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Altough there is not a clear date to the start of the Renaissance everyone knows what it is. The Renaissance gave us some of our greatest inventtions and painters. It gave us the prenting press and the ninja turtles.
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Also known as Prince Henry the navigator, he founded a universiety just for oceanography and the art of naviagation. There they trained explorers and conquistadors how to navigate and sail better.
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The Ottoman Empire attacks the eastern capital of the Byzantine Empre known as Constantinople
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Christopher Columbus is the most famous explorer in history. He is acredited for the discovery of America or the new world. He didnt actually land in America he land in Espanola modern day cuba. He had thought he had landed in India so he called the natives there Indians
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The treat of Tordasillas is the agreement bwtween spain and Portugal that settle the conflicts of the land that would be discovered by Christopher Columbus.
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5 years after Christopher Columbus discovered the new world, Vasco de Gama tried to find the quickest route around Africa. He was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope.
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The century that followed the rule of Mehmed was the golden age or height of the empire by improving welth and industrializing their empire
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The Mona lisa is a famous painting by Leonardo de Vinci. It has been stolen several times and has been sitting in the Lourve since 1797.
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The praise of folly is a peace of work written by erasmus. Erasmus was a famous play and essay writer.
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Martin Luther wrote the 95 theses and posted in on a chapel in Germany. It stated all the things that he though was wrong with the catholic church
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Ferdinand Magellan is the first person ever to circumnavigate the globe. Although he is the one known for sailing his fleet all the way around he actually died halfway through the journey.
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Cortez is a spanish conquistadors that sailed from modern day cuba to mainland mexico to the Yucatan peninsula and captured the Aztech empire
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The Mughal empire is an Islamic relgion based empire that is based in the Asian subcontinent of northern India
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Fransico Pizarro is famous for sailing to Peru and the conquering the Incan empire.
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Copernicus was the first scientist known to supoort the helio centric theory. this theory states that the earth is not in the center of the universe but is going around the sun.
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this begins the protestant reformation. Pope paul called a council of trent.
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It was first introduced when the natives gave christopher columbus a welcome gift and he later brought some back to europe
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The Armada was defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake. Spains armada was supposed to be invinceble
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Shakespeares julius ceasar is a play written by shakespeare about the final days of julius's life. Julius was killed by the senate as they feared he would take over.
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Gaeilleous made his first telescope in the design of other european telecopes. His telescope could magnify things up to 3 times than the human eye
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The Discourse on the Method is a philosophical treatise published by Descartes in 1637. Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences.
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The taj majal is one of the seven wonders of the world. It is built along the yumana river in india. It is a symbol of indias power.
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the thirty years war was fought between many European nations. It was ended by the treaty of westphalia and changed the power in Europe.
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sir isaac newton was a famous scientist known for founding laws of motion and graivty. his first one he found while sitting under an apple tree.
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The anglican church was founded by king henry. The anglican church is a denomination of the catholic church. It was created so the king could divorce his wifes.
