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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ..._columbus_99w.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]'''C...
2: ...er_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...round the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explo...
5: ...de (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first to reach the Ame...
10: ...C2_columbus21.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...ength|stronger]] than iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are ...
11: ... often emerge during this process, leading to a patterned layering known as [[pearlite]] due to its [[...
13: ...al composition. As such, it requires extremely little thermal [[activation energy]] to form.
17: ...y, these internal stresses can cause a part to shatter as it cools; at the very least, they cause inte...
19: ...ugh time for cementite, etc., to form) and help settle the internal stresses and defects. This soften... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
8: ...n Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
45: *[[Edwin Adams Cotto|Adams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was conv...
65: ...2-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
67: *[[Scott Adams|Adams, Scott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert... - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
5: ... their wedding night the castle of [[Kerak]] was attacked by the forces of [[Saladin]]. Humphrey's mot...
7: ...adin gave out orders throughout his army that no attack should be directed at this tower."''
11: ...m would be ruled by a regent. According to this settlement, both Sibylla and Isabella were considered ...
15: The provisions of Baldwin IV's settlement were ignored. Sibylla was crowned as queen ...
23: ...) and [[Melisende of Lusignan|Melisende]] (born [[1200]]), and one son, Amalric ([[1201]]–1205). K... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ... and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Elizabeth of Holstein]]. In [[1744]], Tsarin...
21: ...mpire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792|sec...
25: ...em not faced by the anchored Swedish ships. At battle's end, the Russians had lost 50 to 60 ships and... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
1: ...two chromatids touch, and where the microtubules attach. (3) Short arm. (4) Long arm.]]
19: ...at the [[centromere]]. Long [[microtubule]]s are attached at the centromere and two opposite ends of t...
82: <td>[[butterfly|Butterflies]]</td>
90: <td>~1200</td>
185: ... as have a small number of [[unclonable]] gaps. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/] - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
27: ... the vast majority of artwork was destroyed; so little remains that today any discovery sheds new unde...
29: ... [[Gothic painting]] did not appear untill around 1200 (this date has many qualifications), when it dive...
38: ***[[Pottery]]
98: **[[Sutton Hoo]] - Pottery (17136 bytes)
1: ...akingpottery.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A man shapes pottery as it turns on a wheel. (Cappadocia, Turkey)]]
2: ...rous is often called [[earthenware]] or [[terra cotta]]. Clay formulated to be fired at higher temper...
4: ... electronic parts and [[Space Shuttle]] tiles. Pottery is both an ancient and modern [[technology]], ...
6: ...a potter. The potter's most basic tool is the [[potter's wheel]].
8: ...decoration. The relative chronologies based on pottery are essential for dating the remains of non-li... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...k to Prehistoric times. Most [[Stone Age]] statuettes were made of ivory or soft stone, however some ...
6: ...nlays. [[Clay]] was used for pottery and terra cotta sculpture. Stone was generally rare and had to ...
16: ...|Palette]] of King Narmer, from 3100 BC. The palette, which was used for mixing eye make-up, was carv...
25: ...ean]] civilization covers the time period of 3000-1200 BC, during the [[Bronze Age]], in the area of the...
27: ...east of [[Athens]]. Cycladic culture developed pottery, often decorated with rectangular, circular, o... - Silk (8683 bytes)
1: ...right|thumb|250px|Silk Worms. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
11: ...eached [[Korea]] around [[200 BC]] with Chinese settlers, about the first half of the 1st century AD i...
12: ...50px|Spinning Silk, Thailand. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
27: In addition, it absorbs moisture better than ordinary silk and is, therefore, more comf...
30: ...ensively in silk and encouraged silk growers to settle in Italy. By the 13th century Italian silk was ... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
9: ...dates proposed by these two authors. There is no attempt to remove this in the combined chronology pre...
15: * Predynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynas...
20: ...Egypt for Universities], which was developed by [http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/ The Petrie Museum of Egy...
241: *Amenmesse (Menmire) 1203-1200
242: *Seti II (Userkheperure-setepenre) 1200-1194 - Finland (29511 bytes)
12: | align=center colspan=2 | <small>''National [[motto]]: None''</small>
24: ... Ministers of Finland|Prime minister]]''': || [[Matti Vanhanen]]
51: ...t [[Mesolithic]] settlers. The arrival of the [[Battle-Axe]] Culture (or Cord-Ceramic Culture) in Sout...
53: ...sia]] and the Baltic region. There is not much written information of Finnish history before the 13th ...
59: ...c]], the [[Kalevala]], in [[1835]]; and Finnish getting a legally equal status with Swedish in [[1892]... - Israel (51605 bytes)
10: national_motto = n/a |
60: ...Judah|Jewish kingdoms and states]] existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium until th...
66: === Caliphate, Crusades, and the Ottoman Empire ===
68: ...sades|Crusaders]], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the...
73: ...ions]] transferred control of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire to the [[United Kingdom]] as a mandate... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
12: national_motto = Al-Nasr Lana ([[Arabic language|Arab...
60: ...t in feudal Sudan. Important kingdoms in the next 1200 years include [[Makuria]] and the [[Kingdom of Se...
62: ...]], the self-proclaimed [[Mahdi]] ([[Messiah]]), attempted to unify the tribes of western and central ...
72: ...ties, access to basic health care services, and little prospects for productive employment in the smal...
74: ...[[Darfur]], during which time the government committed terrible atrocities. In February [[2004]], the ... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
13: national_motto = ''Morir antes que esclavos vivir''<br>([[Engli...
59: ...tural]] techniques before it disappeared around [[1200]] A.D., probably because of extended [[drought]]....
85: ...wers in the Chapare region. The policy produced little net reduction in coca, and in the mid-1990s Bol...
103: ...dash; social divisions, a radical opposition committed to extra-parliamentary action, and an ongoing f...
156: ...ofits. The continuing legal battle has attracted attention from anti-globalization and anti-capitalist... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
10: ...y the metallurgy of the time. By [[1600 BC]] to [[1200 BC]], iron was used increasingly in the [[Middle ...
13: ...ory of iron and steelmaking]]), dating to circa [[1200 BC]].
27: [[image:Roman statuette of bronze from Swedssh Iron age, found at ֬and ...
31: ... ascriptions of many Iron age cultures has been bitterly contested, as the roots of Germanii and Slavs...
34: ... generally divided in the early Iron Age [[Hallstatt culture]] (HaC and D, [[800 BC|800]]-[[450 BC|450... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
23: ...script]] may have evolved independently, around [[1200 BC]].
41: A '''logogram''' is a single written character which represents a complete grammatic...
56: ... an entire word, a '''syllabary''' is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) [[sylla...
67: ...rived from [[alpha (letter)|alpha]] and [[beta (letter)|beta]], the first two symbols of the [[Greek a...
69: ...neral rules that govern the association between letters and phonemes, but, depending on the language, ... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
15: ...th century. The most influential of those early attempts (championed by [[Abraham Werner]], among oth...
23: ...ct of considerable debate until advances in the latter part of the 20th century allowed [[radioactive ...
81: ...3" | Gymnosperms (especially [[conifer]]s, [[Bennettitales]] and [[cycad]]s) and [[fern]]s common. Ma...
199: | style="background:#DDC288" | 1200 <sup>6</sup>
262: ... The stage nomenclature is quite complex. See [http://flatpebble.nceas.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?ac... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
5: ...ribal]] societies in which people live in small settlements or nomadic groups and make their [[subsist...
11: ...mean the standard of behavior, similar to [[etiquette]]. "Civilized" behavior is contrasted with "barb...
19: ...ring of these non-food producers into permanent settlements, called [[city|cities]].
28: ...griculture, irrigation, and permanent, communal settlements such as [[Taos Pueblo|Taos]]. However, the...
34: ...s, ''the earliest forms of farming are sometimes attributed to Japan (Ingpen & Wilkinson) in [[10th mi... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
21: ... himself seriously to the study of law, until admitted as an [[outer barrister]] in 1582. In 1584 he t...
25: ...s for a time excluded from the court. When the [[attorney-general]]ship fell vacant in 1594 and Bacon ...
29: ...of Essex,'' etc. He received a gift of a fine of ?1200 on one of Essex's accomplices.
31: ...e Barnham]], the daughter of a London merchant. Little or nothing is known of their married life: mode...
35: ...d to stay, but a law was passed that forbade the attorney-general to sit in parliament -- and to the v...
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