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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr... - Steel (28384 bytes)
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32: ...copper-smelting sites on the [[Sinai Peninsula]], dated to about 3000 BC. Some iron oxides are effect...
34: ...] died in [[1323 BC]] and was buried with an iron dagger with a golden hilt. An [[Ancient Egyptian]] [...
36: ...that warfare and mass migrations beginning around 1200 BC disrupted the regional tin trade, forcing a sw...
40: ...artifact is a knife found on [[Cyprus]] at a site dated to [[1100 BC]]. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
3: ==Ada==
4: === Adac - Adal ===
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and ...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
3: ...n of Jerusalem]] [[1192]]–1205. She was the daughter of [[Amalric I of Jerusalem]] and his secon...
23: ... (born [[1200]]), and one son, Amalric ([[1201]]–1205). King Amalric died in 1205, shortly befor...
25: ...er death in 1205, she was succeeded by her eldest daughter [[Maria of Montferrat]].
28: ...'[[Amalric II of Jerusalem|Amalric II]]''', 1197–1205)}} - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...[1729]] - [[November 6]], [[1796]] ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]])), born ''Sophie Augusta Fredericka'', kn...
5: ...osed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on current events in Russia and the rest of Eur...
9: ...eccaria-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine d...
25: ...ince Nassau, had 32 larger and 200 smaller ships, 1200 guns, and 14,000 men; the Swedes, commanded by Gu... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
19: ...rotubules pull the chromatids apart, so that each daughter cell inherits one set of chromatids. Once t...
90: <td>~1200</td>
191: ...some 4. It is characterized by severe growth retardation and mental defect.
192: ...asymmetrical skull, slanting eyes and mental retardation.
193: ...osome 18. Symptoms include mental and motor retardation. - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...f the Holy Wisdom]] in former [[Constantinople]]—the image of Christ on the walls of the upper s...
27: ...f artwork was destroyed; so little remains that today any discovery sheds new understanding. After 843...
29: ...ainting]] did not appear untill around 1200 (this date has many qualifications), when it diverged from...
85: **[[Dancing in the Middle Ages]] ([[Dance]]) - Pottery (17136 bytes)
2: ...ttery that is fired at temperatures in the 800 to 1200 [[Celsius|?C]] range, which does not vitrify in t...
8: ... remains of non-literate cultures and help in the dating of some historic cultures as well.
21: ...y virtually identical plates, vases or bowls in a day. Because of its nature, wheel work can only be u...
50: ..., as the kiln must be stoked for as long as a few days, but the pieces which emerge often have charact...
52: The western adaptation of [[Raku]] firing, a traditional [[Japane... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...ing this time included basalt, diorite (a type of dark, coarse-grained stone), sandstone, and alabaste...
25: ...ean]] civilization covers the time period of 3000-1200 BC, during the [[Bronze Age]], in the area of the...
27: ...re found together in a single grave on [[Keros]], dating from 2700 - 2750 BC.
42: ...o Santi|Raphael]] also sculpted a statue called ''David''. Most sculptures during the Renaissance were... - Silk (8683 bytes)
25: ... made of it outlast those made of ordinary silk — commonly lasting fifty years or more.
27: ... and is, therefore, more comfortable to wear. Nowadays, it is mainly sought after for the highest-qual...
60: ...f Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200''. Oxford University Press. - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
7: ... Consequently, there may be discrepancies between dates shown here and in articles on particular ruler...
9: ...onventional Chronology” that is quoted by [[David Rohl]] in ''A Test of Time'' (1995, Century).
11: All dates are [[BC]].
16: * The dates of Dynasties 1 to 10 are from Baines and Malek...
17: * The dates of Dynasties 11 to 20 are from Kitchen, "The B... - Finland (29511 bytes)
53: ...0–500 BC) and [[Iron Age]] (500 BC–AD 1200) were characterized by extensive contacts with [[...
57: ...in domestic Swedish debate and in Russian propaganda promising "liberation from Swedish oppression".
61: ...o Aunus]] complicated the relations. The Finnish–Russian border was agreed on only with the [[Tr...
67: ... was followed by the [[Lapland War]] of [[1944]]–[[1945]], when Finland forced the Germans out o...
71: ...e [[Urho Kekkonen|President Kekkonen]] ([[1956]]–[[1981|81]]), used their relations with the Kre... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...orders the states of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to...
6: ...5;سرائيل<br>("Dawlat Israil") |
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[May...
60: ...Emperor [[Hadrian]] renamed ''Provincia [[Judea|Judaea]]'' to ''Provincia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Gr...
62: ...he [[Mishnah]] and [[Jerusalem Talmud]], two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were compose... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...and [[Ethiopia]] to the east, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]] to the southeast, [[Democratic Republic of the ...
8: ...ودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-Sudan |
9: common_name = Sudan |
10: image_flag = Sudan flag large.png |
11: image_coat = Sudan coa.png | - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
39: established_events = • Date |
40: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[August 6]], [[1825]] |
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59: ...tern lowlands and the [[Mollos]] north of present-day [[La Paz]] also developed advanced agricultural ... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
7: .... Iron's hardness, high melting point and the abundance of [[iron ore]] sources made iron more desirab...
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]].
24: ...mahawk]](铁刃青铜钺)dating back to [[14th century BC]] was excavated.Aft...
28: ...ceeding 500 years. In the Netherlands, a starting date from about [[800 BC]] is generally accepted. Th... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
23: ...script]] may have evolved independently, around [[1200 BC]].
33: <tr><td>Abugida</td><td>consonant+vowel, vowel</td><td>Devanagari...
45: ...n western logograms are the [[Arabic numerals]] — everyone who uses those symbols understands wh...
47: ...nese characters are often [[semantics|semantic]]–[[phonetic]] compounds, symbols which include a...
56: ...e their common "k"-ness. Compare [[#Abugidas|abugida]], where each [[grapheme]] typically represents a... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ...al Commission on Stratigraphy]], and uses the standard color codes of the [[United States Geologic Sur...
3: ...ch as [[mass extinction]]s. For example, the boundary between the [[Cretaceous]] period and the [[Pal...
9: ...he same timespan is split into [[Tommotian]], [[Atdabanian]] and [[Botomian]] stages in [[East Asia]] ...
15: ... the Earth's crust into four types: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary. Each type of rock, ...
17: ..., the sequence of geological periods still used today. - Civilization (29205 bytes)
11: Civilization can also mean the standard of behavior, similar to [[etiquette]]. "Civiliz...
28: ...lex institutions associated with civilizations. Today, many tribal societies live inside states and un...
34: ...uced the earliest known [[pottery]] in the world, dating to the [[11th millennium BC]]. More stable li...
37: ...in the southwestern corner of Egypt, near the [[Sudan]] border, before [[8000 BC]]. Climate changes an...
44: ...and malachite beads. Around [[1500 BC|1500]] to [[1200 BC]] Jericho and other cities of [[Canaan]] had b... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...Viscount St Albans''' ([[January 22]], [[1561]] – [[April 9]], [[1626]]) was an [[England|Englis...
8: ...mber of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married ...
25: ...]ship fell vacant in 1594 and Bacon became a candidate for the office, Lord Essex's influence could no...
29: ...of Essex,'' etc. He received a gift of a fine of ?1200 on one of Essex's accomplices.
31: ...ment session Bacon married [[Alice Barnham]], the daughter of a London merchant. Little or nothing is ...
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