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Paper was invented in ancient China during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) and spread slowly to the west via the Silk Road.
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He was burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church, including those on ecclesiology, the Eucharist, and other theological topics.
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This device was the printing press, and it revolutionized the printing industry. In 1452, Gutenberg started printing his most famous project, the Gutenberg Bible.
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on May 1, 1489, he presented his plans to Queen Isabella, who referred them to a committee. They pronounced the idea impractica.After continually nagging, begging, and repeatedly asking the monarchs to support his plan at the royal court and enduring two years of negotiations, Columbus finally succeeded . Over four voyages to the Americas between 1492 and 1492, Columbus set the stage for the European exploration and colonization of the Americas, ultimately leading to the Columbian Exchange.
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In 1495, Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Last Supper on the wall of the refectory (dining hall) of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, and completed it in 1498. Leonardo was commissioned to execute the painting in the Dominican monastery of this Church by Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza.
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The Pietà is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist.
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Acting on this belief ,he wrote the ¨ Disputation on the Power and efficacy of indulgences
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he led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
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The Church of England is the established Christian church[2][3][4] in England and the mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map[1] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona (Quebec City) and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island).
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The Society of Jesuss a male religious congregation of the Catholic Church.The members are called Jesuits. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents.
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The doctrine of predestination in Calvinism deals with the question of the control that God exercises over the world. In the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith, God "freely and unchangeably ordained whatsoever comes to pass.
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Henry VIII is known for his role in the separation of the church of england from the roman catholic church.Henry is most remembered: his six marriages and his break with the Pope (who would not allow an annulment of Henry's first marriage).
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The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.
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The Edict of Nantes signed probably on 30 April 1598, by Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in the nation, which was, at the time, still considered essentially Catholic. In the Edict, Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity.
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His chief foreign policy objective was to check the power of the Austro-Spanish Habsburg dynasty, and to ensure French dominance in the Thirty Years' War that engulfed Europe.
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The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
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The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, Christendom, and the Church with its various denominations, from the 1st century to the present.
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The Council of Trent held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent) and Bologna, northern Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils.
