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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...istory of Europe|European history]]. It marks the transitional period between the end of the [[Middle ...
5: ...''Renaissance'' is the [[French language|French]] translation, used by French historian [[Jules Michel...
7: ...jpg|right|thumb|180px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the blend of art and sc...
10: ...arly community at large; as a result, the present trend among historians is to discuss each so-called ...
12: ... which will concentrate on the Renaissance as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ... were traveled around the world to search for new trading routes and partners to feed burgeoning [[cap...
3: ...] in [[Iberia]]. These that were a combination of traditional European and Arab designs were the first...
7: ...e Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close li...
9: ...]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written up as ''[[Travels]]'' and the work was read throughout Europe.
11: ...difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic empires that had long battled the... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...uthwestern [[Europe]], and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is bordered by [...
5: ...l, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other c...
7: ...ctatorial regime in [[1974]] and the subsequent entry in the [[EEC]] (today's [[European Union]]) in [...
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17: ... decades, the Romans increased their sphere of control. But in [[194 BC]] a rebellion began in the nor... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...standing of linear perspective and eventually construct the cupola of [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] in Flo...
10: ...tion to their architectural setting. In fact, so strong is this tendency that the ''Saint Mark'', when...
14: ...rsonal, but almost cruelly realistic character portraits of actual people, just as the arms and legs a...
18: ...her sculptors of the following period based their treatment of similar works. Donatello's share in the...
20: ...were awestruck with what he had done with it. In truth, he had altered nothing, simply adjusting the ... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: ...umb|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... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737...
3: A centre of medieval [[Europe]]an trade and finance, the city is sometimes considered ...
17: ...erienced subsequent periods of [[Byzantine]], [[Ostrogothic]], [[Lombard]] and [[Frankish rule]], duri...
19: ... of whom was [[Dante Alighieri]]. This factional strife was later recorded by the White Guelph [[Dino ...
21: ...n strong gold currency, the [[guilder|florin]] (introduced in [[1252]]), the eclipse of her formerly p... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...or Ceuta served as a terminus for that trade. The trade dried up after [[Battle of Ceuta|Ceuta fell in...
5: ... at [[Sagres]], near [[Cape St Vincent]] at the extreme southwestern tip of Portugal (Braudel 1985). ...
7: ...granted Henry a "royal fifth" of all profits from trading within the areas discovered as well as the s...
9: ...ool of navigators and map-makers and became the patron of the Portuguese [[voyages of discovery]], whi...
11: - March 19 (9902 bytes)
10: ...ttle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
15: ...20]] - The [[United States Senate]] rejects the [[Treaty of Versailles]] for the second time (first ti...
20: ...nd communications facilities in [[Germany]] be destroyed.
26: ...irl from Ipanema]]'', sung by [[Astrud Gilberto|Astrud]] and [[JoćÆ Gilberto]].
27: ... [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] sign a friendship [[treaty]]. - Rome (33048 bytes)
21: ...ni (''[[Democrats of the Left|Democratici di Sinistra]]'')
25: ...tion]]<br/> - City ([[2004]])<br /> - Metropolitan <br /> - [[Density]] (city proper) ...
27: |[[Time zone]]||[[Central European Time|CET]], [[UTC]]+1
38: ...a]]. The current [[mayor of Rome]] is [[Walter Veltroni]].
49: ...traffic following the river valley and of traders traveling north and south on the west side of the [[...
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