73 résultats pour "1500"
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Spanish Empire.
Spain’s royal government quickly imposed its own officials, first to collect taxes and then to administer the colony. Its goal was to assert royal control over both settlersand indigenous peoples. In Spain the government established a House of Trade to supervise colonial affairs and to oversee, license, and tax all trade and commerce. Asthe royal government asserted more authority over colonial activities, Columbus lost effective power, and was eventually replaced by other colonial governors. Wi...
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Spanish Empire .
Spain’s royal government quickly imposed its own officials, first to collect taxes and then to administer the colony. Its goal was to assert royal control over both settlersand indigenous peoples. In Spain the government established a House of Trade to supervise colonial affairs and to oversee, license, and tax all trade and commerce. Asthe royal government asserted more authority over colonial activities, Columbus lost effective power, and was eventually replaced by other colonial governors. Wi...
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Seconde période du XIX' siècle
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Seconde période du XIX' siècle 11;80 11 0 1500 181o 18� 18�o 18�0 1870 18 � 0 18;0 18�0 18� 19?0 1910 19�0 19�0 1 19 1 1 1 1 1 1 Fr. Nietzsche (1844-1900) William James (1842-1910) Charles Sande� Peirce (1839-1914)...
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Lengua inglesa - idiomas.
El lingüista danés Otto Jespersen lo ha denominado la gran mutación vocálica; consistió en alterar la articulación de las vocales en relación con las posiciones de los labios yla lengua, que por lo general se elevó en un grado. Este hecho supuso que, de las 20 vocales que tenía el inglés medio, cambiaran 18. La escritura permaneció inalterable aconsecuencia de la aparición de la imprenta. Hasta entonces el inglés medio poseía una escritura más fonética; todas las consonantes se pronunciaban, mie...
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Mesoamérica - historia.
Entre el 5000 y el 3000 a.C. la agricultura como dedicación exclusiva reemplazó a la caza y la recolección en Mesoamérica, y la gente comenzó a vivir en pobladospermanentes. Algunas áreas con recursos naturales abundantes podían mantener poblaciones estables que no tenían que recurrir a la agricultura. Por ejemplo, en las tierrasbajas ribereñas del golfo de México y el océano Pacífico, la vida sedentaria se basaba en la pesca y el marisqueo. Algunas regiones montañosas —como el valle de México,m...
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The Four-Minute Mile.
The nervous runners false-started once before setting off cleanly. As planned, Chris Brasher led Bannister through the first half-mile. After a half lap (200 meters),Bannister called out to his teammate: “Faster! Faster!” Accelerating, the runners sped through the first quarter-mile in 57.5 seconds-ahead of pace. At 600 meters,Stampfl shouted from the infield: “Relax! Relax!” Running smoothly behind Brasher, Bannister reached the half-mile mark in 1 min 58.2 sec. Chataway sprinted into the l...
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Bérénice de RACINE
pathétique. - 1499-1504 : 1er élément du dénouement : Titus doit régner. Bérénice a compris qu'il n'était pas question d'amour (v.1499 : lafaiblesse de l'empereur s'avère être une redoutable preuve de cet amour) dans le choix de Titus mais de quelque chose de bienplus vaste (« univers malheureux » = Rome dans un effet d'élargissement et d'agrandissement) qui dépasse la simple passionamoureuse cherche à convaincre Titus de renoncer au suicide (« Bérénice (…) ne vaut…que de vos vertus il goûte le...
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imprimerie.
de 417 imprimeurs en 1500. En 1476, une grammaire grecque est imprimée entièrement en caractères grecs à Milan, et une Bible hébraïque est imprimée à Soncino en 1488. Également en 1476, l'imprimerie est introduite en Angleterre par William Caxton, tandis qu'en 1539 Juan Pablos installe une presse dans la ville de Mexico, apportant par là même l'imprimerie au Nouveau Monde. Les imprimeurs du nord de l'Europe produisent principalement des livres religieux, des bibles, des psautiers et des missels....
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was known not only as a masterful painter but as an architect, sculptor, engineer, and scientist.
and conservation program made use of the latest technology to reverse some of the damage. Although much of the original surface is gone, the majesty of thecomposition and the penetrating characterization of the figures give a fleeting vision of its vanished splendor. The Virgin of the RocksThe Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci was actually painted twice. The first version, done in 1485, wascommissioned to be an altarpiece but was evidently rejected. That painting now hangs in the Louvre,...
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gothique, art - peinture.
tendent vers une certaine rigueur formelle et un équilibre des proportions. Par exemple, les différents types de voûtements sont abandonnés pour ne retenir, à quelques exceptions près, que la voûte quadripartite sur travée barlongue. En plan, un transept saillant sépare la nef et le chevet d’égale importance, alors qu’en élévation les grandes arcades possèdent la même hauteur que les fenêtres hautes. L’élévation est à trois niveaux : grandes arcades, triforium et fenêtres hautes. Les supports so...
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gothique, art - sculpture.
tendent vers une certaine rigueur formelle et un équilibre des proportions. Par exemple, les différents types de voûtements sont abandonnés pour ne retenir, à quelques exceptions près, que la voûte quadripartite sur travée barlongue. En plan, un transept saillant sépare la nef et le chevet d’égale importance, alors qu’en élévation les grandes arcades possèdent la même hauteur que les fenêtres hautes. L’élévation est à trois niveaux : grandes arcades, triforium et fenêtres hautes. Les supports so...
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Geography - Geography.
Geographers have developed a standard pattern of map symbols for identifying such cultural features as homes, factories, and churches; dams, bridges, and tunnels;railways, highways, and travel routes; and mines, farms, and grazing lands. C Analyzing Geographic Information Techniques that use mathematics or statistics to analyze data are known as quantitative methods. The use of quantitative methods enables geographers to treat a largeamount of data and a large number of variables in an objectiv...
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Indian Literature
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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Indian author Arundhati Roy poses with a copy of her acclaimed first novel, The God of Small Things (1997).
Mathura BuddhaMany of the earliest texts of Indian literature were religious writings of Buddhism. This Buddha figure carved out ofsandstone is from Mathura, a city in northern India that was at the center of Buddhist sculptural activity from the 2ndcentury bc to the 6th century ad.Angelo Hornak/Corbis The sacred Vedas were composed in Old Sanskrit by Aryan poet-seers between about 1500 BC and about 1000 BC. The Vedas are compilations of two major literary forms: hymns of praise to nature deit...
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Fidel Castro.
result, Castro formed a radical branch of the Ortodoxo Party called the Radical Action Orthodox wing. This organization supported Chibás in the 1948 election. PrioSocarrás won the election, despite Castro’s efforts. After Chibás committed suicide in 1951, Castro believed he should become the leader of the Ortodoxo Party and ran for a seat in the Cuban House of Representatives inthe 1952 election. Before that election could occur, however, General Fulgencio Batista staged a bloodless coup d’etat...
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Hinduismus - Religion.
Leben geboren und wiedergeboren wird. Das Individuum ist als Welle im Meer des Samsara gedacht. Die menschliche Seele (Atman) kehrt so lange in die Welt zurück, bissie ihre Einheit mit dem Brahman erkannt hat. In welcher Form die neuerliche Verkörperung erfolgt, ist abhängig vom Karma, das jede Handlung nach sich zieht. Es wirktnach eigenen Gesetzen: Selbst die Götter unterliegen seiner zwingenden Kraft. Die Welt, die aus einem göttlichen Urgrund hervorgegangen ist und nach dem Ablauf einesWelte...
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Deutsche Literatur (Sprache & Litteratur).
Walther von der VogelweideDer mittelhochdeutsche Dichter Walther von der Vogelweide (um 1170 bis etwa 1230) ist einer der herausragenden Minnesänger desMittelalters. Mehr als 100 Lieder sind in verschiedenen handschriftlichen Textzeugnissen überliefert. Über Walthers Leben ist wenigbekannt, vermutlich stammte er aus dem Österreichischen. Sein Werk umfasst Lieder zu den Themenbereichen Liebe, Politik undReligion. Seine Liebeslyrik folgt dem Konzept der „hohen Minne”.Bettmann/Corbis Das seit dem T...
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War of 1812 - History.
the thorough training they received in handling guns was far ahead of contemporary British standards. As hostilities loomed, Congress authorized a regular army of 35,000 men, but when the United States officially declared war in June 1812, the actual land force was lessthan 10,000 and nearly half of these soldiers were raw recruits. The existing troops were also widely scattered in small garrisons. The government planned tosupplement this regular force with 50,000 volunteers and 100,000 militiam...
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War of 1812 - U.
the thorough training they received in handling guns was far ahead of contemporary British standards. As hostilities loomed, Congress authorized a regular army of 35,000 men, but when the United States officially declared war in June 1812, the actual land force was lessthan 10,000 and nearly half of these soldiers were raw recruits. The existing troops were also widely scattered in small garrisons. The government planned tosupplement this regular force with 50,000 volunteers and 100,000 militiam...
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Brazil - country.
occasional droughts. Brazil contains a wealth of mineral and plant resources that have not yet been fully explored. It possesses some of the world’s largest deposits of iron ore and containsrich deposits of many other minerals, including gold and copper. Brazil’s fossil fuel resources are modest, but this limitation is offset by the considerable hydroelectricpotential of the nation’s many rivers. Although Brazil is an important producer of tropical crops, areas of highly fertile land are limited...
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Bolivia - country.
E Plants and Animals Because of the wide variations in elevation, plant and animal species of nearly every climatic zone are found in Bolivia. A coarse grass, called ichu, grows on the largelybarren high plateau in the west. Para rubber trees, more than 2,000 species of hardwood trees, and vanilla, sarsaparilla, and saffron plants are common in the tropicalforests of the east. The llama, found chiefly on the Altiplano, is an efficient beast of burden. Alpacas and vicuñas also inhabit the platea...
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Hinduism.
they do not share any basic terms. B Sanātana Dharma Evidence from inscriptions indicates that Hindus had begun to use the word dharma for their religion by the 7th century. After other religions of Indian origin also began to use this term, Hindus then adopted the expression san ātana dharma to distinguish their dharma from others. The word san ātana, meaning immemorial as well as eternal, emphasized the unbroken continuity of the Hindu tradition in contrast to the other dharmas . The Bu...
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Native Americans of North America.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...
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Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...