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- Eudocia Macrembolitissa (2682 bytes)
1: ...manus IV]]. She was also the niece of [[Michael Cerularius]], [[Patriarch of Constantinople]], whose s...
3: ...e's brother John Ducas. Michael was old enough to rule on his own, but nevertheless was considered co-...
5: ...ing danger. She had two sons with Romanus, Nicephorus and Leo. They too were crowned co-emperors, alon...
7: Michael was deposed in [[1078]] by [[Nicephorus III]], who recalled Eudocia and offered to marry...
13: ...e Empresses: Woman and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204''. Routledge, 1999. - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
1: [[Image:Messalinde-Jerusalem.JPG|frame|A queen accepting fealty from a va...
3: ..., [[1161]]) was [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|Queen of Jerusalem]] from [[1131]] to [[1153]].
5: ...d [[Ioveta of Bethany|Ioveta]], abbess of St. Lazarus in [[Bethany (Israel)|Bethany]].
9: ...1169]]), and [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]] ([[1121]]-[[1204]]). Melisende's authority was not passed over for...
11: ...de enjoyed the support of the ''[[Haute Cour of Jerusalem|Haute Cour]]'', a kind of royal council comp... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ..., [[France]], c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]], [[1204]] in [[Fontevrault]], [[Anjou]]) was one of the w...
10: ...lliam wrote up a will on the very day he died instructing that his daughter marry [[Louis VII of Franc...
12: ...aunch of the [[Second Crusade]] from V麥lay, the rumored location of [[Mary Magdalene]]'s burial, dra...
14: ...e Turks attacked and slaughtered as many as 7000 Crusaders. As this decision was made by Eleanor's ser...
16: ...ttack. Failing in this attempt, they retired to Jerusalem, and then home. - Greece (54754 bytes)
65: ...enians, all parts of Greece were united under the rule of [[Alexander the Great]] and aimed at the def...
72: ...eventh century progressed, much of Greece was overrun by Slavic peoples from the north, and a period o...
80: ...ading epochs between 1204 to 1458, Greece was overrun by warrings Byzantines, French and Italian knigh...
87: ...Christians, who dealt with the burdens of foreign rule, or to a considerable extent Crypto-Christians ...
90: ...f the decaying empire by the western powers. The Russian ex-minister of foreign affairs, [[Ioannis Ka... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
1: {{Crusade}}
2: ...[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crusades]].
4: ...e#Usage of the term "crusade"|Usage of the term "crusade"]].
7: ...tried to stem this violence with the [[Peace and Truce of God]] movements, forbidding violence against...
9: [[Image:crusades.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration provided by [ht... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
37: | [[1204]]
38: | Constantinople is occupied by crusaders; Latin empire formed.
51: ... as "Imperium Graecorum", "Graecia", "Terra Graecorum" or even "Imperium Constantinopolitanus".
70: ...e. He split the Empire in half, with two emperors ruling from Italy and Greece, each having a co-emper...
74: ...is capital in Constantinople, and Honorius became ruler in the west, with his capital in [[Ravenna]]. ... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...a'', a military camp, in turn the plural of ''castrum'' or watchpost), is a [[fort]], a [[camp]] and t...
17: ...Norman Conquest]], for example, Norman lords constructed castles across England to impress, control an...
30: By their very nature they were very permanent structures and many survive through to the modern day;...
42: ... of range of attack and wait for the internees to run out of either food or water. Offensive technique...
48: ...y can ... Round the summit of the mound they construct a palisade of timber to act as a wall. Inside t... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ... described as the [[Roman Republic]], since the structure of the power in that age was the one of a re...
5: ...of the Empire into two halves. This allowed Roman rule to continue for two more centuries over the who...
11: ...of Bulgarian monarchs]]), the [[History of Russia|Russian/Kiev]] dynasties (see [[tsar|czars]]), and t...
17: ...ury]] and Rome had been effectively under one-man rule since the time of [[Lucius Cornelius Sulla|Sull...
19: ...ten the republic - now placidly accepted one man rule. - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...major sea power and a [[staging area]] for the [[Crusade]]s, as well as a very important center of com...
8: ...ere laid: the [[Venetian Arsenal]] was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of the [[Bre...
10: ...ands in the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]], including [[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]], and became a major power-broker...
12: ...with Venetian aid) seized [[Constantinople]] in [[1204]] and established the [[Latin Empire]]. Considera...
14: The Venetian governmental structure was a mix of Byzantine and [[Islam|Islamic]]... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
3: ...t, defending the Islamic world against [[Crusade|Crusaders]] from the West, and conquering the [[Byzan...
7: ...he centuries following Malik Shah's death, the [[Crusade]]s prevented them from regaining their former...
9: ===Rulers of Great Seljuk [[1037]]-[[1157]]===
15: * Rukn ad-Din [[Barkiyaruq]] [[1094]]-[[1105]]
29: ===Seljuk Rulers of Kerman [[1041]]-[[1187]]=== - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
7: ==Design and construction==
9: ...ect]]s were [[Iktinos]] and [[Kallikrates]]. Construction began in [[447 BC]] and the building was sub...
13: ...e, with internal Doric colonnades in two tiers, structurally necessary to support the roof. On the ext...
27: ...sack of the city during the [[Fourth Crusade]] in 1204.
33: ...the building was partly destroyed. The internal structures were demolished, whatever was left of the r... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
5: ...h [[Portugal]]) or in [[Porto]]. The son of Pedro Rui de Magalh㥳, the mayor of the town, and Alda de...
24: ...at [[Antwerp (province)|Antwerp]] firm who had a grudge against the king of Portugal. On [[March 22]],...
39: ...in the season, however, and the southern winter struck while they were still on the [[Argentina|Argent...
53: ...g northwest, the crew reached the equator on [[February 13]], [[1521]]. On [[March 6]], they reached t...
57: ...lled our mirror, our light, our comfort, and our true guide. When they wounded him, he turned back man... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
120: *[[Averroes]] (or ''Ibn Rushd''), (1126-1198){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
158: *[[Bruno Bauer]], (1809-1882){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
231: *[[Rudjer Boscovich]], (1711-1787){{fn|C}}
257: *[[Constantin Brunner]], (1862-1937)
258: *[[Emil Brunner]], (1889-1966){{fn|R}} - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
5: == Construction ==
7: ...e site during the 4th century. Following the destruction of the first church, a second was built by [...
10: ...us, however, died within the first year. The construction is described in [[Procopius]]' ''On Building...
24: The structure has been severely damaged several times by [...
26: ...orphyry (geology)|porphyry]] and gold mosaics, encrusted upon the brick. On the exterior, simple stucc... - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
3: ...artistic tradition has continued in [[Greece]], [[Russia]] and other [[Eastern Orthodox]] countries to...
13: ...line in artistic skills and standards, and it is true that some of the technical expertise of the clas...
19: ...sing of artistic skill to the service of the one true religion, rather than using it for the productio...
27: ...s the last Emperor to see himself as the rightful ruler of the whole Greco-Roman world, and devoted mu...
29: ...''' (see [[Iconoclasm]]), which lasted, with interruptions, until [[843]]. - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
7: ...aptured and sacked by the [[Fourth Crusade]] in [[1204]] (April 12), and then re-captured by [[Nicaean E...
18: * the [[Bosphorus]] - Praseodymium (9138 bytes)
53: | [[Crystal structure]]
62: | 1204 [[Kelvin|K]] (1707.8 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]]) - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
6: ...emperor)|Constantine I]] the Great (AD 272 - 337, ruled [[306]] - [[337]])
7: *[[Constantius II]] (317 - 361, ruled [[337]] - [[361]]) – son of Constantine ...
8: *[[Julian]] the Apostate (331 - 363, ruled [[361]] - [[363]]) – son in-law of Const...
11: *[[Jovian]] (332 - 364, ruled [[363]] - [[364]]) – soldier under Julia...
14: *[[Valens]] (328-378, ruled [[364]] - [[378]]) - brother of [[Western Roma... - Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
3: ...ese language|Chinese]]'': 宋朝) was a ruling dynasty in [[China]] from [[960]]-[[1279]]. I...
7: The northern Jin dynasty was overrun by the [[Mongols]] in [[1234]], who subsequently...
12: ...ally appointed officials. This system of civilian rule led to a greater concentration of power in the ...
14: ... a unified tax system meant the development of a true nationwide market system.
20: ...gations of obedience and compliance of subject to ruler, child to father, wife to husband, and younger...
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