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In the 100 years was, there was a fought between france and england. the war has started by Charled IV had died without a son. so edward III of england thought he was next to rule through his mother.
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was an event that was crucial i european history. It was a disease caused by rats that killed a lot of the population of Europe. many people thought it was the end of the world. it was brought to europe by the trading people.
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Johannes Gutenberg printing press was important because it allowed mass production possible. also it was the ket to spreading the renaissance. It also allowed the mass production of printed materials possible.
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The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453.The Ottomans were commanded by the then 21-year-old Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. he defeated an army commanded by Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos.
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The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition. it was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. Under the spanish inquisition 1were up to 21 tribunals in the empire.The Spanish Inquisition, which begins under Ferdinand and Isabella, doesn't end until the 19th century the last execution was in 1826.
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King Henry was the king of england from 1491-1547. He was a good and wise king. But he also had many different wives. he has six wives and many kids. He only had a single son heir to himself. That is why he had six other wives.
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Columbus didn't “discover” America he never set foot in North America. During four separate trips that started with the one in 1492, Columbus landed on various Caribbean islands that are now the Bahamas as well as the island later called Hispaniola. He also explored the Central and South American coasts.On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa María, the Pinta, and the Niña. On October 12, the expedition sighted land, probably Watling Island.
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The Colombian exchange was a huge trade. it was between Colombia and europe. many things were traded between them, but the most common was food, animals and disease. the disease from the europeans wiped out many people in the new world.
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The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly from Africa to the Americas, and then their sale there. The transatlantic slave trade began in the 15th century, after the Portuguese started exploring the coast of West Africa. At first the number of enslaved Africans taken was small.
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Hernan Cortés invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire. Credit: Public domain. Engraving by W. Holl, 1837. For more on the conquest of Mexico by Spain, see also Spanish Conquest of Mexico, Siege of Tenochtitlan, and Hernán Cortés. The Aztecs were conquered by Spain in 1521 after a long siege of the capital, Tenochtitlan, where much of the population died from hunger and smallpox.
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Ivan the Terrible, Ivan Grozny; a better translation into modern English would be Ivan the Formidable), was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547, then "Tsar of All the Russias" until his death in 1584. The last title was used by all his successors. Ivan the IV, or Ivan the Terrible, was tsar of Russia from 1530-1584 and established a tradition of absolute rule. After a childhood of abuse and repression he destroyed his rivals and claimed the throne of Tsardom.
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This all started by martin luther nailing the 95 theses to the church wall. this brought a uprising of leaders and spiritual leaders. Here they started to bang heads with each other and they hated each other.
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Peace of Augsburg, 1555, temporary settlement within the Holy Roman Empire of the religious conflict arising from the Reformation. Each prince was to determine whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism was to prevail in his lands.Peace of Augsburg. ... The Peace of Augsburg, also called the Augsburg Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the Schmalkaldic League, signed on September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg.
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The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from La Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 has long been held as one of England's greatest military achievements, and a sign of the strength and spirit imparted to the country by the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
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The Edict of Nantes, signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France substantial rights in the nation, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time. The Edict of Fontainebleau (22 October 1685) was an edict issued by Louis XIV of France, also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes (1598) had granted the Huguenots the right to practice their religion without persecution from the state.
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The samurai (or bushi) were the warriors of premodern Japan. They later made up the ruling military class that eventually became the highest ranking social caste of the Edo Periodn Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi or buke. According to translator William Scott Wilson.By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class.
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In London, King Charles I is beheaded for treason on January 30, 1649. Charles ascended to the English throne in 1625 following the death of his father, King James I. In the first year of his reign, Charles offended his Protestant subjects by marrying Henrietta Maria, a Catholic French princess. Charles was the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life
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William Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, his 52nd birthday. In truth, the exact date of Shakespeare's death is not known, but assumed from a record of his burial two days later, 25 April 1616, at Holy Trinity Church. Stratford Upon Avon, where his grave remainsBy the spring of 1616, Shakespeare fell ill with some kind of illness; his precise ailment has been lost to history. On 23 April 1616, his 52nd birthday, William Shakespeare died. He was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
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The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. The Petition Itself. The Petition of Right of 1628 is one of England's most famous Constitutional documents. It was written by Parliament as an objection to an overreach of authority by King Charles I. During his reign, English citizens saw this overreach of authority as a major infringement on their civil rights.
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George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney was a British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat.The Macartney Embassy, also called the Macartney Mission, was the first British diplomatic mission to China, which took place in 1793. It is named for its leader, George Macartney, Great Britain's first envoy to China. The goals of the mission included the opening of new ports for British trade in China,
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The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's sovereignty. The disputes included the First Opium War and the Second Opium WarDuring 1856–1860, British forces fought towards legalisation of the opium trade, to expand coolie trade to open all of China to British merchants, and to exempt foreign imports from internal transit duties.
