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The muslims and christens fought over the holy land. 1096-1291
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A war between England and France over the succesion to the french throne. Fought about lsnd in france. England already had land.It went more than 100 years and it stopped several times.
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The black death was spread in Europe by a rat with an infected flea. The black death killed millons.
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Started in italy because of its location and wealthy merchants. Ideas renewed intrest in art, literature, science, and learning which made the renaissance.
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China expanded to its largest size in history, under the Qing dynasty's manchu rulers. 1368-1644
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1405-1433
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She was burned at the stakes for her religous crimes in 1431 when she was 19.She became a saint in 1920.
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Johannes Gutenbergs invention of the mechanical moveable type started the printing revolution.
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The first voyage of columbus.
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A shortage of lalbor in the Americas led to the beginning of the Alantic slave trade. European planters in the Americas needed large nubers of workers on their plantations, estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on a large scale.
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Michelangelo changed the course of wesetern art. 25,000 people now visit the chapel a day.
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Martin Luther goes up to a church and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
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Took almost 3 years to go all the way around the world. Magellan was killed towards the end of the trip, Juan Sebastián de Elcano completed the trip.
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Da Gama was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea.
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160 men defeted an empire.
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The Heliocentric Theory showed that the sun was positioned in the center, motionless, with all of the planets rotating around it in circular paths.
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Pope Paul III convened the Council of Trent. It was met on and off from 1545 until 1563
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They named the western hemisphere the new world because it was new to them.
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Jamestown was the first English colony. The settlers hoped to find gold and silver and a river to the Pacific, instead they found marshy ground and impure water.
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He ruled France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
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This book concerns the structure of society and the government.
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Oliver made a parliament pass a law that damaged dutch trade. A war with the dutch was the result.
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When Peter was 17 he removed his sister from the throne and took power for himself. Peter was determined to catch up with the rest of Europe and this was called westernization.
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The Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason inspired educated people of Europe and beyond. Many writers published their ideas in books, and magazines.
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A series of accusations, trials, and executions that became known as the Reign of Terror, creating a wave of fear throught the country. The Reign of Terror did not spare any particular class, occupation, or gender.
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Napoleon was a military leader who achieved many early successes. In 1793 he forced British troops out of the port of Toulon.
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Nspoleon tried to escape to America but he was captured. Napoleon sent him to Saint Helena, he never escaped and died six years later at the age of 51.
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Elizabeth becomes queen in 1951. Queen Elizabeth restores the Chruch of England and support for Protestantism.
