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Prince Henry was third son so would not become king. For this reason, he became a famous navigator and started a school.
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Yonglo was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He was born with the name Zhu Di. He was emperor for 22 years.
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Zheng He was a Chinese Emperor. The reasons for the voyages is unknown.
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David the statue was made out of bronze. It was based on the David in the Bible
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The printing press started as a screw-type wine press that Johan Gutenburg changed to be a printing press. It then was a movable wooden printing press. It made books faster to make making more people able to write.
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Eastern Roman Empire got captured. Ottoman Turks were the group to take over the empire.
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It was a war between France and England. It lasted 116 years with England winning most of the battles but France won the war.
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The war lasted 10 years. Most of the troops came from Castile. Isabella was more powerful then Ferdinand.
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Bartolomeu was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the tip of Africa becoming the first European to have done that.
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Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. He sailed for Spain claiming the land for them. His whole life he thought he landed in Asia but didn't.
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The treaty was signed in Tordesillas. It divided land between Spain and Portugal. Portugal got to the east and Spain got to the west.
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Vasco da Gama is a Portuguese explorer. He was the 1st European to reach Asia via the Atlantic.
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Amerigo was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer. He named it the New World later called America. He tried to upset Columbus' thoughts which is what turned out to happen.
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Mona Lisa was painted in Florence, Italy. It is a oil painting on wood panel. Leoardo DaVinci never finished the painting.
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Michelangelo went blind from painting then getting paint in his eyes. The way he mixed the paint made it slowly faint away. After it got faint people started to do touch ups on it.
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In the painting Raphael made the center the attention. Going out from the center he had important people in his painting including himself.
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Mary I was the only daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She wanted to return England to Christianities.
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Martin Luther posted 95 things wrong with the church on the church doors. This started the Reformation.
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Hernán was a Spanish Conquistador. When landed he had a native women translate for him.
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Philip II married Queen Mary I so he became king of more places. Also Spain was doing very good under his rule so they called it The Golden Age. He was King of Spain for about 42 years.
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Francisco traps Atahualpa inviting him to dinner. With 1000 against 200 Spanish open fire keeping Atahualpa to convert to Christianity then later killing him.
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The Prince was not published until 5 years after his death. He did not write it to become famous. It was written with ideas about things.
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At age 3 his father died. His mother tried to take power but Ivan's uncle wanted the power. His uncle was soon arrested and his mother died. That left him to rule. At age 21 he took absolute rule.
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After Mary I died Elizabeth I became queen. She also was a daughter of King Henry VIII and her mother was Anne Boleyn. She used the single life as a way to get things for her country.
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Jacques was exploring for France. He was in search for reaches and new route to Asia. Jacques explored the St. Lawerence River.
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Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England for three years before being executed. She was executed for commiting adultery. Anne now haunts the Tower of London where she was killed.
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Edward was born to the parents of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. At age 9 Edward VI became King the died 6 years later.
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Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight. It converted non-christians to Catholicism.
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Nicolaus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer. He did his studies in hiding and right before he died he published them. He believed that the Sun was the center of the universe not the earth.
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Ivan had some mental problems that only got worse as he got older. After causeing his daughter in law to miscarry his son went to defend her. Then Ivan killed his son. Finally he died of a heart attack leaving Europe without a ruler
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The weather played a big role in the battle. The storm made the Spanish Armada wait which gave the English navy time to get ready. Spanish was lead by King Philip II and Queen Elizabeth I. England was lead by Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake.
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Kepler created three laws about the planets and how they moved. When Brahe died Kepler took over his job. Overall he just found the laws to go with Copernicus and Brahe's thinkings.
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English East India Company is sometimes called EIC. The headquarters is in London, England. It is an international trading company.
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The Dutch East India Company is sometimes refered to as VOC. It is a trading intustry. They sent about 900000 people to the Americas from Europe.
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Henry Hudson was a sea explorer and navigator. Hudson wanted to go west to discover more so he took his son and seven other men and they where never seen again.
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It is unknown what William died of. William Shakespeare died on his birthday. He died at the age of 52.
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The war lasted 30 years. Ferdinand II started the war. Most of the war happened on German soil.
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When the Dutch took over New York there was not a fight, it was handed over with no gun shots. This was a great victory to the Duke of York he named it New York after himself.
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Charles always needed money because of the wars. Parliament refused to give him the money. Charles then got rid of them.
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In 1616 he studied the theory of tides and in 1619 the theory of comets. In 1632 he was getting older so he published it. A year later he was tried for heresy and kept in house arrest until death.
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The Discourse on the Method looks at the problem of skepticism. It is famous for the quote "I think, therfore I am."
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The 72-year reign was the longest reign. He began his reign at age 5. At age 23 when the Cardinal died he took the throne for himself. His last years ruling were sad and nor glorious.
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Charles was the English king. He was put on trail and found guilty of treason. He was then sentenced to death. He was the first king to ever by publicly executed.
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He showed his wealth and power by having it built. The building cost was about $2 billion. It also took 36000 workers. In the palace there are about 2,000 rooms.
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When Peter first started to rule he had to split rule with his half-brother Ivan. Ivan then died giving all power to Peter. In the throne he created a larger standing army and many other things to make Russia the greatest nation.
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La Salle claimed all the Mississippi River and its tributaries. That meant from Rocky Mountains to the Appalachian Mountains. When leaving France he had 300 men and 4 boats but when he got to the Mississippi he had 36 men and 1 boat.
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Newton was a physicist and mathematician. His book was the foundation of classical mechanics. In the book he talked about his three laws of motion.
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England became a constitutional monarchy. The parliament drafted the bill of rights. Also monarch could not rule without consent of parliament and the parliament could not rule without consent of monarch.
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William of Orange joined toe League Of Augsburg. That France's power. He is a Dutch prince before becoming the king of England.
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John Locke was a philosopher. The First Treatise is about patriarchalism.The Second Treatise was based on natural rights.
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St. Petersburg was the Russian Capital for over 200 years. It need a lot of workers because of the weather and stuff. Also many died or ran away making it nessesary to have even more.
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Frederick was the third Hohenzollern king. He was king for 1740 until 1786. His achievements were military victories and the Enlightment Age in Prussia.
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Voltaire's first exil was in 1715 for mocking the regent. He then returned in 1717 only to be exiled again for his wrightings. Then in 1726 he was sent back to Bastille for arguing from there he was sent off to England where he would spend the next three years.
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He father Charles VI feared he would not have a boy to leave the throne to so he made a law making it legal for a daughter to rule if has no son. Maria Theresa ended up not having a brother so the throne was hers. She took the throne at age 23 when her father died.
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The Seven Years' War is also known as French and Indian War. It was fought all over the world.
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The Seven Years' War is also known as French and Indian War. It was fought all over the world. Also it lasted more then 7 years but can't really tell because it was fought all over the world.
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Mary was a philosopher. Her main wrightings were for women's rights. Her best work was A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
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Catherine continued to make Russia more modern. However the army and landowers relied on the serfs so she didn't get rid of them. That ended the rebellion.
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The Americans held this event because it was their protest about taxation. On the night of the 16th the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
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700 British soldiers were order on the night of the 18th to seize Concord. On that night Paul Revere road his horse warning people that the British were coming. This was the start of the American Revolutionary War.
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Thomas Jefferson was the main writer of the Declarartion of Independence. Most of his ideas came from past philosopies. 56 people signed the Declaration of Independence.
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When abolishing serfdom he gave all the serfs the full freedom. He then made officals regulate the rent of peasants to make sure landlords were not over charging.
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70 delegates were appointed to the Constitutional Convention. There were 55 delegates that showed up to the conventions. Only 39 signed the Constitutional.
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This is the first slave revolt that made an impact. It lead to the state of Haiti. After the revolts ended a lot of mixed raced people were considered colonist not slaves.
