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prince henrys school of navigation was founded in 1418 to train explorers in navigation currents wind patterns and climate knowledge needed to venture outside into the undiscoverd areas
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the renasance was an age of invoation in the arts science and religon that occured from the 14th century to the 17th century and peaked from late 15th century to early 17th century
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the capital of the byzantine empire fell to invading ottoman forces led by mehemed II of the ottoman empire this led to the relocation of the ottoman empire capital to contstantinpole and renamed instanbul
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christopher columbus discovers america for spain and comes back for three more voyges to explore the newly discovered lands
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lenardo da vinci finshes the mona lisa after working on it for 3 years
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the praise of folly was a satrie written by erasmus it shows how self love, flattery, oblivion and pleasure promoted friendship and tolerance in the society and show a reflection of christan ideals of the 16th century
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tobacco was introduced to europe for the first time from the americas in 1518
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cortez conqurers the aztec empire for spain and captures tenochtitlan captial of aztec empire with his men and native allies this would become mexico city after the conquest
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magelllan and his crew made the first cirrcumnaviation of the earth magellan did not survive the voyage but his crew maneged to make it back to spain in 1522
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babur founds the mughal empire which would spread though almost all of the indian subcontenent it was founded with the conquest of the sultanate of delhi in northern india and became the core of the empire
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spain conqured over the incas led by francisco pizarro who clamed the land that strech from present day ecuador to chile for spain
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copernicus publishs his heliiocentric theory to the public the heliocentric theory was when the planets revove around the sun and although coperncus was correct people refuse to belive him and the catholic church banned his book and views from being known to the public his theory was not acepeted until late17th to 18th century
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was a a series of meeting set up by pope paul II with the first in dec 1545 it was done to discuss ideas to repel the prostestant power spreading across europe the council lasted for 18 years and discontuned in 1563
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the spainsh armada was an atempt to invade england and overthrow elizabeth I it was a fleet of 130 ships and was so impresive it was called the invisible armada the attempt was unsucessful for the english had better firepower and had more ships than the spanish armada the spainsh tried to escape up northward around scotland ireland but only more ships were sinked due to bad weather navatigation and lack of supplies were also factors that the spainsh had to face half of the ships made it back
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gaileo invented his own telescope for use to study the stars and space above earth
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a conflict that lasted 30 years began as a religous war between protestant states of the holy roman empire bohemia and the hapburgs that ruled the holy roman empire and spain the prostestants but it was turned into a politcal conflict between the hapsburgs and france france and the prostestants won in the end and peace of westphilia was a series of peace treatys signed to end the war in 1648
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willam harvey discovered and study the circulation of blood he published his research and findings in frankfurt germany it tells how the blood circulation works around the body
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taj mahal was built by shah jahan as a tomb for his wife mumtaz mahal it brought workers and materal from all over india and central asia to bulit the taj mahal it took over 20 years to complete it
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the ottoman empire was at its greatest extent spreading from eastern europe towards western asia and north africa the ruler of the ottoman empire that led to the peak was suieman the magnificent
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issac newton publish his theory on universal gravitation it states that all planetary bodies atract to each other