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Ferdinand of Aragon (the Catholic)
History; World history

King of Aragon (r.1479-1516) and Naples (r.1504- 16). His marriage to Isabella of Castile in 1469 led to the unification of Spain, and his conquest of Granada (1492) completed the ...

Fertile Crescent
History; World history

Region of the ancient Middle East in which the earliest agricultural economies and sedentary village societies developed (c.9000-7000 BC), with domesticated cereals (einkorn and ...

Feudalism
History; World history

A contractual system in which a lord (usually a king or great magnate) granted protection and a fief (usually an estate) to a vassal (usually a knight or nobleman) in return for ...

Final Solution
History; World history

Nazi term for the attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Adolf Hitler believed that Germans and other northern Europeans ('Aryans') were historically engaged in racial war ...

Fire in the Fern
History; World history

(1862) the unified Maori resistance movement in New Zealand that began with the King Movement in 1858. It flared into armed conflict after a land dispute at Waitara, with 12 years ...

First Northern War
History; World history

Fought from 1655-60, a conflict that began when Sweden, in alliance with Brandenburg, invaded Poland. Swedish victory brought into being a hostile alliance of Russia, Denmark and ...

First World War
History; World history

1914-18 Global conflict that began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Austria ...

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