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An infection that spreads to humans trough fleas
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Cosimo inherited both his wealth and his expertise in banking from his father Giovanni, who had gone from being a moneylender to join the bank of his relative Vieri di Cambio de' Medici. -
The city of Florence becomes a center of Renaissance art and learning. The Medici family finances most of the major artists of this period.
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The Gutenberg Bible was the first European book published on a printing press using moveable metal type. -
What Columbus actually reached on that October day was an island he named San Salvador that is now part of the Bahamas. -
Between 1503 – 1533, one by one, the cities became territories or puppets of one or the other of the great powers, and in the process the Italian countryside was devastated and the financial resources of the cities were drained.
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Peace of Augsburg, first permanent legal basis for the coexistence of Lutheranism and Catholicism in Germany -
Restoration, Restoration of the monarchy in England in 1660. It marked the return of Charles II as king (1660–85) following the period of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth. The bishops were restored to Parliament, which established a strict Anglican orthodoxy.