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130 BCE
Silk routes emerged connecting trade between the Mediterranean Basin and Asia
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100 BCE
Paper was invented by the Chinese
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100 BCE
Jesus began the christian religion
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610
Mohammad founded the Islamic religion
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1273
The Hapsburg family was the most powerful family in Europe
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1350
The renaissance began in Italian city states and spread to northern Europe
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1382
John Wycliffe argued the Bible was the highest religious authority - not the Pope
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1400
Erasmus spread the idea of "humanism"
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1415
Jan Huss was burned at the stake for being a heretic
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1430
The Songhai empire was established in Africa
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1439
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
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1478
The inquisition was used to reinforce catholic doctrine
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1495
Leonardo da vinci painted the last supper
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1499
Michelangelo sculpted the pieta
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1503
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa
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1508
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of Sistine chapel
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1517
Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to a church door
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1517
The ottoman empire spread to Africa, the middle east and southern Europe
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1521
Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther
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1526
The Maughan Empire began in northern India
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1534
Henry VIII broke from the church in Rome and divorced his wife
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1534
Henry VII became the head of the Anglican Church
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1534
The Jesuits were spread the catholic faith
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1541
John Calvin developed the idea of predestination
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1545
Catholic leaders met at the council of Trent
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Queen Elizabeth I defeated Philip II's Spanish armada
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Elizabeth I sponsored Sir Francis Drake's exploration to the new word
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Henry IV issued the edict of Nantes
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Cardinal Richelieu got France involved in the thirty years war
