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He was burned at the stake for being a dissenter of the Catholic Church. He was killed for rebelling against the Catholic Church.
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He found the school navigation. This opened up knowledge about sailing the world.
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He invented the printing press. This allowed many books to be printed throughout Europe because of its dramatic improvement of the printing process.
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They conquered Istanbul and renamed it Constantinople. This made the Ottomans a powerhouse in the world.
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His first voyage was sponsored by Spain to sail west to reach Asia. This started the age of exploration.
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Leonardo chose to capture the moment in which Jesus announces to the apostles that he knows one of them will betray him. It was an incredible work of proportion and emotion in painting that was unheard of in the Renaissance Era.
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He established trade with India for the Portuguese. The major significance of Vasco Da Gama's voyages was that they opened maritime trade between Asia and Europe and they helped to create a Portuguese empire.
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Praise the Folly is one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and played an important role of the start of the Protestant Reformation.
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Martin Luther wrote the 95 Thesis. This lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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He conquered the Aztec Empire. This lead to the Spanish rule of the Carribean.
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He was the first person to circumnavigate the world. Ferdinand Magellan was an explorer who is most famous for attempting to travel all the way around the world by ship. He basically completed it, but was actually killed before he made it all the way, but his ship and crew were able to finish the rest of the voyage.
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This established the Church of England. This event lead to England breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church.
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He became the head of the Anglican Church. His struggles with Rome led to the separation of the Church of England from papal authority.
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He conquered the Incas. Peru contained huge amounts of silver in mines developed by the Inca.
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He explored the St. Lawrence River and Montreal leading the French Claim to Canada. Cartier had in fact discovered an important waterway into the vast areas of Canada.
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He created the heliocentric theory. It was the first theory that said that the universe does not revolve around the Earth; instead we revolve around the sun. Also it led to the advancement and accuracy in astronomical tools
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His beliefs established the idea of predestination. According to the doctrine of predestination, God chose a select few to get in to heaven. It doesn't matter if you're a good person, or a good Christian, if God didn't choose you, you burn.
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Martin Luther and his followers split from the Catholic Church.
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This made England a world class power and introduced weapons into naval warfare.
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He used his telescope to prove the heliocentric theory. Galileo is responsible for the re-birth of modern science, and the scientific method.
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He discovers planetary motion. Kepler's laws of motion helped overturn the earlier Aristotelian astronomical system which believed that the sun and planets revolved around the Earth.
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He studies the animals and anatomy to create an accurate theory of the heart and circulatory system. Harvey's work made little difference to general medical practice at the time. Blood letting continued to be a popular practice and it was not until the 20th century that doctors realised the importance of checking a patient's blood flow by taking a pulse.
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He wins the English civil war and executes Charles I. He was one of many Brits who eroded the power of the king, in favor of Parliament.
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Germany lost 15 - 30% of their population. Germany was divided into several smaller territories, the Holy Roman Empire lost a lot of power, Spain lost a lot of political and military power.
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They were shipped along the Middle Passage of the Triangular Trade to the Americas. The New England colonies used slaves to get farm work and house work done more quickly. The slave trade gave the colonies more help to make cash crops, which they sold to England for more slaves, and on and on like that.
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He revoked the Edict of Nantes. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes weakened the French economy by driving out a highly skilled and industrious segment of the nation.
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They ruled England after the Glorious Revolution. To end the Glorious Revolution, William and Mary signed the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
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He wrote the Two Treatises on Government. he First Treatise is focused on the refutation of Sir Robert Filmer. The Second Treatise outlines a theory of civil society.
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He westernized Russia. He implemented major military and domestic reforms that centralized Russia and increased its role in Europe.
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He writes the Spirit of Laws. The Spirit of Laws is Montesquieu’s best known work in which he reflects on the influence of climate on society, the separation of political powers, and the need for checks on a powerful executive office.
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He writes the Social Contract. It was important because it provided influential radical arguments and, more important, extraordinarily powerful images and phrases, which were widely cited during the French Revolution.
