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  1. Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
    12: ... of Westminster]], was born, on [[October 13]], [[1453]], he had suffered a complete mental breakdown. ...
    14: ...or]]. In [[1459]], hostilities resumed at the [[battle of Blore Heath]], where Margaret is said to hav...
    16: ...o [[York]], she gained a major success at the [[Battle of Wakefield]] on December 30, [[1460]], when t...
    18: ...461]], the Lancastrian army was beaten at the [[Battle of Towton]] by Richard's son, [[Edward IV of En...
    20: ...rgaret was forced to lead her own army at the [[Battle of Tewkesbury]] in [[1471]], at which they were...
  2. Renaissance (14795 bytes)
    10: ...[periodization|periodisation]], [[Lumpers and splitters]])
    23: ... the [[fall of Constantinople]] to the Turks in [[1453]]. It was a turning point in warfare as [[cannon]...
    32: ...example [[Rucellai's Palazzo]] built by [[Leone Battista Alberti]]. Of [[Filippo Brunelleschi|Brunelle...
    36: ..., [[Tommaso Masaccio|Masaccio]], etc. Even he admitted he had no explanation of why it happened.
    49: ...th little explanatory power. Surely it would be better, more human and accessible to understand the ci...
  3. Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
    1: ...3.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]The ...
    6: ...tern Europe]], its territories were entered and settled by succeeding waves of "[[barbarian]]" tribal ...
    8: ...ies that depended on trade, such as large-scale pottery manufacture, vanished almost overnight in plac...
    12: ... and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared.
    14: ...ond these areas of Europe were many people with little or no contact with Christianity or with classic...
  4. Medieval art (6359 bytes)
    27: ...covery sheds new understanding. After 843 until [[1453]] there is a clear Byzantine art tradition. It wa...
    38: ***[[Pottery]]
    98: **[[Sutton Hoo]]
  5. Printing press (12986 bytes)
    16: ...s Europe. Within thirty years of its invention in 1453, towns from Hungary to Spain, and from Italy to B...
    29: ...ful. It was suddenly important who had said or written what, and what the precise formulation and time...
    37: Some theorists, such as McLuhan, Eisenstein, Kittler, and Giesecke, see an "alphabetic monopoly" as...
    40: ...gely been lost, due to advances in computer typesetting programs, which make it possible to get simila...
    45: ...team power]]ed press is credited to [[Friedrich Gottlob K?]] and [[Andreas Friedrich Bauer]] in [[1812...
  6. Greece (54754 bytes)
    1: ...he Island of Myconos, Greece. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]'''G...
    11: | colspan=2 align=center | <small>''National [[motto]]:'' &#917;&#923;&#917;&#933;&#920;&#917;&#929;&...
    29: ...p;- Declared<br>&nbsp;- Recognised || From the [[Ottoman Empire]]<br/>[[25 March]] [[1821]]<br/>[[1829...
    57: ...fter the accented vowel-->. This name is also written as ''Hellas'' in English, following the [[ancie...
    65: ... [[Greek alphabet|new alphabet]] was introduced.[http://www.mfa.gr/english/greece/living/read_greek/al...
  7. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    108: *[[Yoannis XI of Alexandria]], ([[1428]]-[[1453]]), Coptic Pope
    125: *[[Charlotte Mary Yonge|Yonge, Charlotte M]], ([[1823]]-[[1901]]), British novelist
    157: *[[Francis Brett Young|Young, Francis Brett]], (1884-1954), British novelist
    162: *[[James Young|Young, James]], (1811?1883), Scottish chemist
    166: *[[John W. Young|Young, John Watts]], (b. 1930), US astronaut
  8. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    3: {{compactTOC5}}
    38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
    102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
    130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
    183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]])
  9. Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
    35: ...IV is defeated by the [[Seljuk Turks]] at the [[Battle of Manzikert]]. Most of Asia Minor is lost. T...
    43: | [[1453]]
    44: | Ottoman Turks take Constantinople. End of Byzantine E...
    51: ...formed empire, and in concert with the [[Pope]], attempted to legitimize their conquests by claiming i...
    57: ... the East and ended its thousand year history, in 1453, as a [[Greek Orthodox]] state: An empire that be...
  10. Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
    3: ...es) within the Anglo-French unit" that was both battlefield and prize (Braudel 1984 p. 353).
    8: ...e [[Vikings]] of [[Rollo of Normandy|Rollo]] to settle in a part of his kingdom known as [[Normandy]] ...
    27: ...d, and the [[homage]] for this possession was a matter more difficult to resolve. Philip VI wanted Edw...
    29: ... by King Edward and [[Edward Balliol]] at the [[Battle of Halidon Hill]] in July 1333.
    31: ...Edward had broken his oath (a [[felony]]) by not attending to the needs and demands of his lord. Edwar...
  11. Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
    3: ...eorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as [[Caesar Augustus]]). Although Rome a...
    5: ...known as the [[Byzantine Empire]], fell to the [[Ottoman Turks]].
    7: ... for such a long period of time [[31 BC]] &#8211; 1453, there are certain alternative names used by hist...
    17: ...h the constitutional settlement following the [[Battle of Actium]] in [[31 BC]]. In fact the Republica...
    47: ...liseum_rome.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
  12. Russia (28007 bytes)
    19: ...eless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted to colonize the region.
    23: ...territories. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less functional ...
    27: ... the Roman ''[[Caesar (title)|Caesar]]'', also written Czar) of Russia, finalized this process, consol...
    37: ...lared independence in the early 1990's, an intermittent guerrilla war has been fought between disparat...
    83: ...omede]] is separated by only a few miles from [[Little Diomede]], a part of the [[United States|US]] [...
  13. History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
    12: Christianity also continued many of the patterns found in Judaism at that time, such as adapti...
    54: ...wly-organised church organised councils to sort matters out. Councils representing the entire church w...
    73: ...d them as [[allegory]]; thus the orthodox branch attracted greater numbers of adherents. This was obse...
    80: ... Gentile converts, perhaps those who had not submitted to circumcision; [[Philo]] of Alexandria makes...
    84: ...tery religion originated, as it appears to have little to do with the [[Zoroastrian]] [[Mithra]]. Sinc...
  14. Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
    6: | [[Image:Ottoman Coat of Arms.jpg|Ottoman Coat of Arms]]
    8: | style="text-align: center;" | [[Ottoman Coat of Arms]]
    11: ...png|Map of the Ottoman Empire]]<br/><small>''The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power''</small>
    13: | '''[[Motto|Imperial motto]]'''
    14: ... ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra)
  15. Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
    14: ...agia Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art] ]]
    20: ... sections of masonry which solve the problem of setting the circular base of a dome on a rectangular b...
    32: ...tanbul, Ayasofya served as model for many of the Ottoman mosques of Constantinople such as the [[Shehz...
    33: ...ey-9303.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
    46: *[http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/bible/procopius.stm Contempor...
  16. Konya (2390 bytes)
    9: ...]], Konya was made the provincial capital of the Ottoman Province of Karamanid.
    11: Both [[Saladin]] and the Ottoman Sultan [[Selim II]] has built mosques in Kony...
    13: ...something of 'urban legends' in Turkey and have little reality to them).
    19: * [http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/konya_turkey Pictures o...
  17. Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
    1: ...ntury]] until the fall of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]]. (The Roman Empire during this period is conven...
    3: ... under the rule of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after [[1453]]. In some respects the Byzantine artistic tradit...
    7: ...Greece (see [[Greek art]]), and at least before [[1453]] never lost sight of its classical heritage, but...
    21: ...culpture, that the Byzantines lost the technical attainments of the ancients. In other areas they deve...
    37: ...m was no longer a great power - following the [[Battle of Manzikert]] in [[1071]] it lost most of its ...
  18. Byzantine coinage (4605 bytes)
    12: ...lation until the end of the Byzantine Empire in [[1453]], though after the second half of the fourteenth...
    14: ...[[685]]&ndash;[[695]] and [[705]]&ndash;[[711]]) attempted a restoration of the follis size of [[Justi...
    24: * Byzantine coinage by rulers: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/i.html
  19. Constantinople (4125 bytes)
    9: ...62;). (See the [[Fall of Constantinople]]). The Ottoman [[Turks]] called the city Stamboul or [[Istan...
    23: *[http://www.sephardicstudies.org/istanbul.html Info on...
    24: *[http://www2.arch.uiuc.edu/research/rgouster Welcome t...
  20. Medieval History (23198 bytes)
    2: ...3.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]The ...
    8: ...tern Europe]], its territories were entered and settled by succeeding waves of "[[barbarian]]" tribal ...
    10: ...ies that depended on trade, such as large-scale pottery manufacture, vanished almost overnight in plac...
    14: ... and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared.
    16: ...ond these areas of Europe were many people with little or no contact with Christianity or with classic...

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