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Went on to be the founder of the School of Navigation and convince Portugal to explore.
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He was born as Zhu Di he was appointed as the prince of Yan.
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Zheng He, formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming Dynasty.
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The comission came from a cathedral in Florence. He painted this one which is just one of the tweleve statues.
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The Printing Press allowed book to be made in a much shorter amount of time. It increased literary rates dramatically.
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It fell to the Ottomans. It was controlled by the Byzantines. It fell after 1100 years of prosperity and was a large blow to Christendom.
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When Bordeaux surrendered, leaving Calais as the last English possession in France. It was a long war.
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He found the sourhtern tip of Africa and found an all water route to Asia.
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The loss of the Muslims to Ferdinand and Isabella was seen as a great blow to Islam and a triumph of Christianity.
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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, citizen of the Republic of Genoa. He found America and thought it was the Indies. He was wrong.
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It divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire.
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Da Gama's discovery was significant and opened the way for an age of global imperialism and for the Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia.
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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts.
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It was paid for by Pope Julius II for which it is named and it took him four years to complete it. It still is viewed by people from around the world in Vatican City.
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It is a Frescoe and one of Raphaels best works. The painting resembled the greates minds and had many famous rennasaince men in the painting.
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The Mona Lisa is one of the most highly acclaimed paintings still today. It was not finished by da Vinci for an unknown reason.
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He posted 95 things that he disagreed with the church. By doing this he started the Protestant Reformation.
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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
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The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy.
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Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire.
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The first czar meaning caesar. Came to the thrown at age three. He had a good period and a bad period.
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He sailed far up the St. Lawrence River in Canada. His explorations enabled France to claim land in Canada.
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Henry the Eight executed his wife. This allows Henry to have a son with Jane Seymour.
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Only son of Henry the Eigth Born. The Anglican Church becomes solidified under him.
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Starts own order of Priests. He refocuses the Church on education.
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Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet "Bloody Mary".
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Anglican daughter of Henry becomes Queen. Begins Elizabethen Age.
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William of Orange led the Dutch to revolt against the Spanish by flooding their lands and destroying the Spanish in many ways.
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The most powerful King in Europe at the time. He was also the most hardened and ruled without help from his advisors.
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The Spanish Armada was the strongest navy in the world at that time. After the English defeated the Spanish, the spot of the most powerful navy was up for grabs.
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Kepler wrote the first public defense of the Copernican system. This was a dangerous stance, given that in 1539, Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran church, derided the theory when he first heard it.
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It was an English joint-stock company, formed to pursue trade with the East Indies but ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent.
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The States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. It is often considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world and it was the first company to issue stock.
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Hudson wanted to press on to the west, but most of his crew mutinied. The mutineers cast Hudson, his son and 7 others adrift; the Hudsons, and those cast off at their side, were never seen again.
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. It was a huge blow to the writing community
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It was a conflict of religion, territory, and power. With two phases: Triumphs of the Hapsburgs and defeats of the Hapsburgs.
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A hard-working cardianal for the Catholic church. He became the ruler of France. Increased the power of the Bourbon monarchy
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He always needed money. He wasn't too fair. He would ask money from Parliament and if he didn't get it, he would dissolve Parliament.
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It is an Italian-language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system.
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The Discourse on the Method is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise that is still basically used today.
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The war that lasted seven years was between supporters and opponents of King Charles. The Puritans with Cromwell won and brought Charles to trial for treason.
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Louis became king at five years old and didn't begin his rule till he was 23. Louis ruled with splendor and style creating very elaborate homes and others things for himself such as his palace at Versilles.
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The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.
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People rejoiced and Charles restored the Monarchy so the time was called the restoration. He passed the law of habeas corpus.
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The Dutch surrendered to the Duke of York after seeing his fleet and didn't fire a shot to protect their land. New York was name after the Duke of York.
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Much of the area that was explored was land that no European had ever ventured into. The expeditions led to the establishment of an overland trade route connecting French colonies in Canada with the French colonies in Louisiana.
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The Principles states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics, also Newton's law of universal gravitation, and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
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This is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory.
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He had the mind of a genius, the body of a giant, and the temper of a bear. He was a very cruel and strong ruler who didn't take any nonsense. He reformed Russia though.
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The war lasted till 1713. It included England, Austria, Dutch, Portugal, and several German and Italian states against France and Spain. Great Britain was teh bigger winner.
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After 21 years of war, Russia finally won their new capital from Sweden. Peter wanted St. Petersburg because it was a window to the world.
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Decreased power of nobility. Had 16 children. She was very religious and decresed the labor nobles could force peasants to do.
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He is known for his reorganization of Prussian armies, his patronage of the Arts and the Enlightenment in Prussia, and his final success against great odds in the Seven Years' War.
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Attacked Maria and thought he could easily win because she was a girl. Started the Seven Years' War
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Conflict between Great Britain and France broke out when the British attacked disputed French positions in North America and seized hundreds of French merchant ships.
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Mary was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.
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The partitions were conducted by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg Austria, which divided up the Commonwealth lands among themselves progressively in the process of territorial seizures.
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The rebellion started shortly after Catherine took power and she put it down after two years.
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This marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the Americans lost.
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This is what gave America it's independence and it was signed by many people that are still very well known today.
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He has been ranked, with Catherine II of Russia and Frederick II of Prussia, as one of the three great Enlightenment monarchs. Because of his abolishment of serfdom.
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Cornwallis surrendering marked the end of the revolutionary War with help from the French the Americans won the war.
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The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government.
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The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Republic of Haiti.
