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The printing press was invented in 1440 by German inventor Johannes Gutenburg.
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The Renaissance was a time period where there was a rebirth of interest in learning and art. It reached its peak in the 1500's.
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Monarchs ruled the land for nearly two hundred years, until Loius XVI was overthrown in the French Revolution in 1792.
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The Mona Lisa was painted in the year 1503 by aspiring artist Leonardo da Vinci. He worked on it for four years before completion.
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The 95 theses was a list of complaints against the Catholic church, made my Martin Luther.
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William Harvey came u[ with the heliocentric theory in 1539. The theory is that the sun is the center of the solar syatem, and all the planets revolve around it. The church opposed this.
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The Council of Trent were a series of meetings where catholics met to talk mainly about the Counterreformation, or how to fix the church, and about salvation. There were about twenty-five sessions.
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On November 5, 1605, there was a plot to kill King James I. Several Catholic Priests had been told to leave England by King James I. They had expected James to be more tolerant of them, but when he wasn't, they plotted to blow him and the other people sitting in the House of Parliament up. However, at the last moment the guards had decided to check the cellar and found explosive specialist Guy Fawkes, the lead conspirator.
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The first telescope was invented in 1609 by Galileo. He used the telescope to observe Jupiter's moons from the earth. The church thoutght Galileo was a heiratic.
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The English people did not like how King Charles I was treating them, so the revolted, resulting in the first English civil war.
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Louis XVI was a French ruler that nicknamed himself the "Sun King". He lived a very extravagant lifestyle and thought very highly of himself.
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The English people were upset with King Charles II, so the 2nd English civil war began.
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This was the last of the English civil wars. It was fought in the British Isles. In the end, the Commonwealth of England was established and there was a Parliamentarian victory.
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Newton's laws of gravity were first published on July 5, 1687, in a book called "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica". It states that gravity is the force that keeps the planets in orbit.
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The glorious revolution happened because English people overthrew King James II, resulting with the throne being passed to his daughter Queen Mary.
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The eteam engine was first invented in 1698 by an English military engineer, Thomas Savery. It was based on Denis Papin's Digester, or pressure cooker, of 1679.
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The Age of Reason took place in the 1700's. It was a time period that brought many chenged to the arts and literature. There was a lot of new music composed by Bach and Mozart, and the first novel was written by Miguel Cervantes.
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Louis XV was a French monarch that was nicknamed "The Beloved".
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Nicknamed "The Last", monarch Louis XVI rwas the last of "the Louis". He reigned over France for eighteen years.
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After seeing the success of the American Revolution, the French wanted democracy, as well. The reign of terror was the extremely violent takeover of the French monarchs. King Louis XVI was executed, along with his wife Marie Antionette and several other French rulers.
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Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry in the United States. Before his invention, farming cotton required hundreds of hours to separate the cottonseed from the raw cotton fibers.
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In 1800, Alessandro Volta invented the first modern electric battery.
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The first steel plow was invented by Illinois blacksmither John Deer in 1837. The steel plow helped Great Plain farmers greatly.
