Da Vinci and His Creations Of all the great masters during the Renaissance‚ the one that probably revolutionized the world the most was Leonardo da Vinci. He was an extraordinary artist dealing with sculpting‚ painting‚ and architecture. Da Vinci was also an outstanding scholar. He was an expert in mathematics‚ biology‚ anatomy‚ literature‚ and even more. The most interesting study that he undertook would have to be engineering. Leo’s creations were centuries ahead of his time. He made things from
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Leonardo’s notes and drawings display a big range of interests and preoccupations‚ some as lists of groceries and people who owed him money and some as designs for wings and shoes for walking on water. There are compositions for paintings‚ studies of details‚ studies of faces and emotions‚ of animals‚ babies‚ dissections‚ plant studies‚ rock formations‚ whirlpools‚ war machines‚ flying machines and architecture. Leonardo’s approach to science was easily known: he tried to understand a phenomenon
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The body of the Christ formed a shape like the crossbow. Because the painting was commissioned by the crossbowman guild . In addition‚ the poses of the Christ and Virgin Mary were very similar. An indication of their close relationship‚ mother and son. The setting of this painting could also be found
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The land of Tenochtitlan‚ which is currently owned by the Spanish‚ known as Mexico City‚ was not always under the same empire. This land used to belong to the Aztecs but was taken over when the battle between the Spanish and Aztecs occurred. Though some would think that this conflict was avoidable‚ I believe otherwise. In my opinion‚ I believe that the conflict of the Aztecs was inevitable‚ because of the differing religions‚ the Aztec’s resources‚ Spanish’s excellent technology‚ and the Aztec’s
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In the sixteenth century‚ the high renaissance is a period that focused on the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance. The high renaissance was known for a short period of exceptional artistic production in the Italian states‚ particularly Rome‚ capital of the Papal States‚ under Pope Julius ll. Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15‚ 1452‚ in Vinci‚ Italy. Leonardo was an Italian polymath who was well known as an artist who painted over 280 paintings. He was also known as a natural genius crossing
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Why was difficult to attack a castle? During the Medieval period‚ castle became important. These huge castles were mostly invented for defending the foreigner attacks. The castles were also the sin of the noble and royal power. Eventually‚ there were various kinds of castle‚ but most of the castles were used for protecting and defending during siege warfare. While the builders built these castles‚ they added much prevention structures to the castles‚ those preventions made the castles difficult
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The British used it to such great effect that there were those‚ including Benjamin Franklin‚ who questioned as to why the British would abandon the crossbow for firearms even in the year 1776. (Esper 382) David Niccole says that a longbow could fire approximately fifteen times a minute‚ which was far superior to firearms at the time. (Niccole 18)Froissart enumerates as to how the British expertise with
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Hernan Cortes‚ a fierce Spanish conquistador‚ landed at San Juan de Ulua‚ in April 1519. With him‚ Cortes had 508 soldiers‚ one hundred sailors‚ artillery cannons‚ eleven ships and sixteen horses. Cortes and his small army‚ marched through Mexico‚ forming alliances with Aztec rivals‚ until reaching the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the massive Mexican empire known as the Aztecs or Mexica. It had a population of 200‚000 people; almost three times that of the largest
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Rough Draft: Military Might: The Key to the Qin’s Unification of China A military official dressed in earthen armor and wielding a bronze knife was a common sight during the early days of the Qin Empire. During the Warring States Period (221-207 BCE) in China‚ the state of Qin’s militaristic and authoritarian government was integral to the rise of the Qin Dynasty. Through military might‚ the Qin defeated and conquered six other city states and established itself as China’s first empire. By establishing
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