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Johann Gutenberg set up the first European printing presses in Mainz, Germany, around 1450.
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Constantinople fell to the Ottoman empire, the Turks took over.
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The Hundred years war ended in July 1453. It was a war that lasted 16 years between England and France.It started when King Philip VI of France attempted to take over the English territories in the duchy of Aquitaine.
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Sixtus IV became Pope and discraced the church by practicing Nepotism
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Colombus discoverd the "new world"
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Alexander VI is known for being a rotton shady Pope, scheming for his family's benefit.
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He wrote the famous book "The Praise of Folly"
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Leonardo da Vinci designed the water wheel in 1510. He was in to hydrodynamics.
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Martin Luther started the Reformation Movement by posting his 95 Theses on the door of the church, this ignited the movement.
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Stevin was the first to use decimals instead of factions.He used them on a large scale in the book he published called
"De Thiende". This was pulished in 1585 in Dutch.