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- Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...nting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], A...
2: ...tury]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]], became a...
7: ...the following years. In [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disi...
10: ...Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...cumstances) and brought her through Burgundian-controlled territory to Chinon. She was said to have c... - Ming Dynasty Tombs (3836 bytes)
3: ...mperor [[Yongle Emperor of China|Yongle]] (1402 - 1424), who moved the [[Capital of China|Capital City o...
5: ...himself on the now famous [[Guilty Chinese Scholartree]]).
7: ...s in a pristine, quiet valley full of dark earth, tranquil water and other necessities as per Feng Shu...
16: ...ntroduction_in_Snow.html Shisan Ling Ming Tombs Introduction]
18: ...ugong-Palace_Museum/Forbidden_City_Beijing.html Introduction to The Forbidden City by Emperor Yongle] - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...ing 1,500 tons and a standing army of one million troops. Over 100,000 tons of [[iron]] per year were ...
8: ...der, he came in contact with the well-educated gentry [[Confucian]] scholars, from whom he received an...
10: ... scholar bureaucracy. Simply put, maintaining a strong military was essential since the Mongols were ...
12: With a Confucian aversion to trade, Hongwu also supported the creation of self-su...
14: ...assic texts|Classics]]. The Confucian scholar gentry, marginalized under the Yuan for nearly a centur... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: ...ge:Arnolfini.jpg|thumb|250px|''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]'', painted 1434]]
3: ...ption that van Eyck invented oil paint, but it is true that he perfected the technique.
9: ...ned the faithful servant of his prince, who never treated him otherwise than graciously.
11: ...ime to have been in ceaseless motion, receiving extra pay for secret services at [[Leiden]], drawing h...
13: ... beg the hand of [[Isabella of Portugal]]. His portrait of the bride fixed the duke's choice. After hi... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...r was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French [[civil war]...
8: ...ship and installing a new [[Anglo-Norman]] power structure as William took the English throne as Willi...
17: ...land, and only [[Bordeaux]] and a narrow coastal strip now remained in English possession. The recover...
21: ...Edward II]] and was at the time effectively in control of the crown, having forced her politically wea...
27: England controlled [[Gascony]] in what is now southwest France,... - Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
5: ...ain were conquered by [[Germanic peoples|Germanic tribes]] from the contemporary [[Jutland]] area. Sim...
7: ...s. After the [[Norman Conquest]], English power intruded into Wales with increasing vigour, but the pr...
10: ...Celtic marauders and invaders, and when the Roman troops left, the Britons had no effective defence.
12: ..., the Anglo-Saxons were able to take over the country in a matter of three to four years.
14: ...s and Angles are well attested, some of the other tribes supposedly involved in the conquest are very ...
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