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The Pope called for a series of Holy Wars in the East to take back the Holy Land from the Muslims.
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Europe started to develop a capitilistic society and the economy started to run the trade and market business. People were now able to become what they wanted to be if they worked hard enough for it.
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Marco Polo was born in 1254 AD in Venice, Italy, to a family of merchants.
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Marco Polo and the rest of his crew begin the journey back to Italy bringing back luxuries such as ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain, and silk. They ventured back by boat, going on a 2-year journey to Venice, of which only 18 survived out of several hundred.
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Marco Polo was taken as a prisoner of war and while in Genoa (Venice's rival city), a writer from Pisa encouraged Polo to write a book about his travels. Marco Polo did write the book and it was published as "The Description of the World; or, The Travels of Marco Polo".
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Renaissance, meaning rebirth, was the start of rebirth in Europe. Europe had an interest in the world around them and developed new tools, inventions, and ideas. The Renaissance ended in the 17th century.
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German Johann Gutenberg invented the Printing Press. It became famous worldwide and by 1500 there were printing presses all over Europe.
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Montesinos is the first to speak out about treatment of natives in the New World (New Spain).
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He writes about the treatment of the Natives in the New World (New Spain)
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Near the end of the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution began. People made great discoveries in science and mathematics such as the scientific method.