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Liu Jin, a court eunuch of the Ming dynasty in China. He abused his office to amass a great fortune and was executed for treason.
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Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Anchiano Italy.
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Koshamain, an Ainu chieftain on the island of Hokkaido, led a rebellion against Japanese encroachment, but it was put down by Nobuhiro Takeda. (Timeline.ws)
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Pattani, later southern Thailand, was declared an Islamic kingdom.
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Sun City, India, was founded by Rao Jodhpur. (Timeline.ws)
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1460-1470 Machu Picchu was built under the Inca King Pachacuti in the Peruvian Andes. It was occupied for about 50 years before 180 Spanish conquistadors wiped out a 40,000-man Inca army. In 2003 a nearby complex of structures called Llactapata (high city) was discovered.(Timeline.ws)
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Under the guidance of Sunni Ali, the Songhai began to conquer their neighbors and expand their kingdom. Goa became the capital of the Songhai empire. When Sunni Ali died rule was passed to his son, a non-Muslim.(Timeline.ws)
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Da Vinci thought sight was the most important sense to humankind. He believed in the accumulation of direct knowledge and facts through observation. To more accurately depict those gestures and movements, da Vinci began to study anatomy seriously and dissect human and animal bodies during the 1480s.(Brittanica.com)
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Throughout his career he also was intrigued by the mechanical potential of motion. This led him to design a machine with a differential transmission, a moving fortress that resembles a modern tank, and a flying machine.(Brittanica.com)
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Art and science intersected perfectly in da Vinci’s sketch of “Vitruvian Man,” which depicted a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart inside both a square and a circle. The sketch represents Leonardo’s study of proportion as well as his desire to relate man to nature.(Brittanica.com)
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This is the dramatic moment in the gospels when Christ, meeting with his disciples to celebrate the jewish passover announces that one of them will betray him this painting took him 3 years to finish(living biographies of great painters)
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Sforza commisioned da vinci to model an equestrian statue of his illustrious father but he could not finish the bronze model because it took too much bronze for such a tremendous job they couldn't waste precious metals during this time period because they were at war with France.(living biographies of great painters)
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His perpetual self criticism stopped him from finishing this masterpiece he painted not the glory but the fury of war (living biographies of great painters)
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One of if not the most well known and popular paintings was done by Leonardo Da Vinci this masterpiece set the standard for future paintings (living biographies of great painters)
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Leonardo returned to Milan in 1506 to work for the very French rulers who had overtaken the city seven years earlier and forced him to flee. He did little painting during his second time in Milan, most of his time was instead dedicated to scientific studies. Giuliano de’ Medici also gave da Vinci little work. Lacking large commissions, he devoted most of his time in Rome to mathematical studies and scientific exploration.(biography.com)
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Da Vinci died at the age of 67 He continued work on his scientific studies until his death; his assistant, Melzi, became the principal heir and executor of his estate. The “Mona Lisa” was bequeathed to Salai. For centuries after his death, thousands of pages from his private journals with notes, drawings, observations and scientific theories have surfaced and provided a fuller measure of a true "Renaissance man." (Biography.com)
