Examples of Middle Ages in the following topics:
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- The Early Middle Ages began with the fall of the Roman Empire and ended in the early eleventh century; its art encompasses vast and divergent forms of media.
- The Middle Ages of the European world covers approximately 1000 years of art history in Europe, and at times extends into the Middle East and North Africa.
- Population decline, relocations to the countryside, invasion, and movement of peoples, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued in the Early Middle Ages.
- Many of the surviving manuscripts of the Latin classics were
copied in monasteries in the Early Middle Ages.
- Most illuminated manuscripts of the Early Middle Ages had lavish book-covers decked with precious metal, ivory, and jewels.
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- Calligraphic design was omnipresent in Islamic art in the Middle Ages, and is seen in all types of art including architecture and the decorative arts.
- As in Europe in the Middle Ages, religious exhortations such as Qur'anic verses may be also included in secular objects, especially coins, tiles, and metalwork.
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- Italy in the late Middle Ages provided an important bridge between what had been the Medieval period, with a fashion for Byzantine and Gothic styles, and what would become the the Early Modern Period with its Renaissance style.
- In spite of the fact that it is now a fairly small town, during the Middle Ages it was a center of religious power and home to various iconic architectural pieces, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- In the Middle Ages and into the seventeenth century it was known as the Republic of Venice, a strong power in Northern Italian politics and trade, as well as a maritime power.
- Identify the artistic and architectural importance of Pisa, Venice, and Milan during the Middle Ages.
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- A prelude to the Age of Discovery was a series of European expeditions
crossing Eurasia by land in the late Middle Ages undertaken by a number of explorers, including Marco Polo, who left behind the most detailed and inspiring record of his travels across Asia.
- A prelude to the Age of Discovery was a series of European expeditions crossing Eurasia by land in the late Middle Ages.
- Most were Italians, as trade between Europe and the Middle East was controlled mainly by the Maritime republics.
- The geographical exploration of the late Middle Ages eventually led to what today is known as the Age of Discovery: a loosely defined European historical period from the 15th century to the 18th century that witnessed extensive overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and globalization.
- Recall the exploration of Eurasia in the Middle Ages by Marco Polo, which was a prelude to the advent of the Age of Discovery in the 15th Century
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- Middle age is the period of age beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age.
- Census lists middle age as including people aged from 35 to 54, while developmental psychologist Erik Erikson argues that middle adulthood occurs from the age of 40 until 65.
- Strength and flexibility also decrease throughout middle age.
- Diana DeGette, a politician from Colorado, was born in 1957 and is in the middle age stage of life.
- Discuss the implications of middle age in terms of fading physical health and mortality concerns
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- One can expect a variety of changes to take place through the early- and middle-adult years.
- During middle adulthood, the aging process becomes more apparent.
- Hearing also further declines: 14 percent of middle-aged Americans have hearing problems.
- Age spots and blood vessels become more apparent as the skin continues to dry and get thinner.
- Review the milestones of physical development in early and middle adulthood
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- Stone Age art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave paintings, and early sculpture and architecture.
- The Stone Age is the first of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods: the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
- The Stone Age lasted roughly 3.4 million years, from 30,000 BCE to about 3,000 BCE, and ended with the advent of metalworking.
- The art of the Stone Age represents the first accomplishments in human creativity, preceding the invention of writing.
- By the Iron Age, civilizations with writing had arisen from Ancient Egypt to Ancient China.
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- The early half of the Gilded Age roughly coincided with the middle portion of the Victorian era in Britain and the Belle Époque in France.
- The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West.
- Unions crusaded for the eight-hour working day and the abolition of child labor; middle-class reformers demanded civil service reform, prohibition, and women's suffrage.
- During the Gilded Age, many new social movements took hold in the United States.
- A book cover of The Gilded Age by Mark Twain (1st edition, 1873).
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- An example of the Information Age is how virtually every individual uses the Internet in some way at their place of work.
- The Information Age formed by capitalizing on computer microminiaturization advances.
- Many argue that jobs traditionally associated with the middle class (assembly line workers, data processors, foremen, and supervisors) are beginning to disappear, either through outsourcing or automation.
- This graph shows the drastic increase in Internet usage, indicative of the pervasiveness of the Information Age.
- Examine the impact the Information Age has on the accessibility and breadth of information available to society
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- By the end of the Gilded Age, the United States was at the top end of the world's leading industrial nations.
- In the Progressive Era that followed the Gilded Age, the United States became a world power.
- The Gilded Age saw impressive economic growth and the unprecedented expansion of major cities.
- Unions crusaded for the eight-hour working day and the abolition of child labor; middle class reformers demanded civil service reform, prohibition, and women's suffrage.
- Built in 1893, it typifies the excesses of Gilded Age wealth.