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The Black Death was a plague pandemic that devastated medieval Europe between 1347 and 1352. The Black Death killed approximately 25-30 million people. The disease originated in central Asia and was brought to the Crimea by Mongol warriors and traders.
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Is the name given to a broad cultural movement that occurred in Western Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its main exponents are in the field of the arts, although there was also a renewal in the sciences, both natural and human.
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Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. Revolutionized the manufacturing of books, and also the studies of the arts and sciences. -
The Siege of Orleans occurred during the Hundred Years' War, an inheritance dispute over the French throne between the ruling houses of France and England.
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He was a navigator, cartographer, admiral, viceroy and governor general of the Indies in the service of the Crown of Castile, famous for having made the so-called discovery of America in 1492.
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Giorgio Vasari was a 16th century artist who also dedicated himself to art history. It was he who first used the term Renaissance, to refer to the centuries that had seen the rebirth of classical culture breaking with medieval tradition. -
It began in 1543, when the Polish scientist Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) published his book De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies) in which he explained his conception of the solar system. -
The coronation of Elizabeth I as queen of the Kingdom of England took place at Westminster Abbey, London.