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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...aval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
22: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]]) - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]...
3: ...explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the ...
5: ...ess than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe...
7: ...s of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United Stat...
9: ...he first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...z|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
18: *[[Mehmet Ali Agca|Agca, Mehmet Ali]], (born 1958), failed assassin of [[...
19: ...gee|Agee, James]], (fl. early 20th century), American poet
28: ...yes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon
32: ...amin Agosto|Agosto, Benjamin]], (born 1982), American skater - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
1: ...t]] of King [[Richard III of England]] [[1483]]-[[1485]].
5: ...e and her elder [[sister]], [[Isabella Neville]], came into contact with the younger [[son]]s of [[Ric...
11: ...' titles and properties (a large portion of which came to them from their mother, Anne Beauchamp).
15: ...al home in the familiar surroundings of Middleham Castle, Richard having been appointed Governor of th...
21: ...d, probably of [[tuberculosis]], on [[March 16]], 1485, at [[Westminster Abbey|Westminster]], where she ... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...ghting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] cause. (This was ironic, as Edward IV was the Yorki...
10: ...eth Woodville became common knowledge, it was the cause of considerable rancour on Warwick's part, and...
12: ...ry wealthy. The queen also married her sister, [[Catherine Woodville]], to her 11-year-old ward [[Hen...
16: ... Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
18: ...zabeth now lost the title of Queen Mother and was called The Dame Elizabeth Grey. She and her other c... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...orians accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost no...
8: ...and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, ar...
13: ... crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...was called Jesus ([[Matthew 1:21|Matt. 1:21]]), because he was to save his people from their sins. Th...
17: ...he dead body of her son is a common motif in art, called a [[piet?. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...f European history]] into three 'ages': the Classical civilization of [[Antiquity]], the Middle Ages, ...
6: ...prising artistic sophistication, though its political and social senses were unevolved and its technol...
8: ... this connection too was lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanishe...
12: ...changes, and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared.
14: ...ple such as the [[Vikings]] were still capable of causing major disruption to the newly emerging socie... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
2: ...n(do) Cortés, marqués del Valle de Oaxaca''' ([[1485]]–[[December 2]], [[1547]]) was the [[conqu...
5: ...[Francisco Pizarro]], who later conquered the [[Inca]] empire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confus...
7: Cortés took classes at [[Salamanca]] but bitterly disappointed his parents by return...
10: ...d so well in the conquest of the [[Canary Islands|Canaries]] (eliminating the indigenous [[Guanches]])...
12: - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
31: *[[Rodolphus Agricola]], (1443-1485){{fn|R}}
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
2: ... three 'ages': the [[Classical civilization|classical civilization]] of [[Antiquity]], the Middle Ages...
4: ... aevus'', is spelled '''''medieval''''' in [[American English]] and sometimes '''''mediaeval''''' or '...
8: ...prising artistic sophistication, though its political and social senses were unevolved and its technol...
10: ... this connection too was lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanishe...
14: ...changes, and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared. - Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
3: ...ormation]]s in Scotland and England. Major historical events in Medi�val British history include the...
5: ...ain in two distinct phases of cultural and political history.
10: ... that had fought the Romans to a standstill for decades and been conquered only with great effort were...
12: ...rding to the [[Venerable Bede]], the British king called upon two Germanic tribal leaders from Europe ...
14: ... involved in the conquest are very difficult to locate. In general, however, Bede's evidence is accept... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...t phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas]].
4: ...warded the title of ''Marqués del Valle de [[Oaxaca]]'', while the more prestigious title of [[New Sp...
6: ...és as an individual. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simpl...
10: ...z''' ({{IPA-es|kɔrˈtɛθ|IPA}}), in his time he called himself ''Hernando'' or ''Fernando Cortés''....
14: ... Lord of Monroy]], and wife Mencía de Orellana y Carvajal.
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