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The 1400s / Stuart A. Kallen, book editor
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- English
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- San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [2001]
- ©2001
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- 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780737705362, 0737705361, 9780737705355, 0737705353
- OCLC
- ocm45283257
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.
- 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