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Da Vinci was one of the best and most famous Italian renaissance artists. He is most famous for the Mona Lisa.
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The Sistine Chapel is the home of the pope. It is located in Vatican City.
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The voyage comprised of three ships, and lasted for about five weeks. When he landed, he though he was in India. -
The Treaty of Tordesillas created a line of demarcation splitting the earth for explorers. The east belonged to portugal. -
With a fleet of four ships and 170 men, he traveled around Africa to India and back. -
He had a small ship named Matthew, and 18 men. He lands on June 24 of the same year. -
He landed on April 22, in South America. He originally thought he was on a large island. -
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings ever made. The painting is very detailed, and looks very realistic. -
David is a famous renaissance sculpture created by Michelangelo, a famous renaissance artist. It is 17 feet tall and is located in Italy. -
Martin Waldseemüller was a mapmaker who named America. The name is still used today. -
The 95 theses are a list of problems Martin had with the Catholic church. This date is considered the start of the reformation. -
He reigned after Maximilian I, and was succeeded by Ferdinand I. He also reigned many other countries.
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He sets sail across the Atlantic towards South America. He discovers the Strait of Magellan. -
The Catholic Church excommunicates him for disagreeing with their practices and writing the 95 theses. -
Atahualpa was the last emperor to rule the Incas. He was executed by Pizarro because he wouldn't pay him. -
Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church and declares the Pope to not be the head of the English church. After this, he establishes Anglicanism, the Catholic Church of England. -
Institutes of the Christian Religion is regarded as one of the most influential works of Protestant theology. John Calvin eventually goes on to develop Calvinism. -
The Gustav Vasa Bible was the first Swedish translation of the Bible. The book was mostly translated by Laurentius Andreae. -
The council was founded to address the Protestant Reformation. Protestants were seen as heretics at the time, a great sin. -
He moves to the monastery of Yuste, which he selected as his final refuge. There he becomes a monk for the rest of his days.
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He was also known as Henry of Navarre. He was raised as a protestant.
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The armada was a fleet of 130 ships that were sent to attack England. The fleet miraculously lost against England.
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Also known as the Honorable East India Company, the company was an English joint-stock company.
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It is believed to be the largest company to have ever existed. It dissolved on December 31, 1799.
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The war was considered one of the most destructive wars in European history. An estimated 4.5-8 million people died as a result.
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The Long Parliament was a 20-year English parliament. It took 20 years until the members agreed to dissolve it.
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He started his reign at the age of four. His reign lasted 72 years until his death.
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The Peace ended the Thirty years' war and the Eighty years' war. It brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire.
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The High Court of Justice had declared Charles guilty of attempting to "uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people". He was sentenced to death for this.
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The Edict of Fontainebleau revoked the Edict of Nantes, taking away many rights of the Huguenots.