Fifteenth
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No, but some third rate, coca-cola drinking scenario writer thought the American public would be better off with some
fifteenth
rate love story soap.
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Ever since the European powers set sail at the end of the
fifteenth
century to conquer the world, historiography and international politics have become accustomed to a certain pattern: military, economic, and technological power is translated into the exercise of influence over other countries, conquest, and even global dominance and empire.
Medieval European cavalries later put political power into the hands of the wealthy, who could afford to support horses and their groomsmen, but the return of mass armies in the
fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries often turned the tables.
For example, this summer, the radical Islamist militia Ansar Dine took advantage of the chaos that has gripped northern Mali in the wake of a coup to desecrate mausoleums of Sufi saints in Timbuktu, which has been a center of Islamic learning since the
fifteenth
century.
During the Age of Exploration, which extended from the
fifteenth
to the seventeenth century, adventurers like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and James Cook embarked on dangerous journeys to distant lands, from New Zealand to Newfoundland, drawing detailed charts of their voyages.
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