Headlines in history the 1400s

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Other Authors: Kallen, Stuart A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego, CA Greenhaven press 2001
Series:Headlines in history
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1
  • Politics in fifteenth-century Europe
  • Eyewitness to the battle of agincourt
  • Joan of arc
  • Conquest of constantinople
  • Eyewitness to Turkish invasion
  • Spanish inquisition
  • Life of John Hus
  • Ivan the great unifies Russia
  • Flowering culture of the ming dynasty
  • Chapter 2
  • Citizen armies of England
  • Fifteenth-century home life
  • Women in the middle ages
  • Keeping clean
  • Medieval medical practices
  • Fashions of the renaissance
  • Sailing to the holy land
  • Rules for clergymen
  • Chapter 3
  • Travels in fifteenth-century venice
  • Renaissance rulers of florence
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Leonardo's ideas on flying
  • Renaissance in music
  • Printing press changes the world
  • Chapter 4
  • Building of the Aztec empire
  • Quetzalcoatl: Great God of the Aztecs
  • Aztec human sacrifice
  • Inca empire
  • Growing up in Inca society
  • Chapter 5
  • Exploits of the Chinese dragon fleet
  • Portuguese explorations in Africa
  • African kingdoms in the 1400s
  • Culture clash in black and white
  • Da gama navigates to India
  • Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the ocean sea
  • Columbus describes the new world.