History 7 By Blake.Livingstone 1200 Pope Urban II calls for the Crusades 1200 Commercial Revolution Commercial Revolution allowed people to work for their own destiny and was not limited because of their families job. 1254 Marco Polo was born 1293 Marco Polo Returns from Asia 1298 Marco Polo Dies 1300 The Beginning of The Renaissance 1440 Johann Gutenburg invents the Printing press. 1511 Antonio Montesinos delivers a sermon Antonio Montesinos denounced the Mistreatment of the New World Indians. 1542 Bartolome de Las Casas: Destruction of the Indies 1600 The Renaissance Ends