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- Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
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12: ... of Westminster]], was born, on [[October 13]], [[1453]], he had suffered a complete mental breakdown. ...
16: ...he Duke of York and the Earl of Salisbury were destroyed. Margaret had both beheaded, and ordered the ...
18: On March 4, [[1461]], the Lancastrian army was beaten at the [[Battle of Towton]] by... - 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. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ... [[Early Modern]] period that preceded the [[Industrial Revolution]].
6: ... has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotypes associated with the phrase, but...
8: ...t. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise of il...
12: ...d a new model for society. The centralised administrative systems of the Romans did not withstand the ...
14: ...e urban control of bishops and the territorial control exercised by dukes and counts. The rise of urba... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
5: ...sque art]], [[Romanesque art]], [[Gothic art]], [[Trecento art]], [[Byzantine art]] and [[Islamic art]...
13: ...Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians traditionally look at it based on about nine large-s...
17: ... the 7th and 8th centuries it mixed with Germanic traditions through contact with the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s...
25: ...es covers a wide variety of crafts including illustrated manuscripts, textiles, ceramics, metalwork an...
27: ...843 until [[1453]] there is a clear Byzantine art tradition. It was often called the best art of the M... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
4: ...xts such as the "Pauper's Bibles" emphasized illustrations and used words sparsely. As a new block had...
6: ...ina until the European style printing press was introduced in relatively recent times (thus bringing t...
8: ...nvention of the press. The claim that Gutenberg introduced or invented the printing press in Europe is...
14: ...lamic world, where calligraphic traditions were extremely important, and also in the Far East.
16: ...d expansion shows not only a higher level of industry (fueled by the high-quality European paper mills... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...t.com Classroom Clip Art]]]'''Greece''', is a country in the southeast of [[Europe]] on the southern t...
25: ... - Total<br> - % water || [[List of countries by area|Ranked 94th]]<br/>[[1 E11 m2|131,940 k...
27: ...- [[Population density|Density]] || [[List of countries by population|Ranked 70th]]<br/>10,665,989<br/...
32: ...y GDP (nominal)|28th]])<br>$21,017 ([[List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita|28th]])
46: | '''[[List_of_country_calling_codes|Calling Code]]''' || +30 - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall o...
64: *[[Trisha Yearwood|Yearwood, Trisha]] (born 1964), musician
68: ...egorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...sei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut
74: *[[Philip Yeo|Yeo, Philip]], industrial and systems engineer - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
287: *[[Pietro da Cortona]] ([[1596]]-[[1669]]) - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...eserved today at the entrance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</small>
21: ...rth Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
29: ...[[730]]-[[787]]; [[813]]-[[843]] || Iconoclasm controversies. This results in the loss of most of the...
43: | [[1453]]
46: ...n of [[Theodosius I]] (379-395) and Christendom's triumph over paganism, or, following his death in 39... - 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,... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...y described as the [[Roman Republic]], since the structure of the power in that age was the one of a r...
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]] – 1453, there are certain alternative names used by hist...
17: ...t the Republican institutions at Rome had been destroyed over the preceding [[century]] and Rome had b...
26: *Development of [[Roman commerce|trade links]] with regions as far as India and China... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ... is the [[List of countries by area|largest]] country in the world, covering almost twice the territor...
4: ... Republics]] (USSR), Russia is an independent country, and an influential member of the [[Commonwealth...
6: Most of the area, population, and industrial production of the [[Soviet Union]], then one o...
13: ...e Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[Muromian]]s and...
15: ...rope and was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia. - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ...ment]]), its way of thinking and fundamental [[doctrines]] such as [[monotheism]], and the belief in a...
12: ...sgiving]]. Christians initially adopted the Greek translations of the Jewish scriptures (the [[Septuag...
29: ...ws. In Acts 10:44ff Peter baptized [[Cornelius]] (traditionally held to be the first Gentile convert) ...
52: === Early controversies ===
54: Disputes of doctrine began early on. The newly-organised church org... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
45: ...'the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottoman]] name...
47: ...s with the [[Caliphate]], the Islamic State. In [[1453]], after the Ottomans [[Fall of Constantinople|ca...
53: ... [[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[...
55: ...[spice]] trade. In Aceh, the Ottomans built a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlan...
57: ...lemate with their European and Asian neighbor countries, the European development went into overdrive.... - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
5: == Construction ==
7: ...me site during the 4th century. Following the destruction of the first church, a second was built by ...
10: ...ius, however, died within the first year. The construction is described in [[Procopius]]' ''On Buildin...
20: ...e dome is carried on [[pendentive]]s-four concave triangular sections of masonry which solve the probl...
22: At the western (entrance) and eastern (liturgical) ends, the arched op... - Konya (2390 bytes)
1: ...'''Iconium''') is a city in [[Turkey]], on the central plateau of [[Anatolia]]. It has a population of...
7: ...nce from [[1205]] to [[1239]] when the sultans controlled all of Anatolia, [[Armenia]], some of the [[...
9: ...aramanid fell to the [[Ottoman Empire]] and, in [[1453]], Konya was made the provincial capital of the O... - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
1: ...ntury]] until the fall of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]]. (The Roman Empire during this period is conven...
3: ...]], [[Russia]] and other [[Eastern Orthodox]] countries to the present day.
5: ==Introduction==
7: ...Greece (see [[Greek art]]), and at least before [[1453]] never lost sight of its classical heritage, but...
9: ...ated from the [[4th century BC]] onwards. But the triumph of Christianity brought with it a sexual con... - Byzantine coinage (4605 bytes)
4: ...ont) of these coins featured a highly stylized portrait of the emperor while the reverse (back) featur...
6: ...mon in the seventh through ninth centuries. Small transactions were conducted with bronze coinage thro...
9: ...Image:ByzantineBillonTrachy.jpg|thumb|left|Billon trachy of [[Andronicus I]], [[12th century]]]]
10: ...the silver Dinar (weight roughly 1.5g) which was struck in imitation of the Roman Denarius which widel...
12: ...lation until the end of the Byzantine Empire in [[1453]], though after the second half of the fourteenth... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
5: ...o be known as the [[Patriarch of Constantinople|Patriarch of New Rome]], was elevated to the same rank...
9: ...y fell to the [[Ottoman Empire]] on [[May 29]], [[1453]], during the reign of Constantine Paleologos (&#...
14: * [[Patriarch of Constantinople]] - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
2: ... [[Early Modern]] period that preceded the [[Industrial Revolution]].
8: ... has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotypes associated with the phrase, but...
10: ...t. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise of il...
14: ...d a new model for society. The centralised administrative systems of the Romans did not withstand the ...
16: ...e urban control of bishops and the territorial control exercised by dukes and counts. The rise of urba...
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