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His invention of the printing press played a key role in carring out the the Renaissance, Reformation, and the Age of Enlightenment
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The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries.
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Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for several centuries.
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He was responsible for the development of European exploration and maritime trade.
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He challanged the Catholic church with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517.
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Held an expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa in the hope of finding a trade route to India.
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A victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire.
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The 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants.
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Held an expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean.
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killed during the Spanish conquest of Mexico
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He wrote his masterpiece The Prince
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The first European to reach India by sea.
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When historians compare Pizarro's and Cortés's conquests of Peru and Mexico, they usually give the palm to Pizarro because he led fewer men, faced larger armies, and was far from Spanish outposts in the Caribbean which could have supplied men, arms, and provisions.
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He sought to eliminate the remnants of feudalism persisting in parts of France .
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Ruled during the golden age of Russia.
