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15th century illustration from the Old French translation of William of Tyre's Histoire d ' Outremer.
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I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.
The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.
Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.
An alphabetic cuneiform script with 30 signs including three which indicate the following vowel was invented in Ugarit before the 15th century BC.
The Hittites smelted rather brittle iron from the 15th century BC and the new metal was introduced in Greece.
Kingdom of Portugal's explorers and settlers, founded trading posts and forts along the coast of Africa since the 15th century, and reached the Angolan coast in the 16th century.
The Anatolian beyliks were in turn absorbed into the rising Ottoman Empire during the 15th century.
Grace O ' Malley's Castle Kildamhnait Castle is a 15th century tower house associated with the O ' Malley Clan, who were once a ruling family of Achill.
Late 14th and 15th century pottery from central Arizona, widely traded in the region, has colors and designs which may derive from earlier ware by both Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples.
St. Dominic of Silos enthroned as abbot ( Hispano-Flemish Gothic 15th century )
In the 15th century, the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg compiled the Zij-i-Sultani, in which he catalogued 1, 019 stars.
A long series of cultural development culminated in the expansion of the Inca civilization and Inca Empire in the central Andes during the 15th century.
Cam., also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli, ( 1386 – October 20, 1439 ) was an Italian monk and theologian, who was a prime supporter of the papal cause in the 15th century.
This was an order that had been founded by Giovanni Scarpa at the end of the 15th century.
The European acceptance of the numerals was accelerated by the invention of the printing press, and they became widely known during the 15th century.
Another very concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described by very few bits of information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.
The Ark carried into the Temple from the early 15th century Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Early plate in Italy, and elsewhere in the 13th – 15th century were made of iron.
Plate armour became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labour and labour had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms.
In the early 15th century, advances in weaponry allowed infantry to defeat armoured knights on the battlefield.
If during the 14 – 15th centuries armour seldom weighed more than 15 kg, then by the late 16th century it weighed 25 kg.
The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.
The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.
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Making pasta ; illustration from the 15th century edition of Tacuinum Sanitatis, a Latin translation of the Arabic work Taqwīm al-sihha by Ibn Butlan.
In the case of Scotland, use of a blue background for the Saint Andrew's Cross is said to date from at least the 15th century, with the first certain illustration of a flag depicting such appearing in Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount's Register of Scottish Arms, circa 1542.
During the 15th century, a war with the count palatine of the Rhine deprived the Margrave Charles I ( died 1475 ) of a part of his territories, but these losses were more than repaired by his son and successor, Christophe I of Baden ( illustration, right ).
Landini playing a miniature organ ( illustration from the 15th century Squarcialupi Codex )
15th century manuscript illustration of astronomy as one of the seven liberal arts, showing Ptolemy as its patron.
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* Croydon Palace: the summer residence of the Archbishops from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
The Abencerrages ( from the Arabic for " Saddler's Son "), were a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Moorish kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.
The Arawaks inhabited the islands until the 15th century when they were displaced by the more aggressive Caribs, a tribe from the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea is named.
* Middle Bulgarian ( 12th to 15th century ) – a literary norm that evolved from the earlier Old Bulgarian, after major innovations were accepted.
The Sultanate of Brunei, during its golden age from the 15th century to the 17th century, ruled a large part of northern Borneo.
The collection of prints covers the tradition of fine printmaking from its beginnings in the 15th century up to the present, with near complete holdings of most of the great names before the 19th century.
The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.
The period of Angkor is the period from approximately the latter half of the 8th century AD to the first half of the 15th century.
In terms of the 2008 Environmental Performance Index ranking, Costa Rica is 5th in the world, up from the 15th place in 2006.
The period from the 15th to the 17th centuries was marked by bitter struggles with the Ottoman Empire.
The manilla rings of West Africa were one of the currencies used from the 15th century onwards to buy and sell slaves.
The market cross in Bath Street dates from the 15th century, with the shelter having been rebuilt in 1834.
The English noun commonwealth in the sense meaning " public welfare ; general good or advantage " dates from the 15th century.
In the Age of Exploration, from the 15th century to the 17th century, European cartographers both copied earlier maps ( some of which had been passed down for centuries ) and drew their own based on explorers ' observations and new surveying techniques.
* Spanish colonization of the Americas, the period of history of Spanish rule over most of the Americas, from the 15th century through the late 19th century
By the 15th century calico from Gujarat made its appearance in Egypt.
The name " Caribbean " is derived from the Caribs, one of the dominant American Indian groups in the region at the time of European contact during the late 15th century.
The word caddie comes from the gascon Occitan capdèth or capdet, meaning chief then younger boy ( became cadet in French and refers to the Cadets de Gascogne: the captains serving in the French army in the 15th century who were the youngest sons of the aristocratic families of Gascony ).
The shape of the diacritic developed from initially resembling today's acute accent to a long flourish by the 15th century.
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