, "One Author, one work (title), one piece of in...
  6. Greece (54754 bytes)
    65: ...enians, all parts of Greece were united under the rule of [[Alexander the Great]] and aimed at the def...
    72: ...eventh century progressed, much of Greece was overrun by Slavic peoples from the north, and a period o...
    80: ...ading epochs between 1204 to 1458, Greece was overrun by warrings Byzantines, French and Italian knigh...
    82: ...stantinople|Constantinople fell]] on [[May 29]] [[1453]] to the [[Ottoman Empire]]. Its last emperor, [[...
    87: ...Christians, who dealt with the burdens of foreign rule, or to a considerable extent Crypto-Christians ...
  7. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    20: *[[Minoru Yamasaki|Yamasaki, Minoru]] (1912-1986), [[United States|US]] [[architect]]
    37: *[[Yury Yarov|Yarov, Yury]], (born 1942), Russian politician, former deputy prime minister and...
    40: *[[Lev Yashin|Yashin, Lev]], ([[1929]]-[[1990]]), Russian football goalkeeper
    56: ...igory Yavlinsky|Yavlinsky, Grigory]] (born 1952), Russian economist and politician
    68: ... Yegorov|Yegorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
  8. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
    188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
    210: *[[Rush Brown]] ([[1948]]-)
    211: *[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] ([[1568]]-[[1625]])
    212: *[[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] ([[1601]]-[[1678]])
  9. Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
    38: | Constantinople is occupied by crusaders; Latin empire formed.
    43: | [[1453]]
    51: ... as "Imperium Graecorum", "Graecia", "Terra Graecorum" or even "Imperium Constantinopolitanus".
    57: ... the East and ended its thousand year history, in 1453, as a [[Greek Orthodox]] state: An empire that be...
    70: ...e. He split the Empire in half, with two emperors ruling from Italy and Greece, each having a co-emper...
  10. Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
    3: ...[[France]], beginning in [[1337]] and ending in [[1453]]. Historians lump these conflicts under the same...
    8: ...hip and installing a new [[Anglo-Norman]] power structure as William took the English throne as Willia...
    10: The Anglo-Normans ruled both Normandy and England for over 150 years. ...
    13: ...gan in France, where the [[Capetian dynasty]] had ruled for over 320 years, with one male heir after t...
    15: ...] obligated to buy her claims off (using also the rumor that Joan was a product of her mother's adulte...
  11. Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
    3: ... described as the [[Roman Republic]], since the structure of the power in that age was the one of a re...
    5: ...[Constantinople]]. After another millennium, in [[1453]], the Eastern Empire, better known as the [[Byza...
    7: ... for such a long period of time [[31 BC]] &#8211; 1453, there are certain alternative names used by hist...
    11: ...of Bulgarian monarchs]]), the [[History of Russia|Russian/Kiev]] dynasties (see [[tsar|czars]]), and t...
    17: ...ury]] and Rome had been effectively under one-man rule since the time of [[Lucius Cornelius Sulla|Sull...
  12. Russia (28007 bytes)
    2: ... or ''Rossijskaja Federacija''), or '''Russia''' (Russian: &#1056;&#1086;&#1089;&#1089;&#1080;&#769;&#...
    4: .... In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR...
    6: ...sia. Consequently, after the breakup of the USSR, Russia again vied for an influential role on the wor...
    7: {{Russia infobox}}
    10: {{main|History of Russia}}
  13. History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
    29: ...Gentiles]]. In Acts 15:19ff at the [[Council of Jerusalem]] James judged that new Gentile converts sho...
    84: ...ly encouraging it, as the religion favoured their rule.
    107: ...ritings of this period, however, succumbed to destruction from the Early Catholic Church as heretical,...
    136: ...addition, Constantine instituted use of the [[labarum|Chi-Rho symbol]], representative of Christianity...
    142: ...dually came to be identified with the will of the ruling elite; and in some cases was little more than...
  14. Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
    38: | [[Akce]], [[Kurus]], [[Lira]]
    45: ...be of [[Oghuz Turks]] in western [[Anatolia]] and ruled by the [[Osmanl&#305;]] dynasty. In diplomatic...
    47: ...s with the [[Caliphate]], the Islamic State. In [[1453]], after the Ottomans [[Fall of Constantinople|ca...
    53: ...ing). With the capture of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]], the state became a mighty [[empire]] with [[Me...
    55: ...soldiers and arms were sent to support [[Muslim]] rulers in [[Kenya]] and [[Aceh]] and to defend the O...
  15. Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
    5: == Construction ==
    7: ...e site during the 4th century. Following the destruction of the first church, a second was built by [...
    10: ...us, however, died within the first year. The construction is described in [[Procopius]]' ''On Building...
    24: The structure has been severely damaged several times by [...
    26: ...orphyry (geology)|porphyry]] and gold mosaics, encrusted upon the brick. On the exterior, simple stucc...
  16. Konya (2390 bytes)
    5: ...te of R?]], though temporarily occupied by the [[Crusaders]] [[Godfrey of Bouillon]] (August [[1097]])...
    7: ...e city remained the capital of the Turkish puppet-ruler under the Mongol warlord [[M?e Khan]].
    9: ...aramanid fell to the [[Ottoman Empire]] and, in [[1453]], Konya was made the provincial capital of the O...
    11: ...ues in Konya. The tomb of [[Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi]], a mystical poet and founder of [[The Whirlin...
    15: On [[February 2]], [[2004]], an apartment building collapsed...
  17. Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
    1: ...ntury]] until the fall of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]]. (The Roman Empire during this period is conven...
    3: ...artistic tradition has continued in [[Greece]], [[Russia]] and other [[Eastern Orthodox]] countries to...
    7: ...Greece (see [[Greek art]]), and at least before [[1453]] never lost sight of its classical heritage, but...
    13: ...line in artistic skills and standards, and it is true that some of the technical expertise of the clas...
    19: ...sing of artistic skill to the service of the one true religion, rather than using it for the productio...
  18. Byzantine coinage (4605 bytes)
    10: ...he silver Dinar (weight roughly 1.5g) which was struck in imitation of the Roman Denarius which widely...
    12: ...lation until the end of the Byzantine Empire in [[1453]], though after the second half of the fourteenth...
    14: ... 10th century so-called "anonymous folles" were struck instead of the earlier coins depicting the empe...
    17: ... coins known as trachy were issued in both [[electrum]] (debased gold) and [[billon]] (debased silver)...
    24: * Byzantine coinage by rulers: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/i.html
  19. Constantinople (4125 bytes)
    7: ...ntinople was captured and sacked by the [[Fourth Crusade]] in [[1204]] (April 12), and then re-capture...
    9: ...y fell to the [[Ottoman Empire]] on [[May 29]], [[1453]], during the reign of Constantine Paleologos (&#...
    18: * the [[Bosphorus]]
  20. Medieval History (23198 bytes)
    8: ...barian]]" tribal confederations, some of whom distrusted and rejected the classical culture of Rome, w...
    10: .... Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise of ill...
    14: ...ries a completely new political and social infrastructure developed across the lands of the former emp...
    16: ...[Vikings]] were still capable of causing major disruption to the newly emerging societies of Western E...
    18: ... of such consolidation include the [[Albigensian Crusade]] and the [[Wars of the Roses]].

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