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Fourth son of John 1. He lead the expedition that captured Ceuta.
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Yonglo became emperor after his father, Hongwu died in1398. He moved the Ming capital to beijing and built a city surrounded by high walls.
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Johan Gutenberg invented the Printing Press in 1439. It increased the literatcy rate. It also
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The fall of Constantinople to the Turks. Started F April 6, 1453 and ended May 29 1453. The fall marked the end of the Byzantine Empire that lasted 1,100 years.
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The Hundred Years' War started in 1337 and ended in 1453. The war was fought on French soil and is believed to reduce france's population by half. The started for the control over the Kingdom of France.
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He sailed around the southern most tip of Africa. He was the first to do this.
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The war was a joint project between Isabella's Crown of Castile and Ferdinand's Crown of Aragon. They surrendered the Emirate of Granada, the city of Granada, and the Alhambra palace to the Castilian forces.
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He sailed for the Spanish with the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria. He landed on an island that is now part of the Bahamas.
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Spain controlled the land found west of the imaginary line. Portugal controlled the land found east of the imaginary line. It was first defined by Pope Alexander VI.
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He sailed around the southern tip of africa and made a sea route from Europe to Asia. He by passed the Muslim nations that controlled the overland spice trade.
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Leonardo Da Vinci started painting the Mona Lisa. It is an oil painting and is believed to be the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. He continued to work on the painting through out his life.
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Donatello created the David statue in 1504. The statue is the biblical hero David and is made out of marble. It was transford to Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.
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He led an expedition that led to the fall of the aztec empire
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Michelangelo started painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1508 and finished in 1512. Pope Julius the second requested Michelangelo to paint. The ceiling is 131 feet long and 43 feet wide.
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Raphael painted the School of Athens in 1509. It is one of his famous pieces of artwork. It is now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostalic Palace in the Vatican.
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Machiavelli starts writing The Prince. He started writing in 1513 but did not publish it until 1532, five years after his death.
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She was oldest daughter of King Henry the 8th. During her rein she got the nickname "bloody mary".
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Martin Luther posted his 95 Thesis on the Wittenburg Church. This started the Protestant Reformation.
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It was the first successful slave revolt. A much greater slave revolt happened acouple of years later.
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200 spamish conquistadores went against several 1,000 incans. The spaniards won and captured Atahualpa
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He explored the west coast of New Foundland and discovered Prince Edward Island.
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Wife of Henry the 8th is executed. This allows Henry to marry June Seymore.
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Edward is the only son of Henry the 8th. He solidfied the Anglican Church.
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Starts order of Preists. Reforces church of Education
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Only Anglican Daughter of Henry becomes ruler. Start of Elizabeth age.
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He played a key role in the dutch revolt. He took military and political control of the rebellion.
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Philip was the only heir of the king of portugal.
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He inherited the throne after his mother and her last son died. He became Henry IV th efirst king of the Bourbon dynasty in France.Many cathilics opposed Henry.
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It is a 21 year monopoly that carried out trade activities in Asia. It was granted by the States General of the Netherlands.
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it is often called the birth of the modern european novel. the book was written by Miguel de cervantes and he wrote about a poor spanish nobleman.
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He went adrift in a small boat with his son and several loyal crewmen. He wanted to search for an outlet from James Bay.
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William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. It is a mystery on how he died but historians predict that he died from a fever called "new fever" that was discovered the year he died.
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He was head of the Hapsburg Family. He ruled the Czech kingdom. The Protestants in Bohemia did not trust him.
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Peter Miniut bought Manhattan from the native americans. He estabilshed New Amsterdam and it later became known as New York City.
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Galileo compared the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system. The book was abest seller and was translated into Latin in 1635.
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The book is influential on modern philosophy and the evolution of natural science. Descartes brings up the problem of skepticism and he started his line of reasoning by doubting everything.
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He was the most powerful ruler in french history.He was only five years old when he became king.
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Hobbes said that lives of individuals in the state of nature was poor, nasty, brutal and short. The state system grew out of the social contract and was anarchic and was now in competition with each other.
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The navigation acts restricted foriegn ships being used for trade between the colonies and Bratain. These acts minimized the loss of gold and silver to foreigners.
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He claimed the valley fo rthe French King, Louis XIV. He named the area Louisiana in his honor.
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Isaac wrote three books about his laws of gravity. He corrected his first personal copy and then published the next two.
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John Locke first published the "Two Treatises on Government" anonymously. The first reaty is about patriarchalism and the second one is about Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit was a physicist and a glass blower. He also invented the fahrenheit temperature scale.
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Charles VI had other leaders of Europe sign an agreement that declared they would recognize Maria Theresa as the heir to all his Hapsburg territories. She faced many years of war. Her main enemy was Prussia.
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He followed his father's military policies but he also softened some of his father's laws. Him and his friend tried running away but got caught his father punished him by making him watch his friends beheading. He was known as Fredrick the Great since then.
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Fredrick the Great had no children during his lifetime. He also reined during the seven years war.
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In 1752 the project was suspended by the courts. Accusations were brought up about the entries on religion and natural law.
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Also known as the French and Indian War. It started over french's expansion over the Ohio river.
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This marked the high point of the Milan Enlightenmnet. Baron put arguments against the death penalty in it.
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty got on three ships in the boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea into the harbor. Some of the men were dressed as Native Americans.
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Catherine gave the serfs the right to file complaints about nobles if they did not hold up their side of the deal. She did this because they would no longer be able to come to her directly and she did not was to be bothered by the "peasantry".
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Joseph Priestley found oxygen by heating red mercuric oxide and had a colourless gas left behind. He called it “dephlogisticated air”.
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This document stated that the thirteen colonies were not part of Britian anymore an were their own independent states. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
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This allowed serfs to get married without being stopped because of previous aquiasitions of a certificate. This also allowed serfs to learn any trade , handicraft, ect.
