-
-
He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and trade with other continents. He also created the school of navigation to help out Portuguese sailros.
-
-
Yonglo moved the capital to Beijing and built as vast city known as the Forbidden City. Extended China's influence by sending Zheng He on many voyages.
-
Zheng He's first voyage consisted of a fleet of 317 ships and 28,00 men. He traded many things to get animals in return.
-
The invention made printing copies easier and increased literacy rates throughout Europe.
-
The fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Roman Empire.
-
It was fought between England and France. The England kings owed homage to the French kings so when Edward II of England didn't pay homage the French tried taking his land and the war started.
-
The discovery of the passage around southern Africa was significant because Europeans realized they could trade directly with India and the other parts of Asia, by not taking the route through the Middle East.
-
Isabel and Ferdinand entered Granada to receive the keys of the city and the principal mosque was reconsecrated as a church. The Treaty of Granada signed later that year was to assure religious rights to the Muslims.
-
It led to the first European contact with America. They Europeans had a big impact in the historical development of the modern Western world.
-
Divided the new land discovered by Christopher Colombus between Portugal and Spain.
-
This event is famous because he was the first European to reach India by an all sea route.It also paved the way for the Portuguese to establish a long lasting colonial empire in Asia.
-
-
-
The David statue brought a restoration to realistic nude sculpting.
-
This was important because it gave Europeans an idea of what the New World looked like, Map makers named America after him.
-
The painting would take Leonardo DaVinci the course of the rest of his life to paint the still incomplete painting, The Mona Lisa would soon be know for her smile.
-
In 1504, Nicolaus Copernicus began the ressearch that resulted in his heliocentric theory. He returned to Poland and took a position at the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross in what is now Wroclaw, Poland. In 1512, Copernicus became canon in the Ermland Chapter at Frauenburg (now Fromburk, Poland). In this position, he was able to devote more time to his astronomy study. In 1543 he published his findings right before he died, thus starting the Scientific Revolution.
-
-
Rapheal started this painting in 1509 and painted up until 1510. Raphael painted himself into the painting along with many other very important figures.
-
The book wasn't printed until five years after Machiavelli died. It is claimed to be one of the first works of philosophy.
-
It started the Protestant religions and was a turning point during the Renaissance. He was also the founder of the Lutheran religion. This started the Reformation.
-
Cortez claimed the land for the Spanish empire. As he made his way through the land Cortes recieved more soldiers and acquired more horses for his group.
-
The first revolt was on Christopher Columbus's son.The slaves burnt the sugar presses and escaped.
-
He trapped Atahualpa by luring him to a feast in the emperor's honor and then opened fire on the Incans. Pizarro captured Atahualpa and forced him to convert to Christianity before killing him.
-
His young life was disrupted by struggles for power among the boyars of Russia. The boyars fought to control him but Ivan seized power and crowned himself Czar.
-
His first voyage helped change the French conception of North America. It was believed that the area’s only value was its fisheries he reported that there were fertile lands and the possibility of mineral wealth.
-
She was a former spouse of Henry VIII and the mother of Elizabeth I. And was executed because Henry thought she was cheating on him and also didn't give birth to a male subject.
-
Edward VI was a significant boy in his years. He was the first born son of Henry the VIII and served as king, at the age of 9, when his father died, until he died at the age of 15. He became the first youngest ruler of England.
-
Finding the Jesuit order would prove to be a good thing for the Catholic religion. They could have Catholic schools and be taught by Catholic ministers. I.e. Creighton University in Omaha is run by a Jesuit order.
-
Mary I was the first woman to claim throne of a kingdom. During her reign, Mary was a Catholic and sought out revenge. She beheaded a lot of innocent people, and earned the name "Bloody Mary."
-
Elizabeth I claimed the throne after Mary I's death. She then restored the orders of the Anglican church.
-
During a violent quarrel he killed his oldest son and heir. When Ivan died three years late, only his weak second son was left to rule.
-
Spain dispatched an attack on England in the summer of 1588. England was ready and their ships outmanuvered the Spanish vessels made significant damage to the ships. The defeat of the Armada was a very big event.
-
British joint-stock company that was formed for trade with the East Indies but ended up trading with only one Indian subcontinent. The East India Company traded mainly in cotton, silk, salt, and tea.
-
After Kepler studied Brahe's data, he concluded that mathmathical laws govern planetary movement. He also showed that the planets moved in a elliptical pattern, not a circular pattern. Kepler used mathamatic to prove his ideas, and so he showed that Copernicus was mostly right.
-
It is considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world. They would trade goods with Asia and bring them back to Netherlands.
-
This is important because he was the first person to to publish a book that said that the Earth circles around the Sun. The church made him take back what he published even though it was correct.
-
Hudson planned to use his Discovery to further explore Hudson Bay with the continuing goal of discovering the Passage. But most of his crew wanted to return home. So his crew mutinied and sent Hudson away on his own boat with his son.
-
The significance of Shakespeare's life changed people's perspective of writing poetry. Also, Shakespeare was a fantastic writer and everyone--from then to now--loved his works.
-
It was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history.There really wasnt a complete reason it started.
-
Cardinal Richelieu made up for all of Louis weaknesses. He became in effect the ruler of France and was a very hard working leader of the catholic church for several years.
-
The scientific method is a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas. It begins with a problem or question arising from an observation. Scientists next form a hypothesis. The hypothesis is then tested in an experiment. In the final step scientists analyze and interpret data and form a conclusion.
-
He wasn't exactly the true ruler, but most of the people wanted him to be because they didn't like Mazarin. When Cardianl Mazarin died Louis finally took full control.
-
They brought Charles I to trial for treason. They found him guilty and sentenced him to death. The execution was revolutionary.
-
This was important because it was the first social contract ever laid out. He thought that lives in a state of nature were "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
-
Louis loved to surround himself with luxury so he built the Palace.Everything about the palace was immense and luxurious. It was like a small royal city.
-
Settlers lived together peacefully in New York but there was a short period of English rule when the Netherlands got the settlement back. New York was returned to the English and became the first city in the colonies to receive a royal charter.
-
On his third trip to America La Salle canoed down the Mississippi and at the mouth of the river he buried an engraved plate and a cross claiming the territory for France.
-
Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every point mass in the universe attracts every other point mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. It was put in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica and first published on 5 July 1687.
-
To make clear the limits of royal power, parliament darafted a bill of rights. William officially consented to these and other limits when he signed.
-
Locke believes that people could govern their own affairs and and to look after the welfare of the society. According to him, all people are bron equal with three rights: life, liberty, and property. If a goverment fails to protect these rights, then the people can over throw them.
-
He visits Russia to get ideas of how to get away from a feudalistic system. His ultimate goal is Westernization.
-
The war was very costly and dragged on until 1713.The big winner in the war was Great Britain, because they reicieved territories and permisson to trade slaves.
-
The existence of the city was in jeopardy as the construction commenced during the Great Northern War. The building of St. Petersburg is mainly due to the passion that Peter the Great invested in the city.
-
In theory she was supposed to be guaranteed a peaceful reign. Instead she faced years of war against Prussia.
-
He modernized the Prussian civil service and promoted religious tolerance during his reign. Frederick patronized the arts and philosophers, and wrote flute music.
-
Frederick the Great is important because he granted religious freedom and improved the education in Prussia. Frederick also is important because he didn't get rid of serfdom because he needed the support from the nobles.
-
It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected many nations. The war was driven by the antagonism between Great Britain and the Bourbons resulting from overlapping interests in their colonial and trade empires.
-
During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. She is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argues that women are not naturally equal to men, only because they lack education.
-
Britain was the sole winner of the war. France lost its colonies in North America and Britain gained sole economic domination of India.
-
The military and economy relied on serfdom heavily. Increasing demands of the state and private landowners led to increased levels of reliance on serfs. This was one of the main reasons behind several rebellions, including the large-scale Pugachev's Rebellion of cossacks and peasants. Pugachev's Rebellion lasted from 1773 until 1775.
-
On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an important event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it.
-
British soldiers and the American militia exchanged shots at the village green in Lexington. The fighting then spread to to nearby Concord. When the news of the fighting reached the Second Continental Congress, the members voted to raise an army under the command of Georg Washington. This battle was the first of the Revolutionary War.
-
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states,and no longer a part of the British rule.
-
Joseph II ruled Austria from 1780 to 1790. H esupported freedom of worship, or press, and made legal reforms. His most radical reform was the abolisment of serfdom, and he also ordered nobles to pay the peasants that work for them.
-
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. The first three Articles of the Constitution establish the rules and separate powers of the three branches of the federal government.The last four Articles frame the principle of federalism. The Tenth Amendment confirms its federal characteristics.
