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Mar 5, 1300
The clock
The clock was invented by Ibn khalafa al-muradi in 1300. The clock helped people to tell the time when it's needed. If the clock wasnt invented we couldnt tell the time and we would be late for mettings and school! -
Period: Oct 6, 1300 to
Renaissance time period
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Oct 9, 1306
Eyeglasses
The eyeglasses were made in the 1306 to help people's vision. When the the printingpress was invented, the demand for the eyeglasses went higher. The people with weaker eyesight were left behind before the invention of the eyeglasses. The eyeglasses is a significant invention because nowadays people with weaker vision can read and write well like people with strong vision. -
May 5, 1371
Boccaccio a great influence on world literature
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writter, humanist, and one of the founders of the Renaissance. His most famous work is By far 'Decameron' which is a lot of short stories strung together. Centering mostley on relationships between people, these sotries give us valuable glimpses into medieval life. Many writters were inspried by Decamron because of the compelling way in which these stories were written. They were very realsitic. -
Jul 20, 1400
Printing press
In the mid 1400 Johan Gutenbreg invented the printing press to make printing books more effecient and time saving for the monks. The first book printed from the printing press was "The Gutenberg Bible" The printing press changed our life because if Gutenberg didn't invent the printing prees we wouldn't have books, magazines and newspapper that made our life easier to find out what is happening in the world. -
May 20, 1498
The age of exploration
During this period European ships travelled around the world in search of new trading routes. The first europeon explorer to sail to India was Vasco Da Gama. He strated new trading routes beteween India and Europe. This exchange of wealth knowledge and spices was a great influence between the two contitents Asia and Europe. This is a continous trend of importing exporting goods around the world today. -
Aug 15, 1500
Musket
The musket was ivented in the 1500s in Spain and was used in war and poaching animals. The musket fired a metal ball that could kill or hurt someone severely. If the musket wasen't invented we wouldnt have any war wepons and we would use swords and sheilds only. It is used for self protection. -
Aug 13, 1503
The Mona Lisa
The Iconinc panting The Mona Lisa was painted from 1500-1503. The artisist of the painting was Leonardo da vinci who lived in Florace. Their are many features about the Mona Lisa like the backround and the shadings used for the face. Realism was first introduced to the world. Many artists were influenced by this painting. Especially the way the eyes of Mona Lisa was painted, from whichever corner of the painting you see, the eyes are looking at you. -
Apr 12, 1511
The Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam is a painting by Michelangelo. The painting shows that god has given birth to Adam and makes him stay on earth as the first man. The painting gives a impersion of how god looks and gods can come close to humans but can't touch them. This fresco influenced painters and cartoonist to illustrate god from their own imagination. -
Jul 14, 1543
Copernicus's theroy of the earth revolving around the sun
Copernicus is a Renasiance astronomer who had a theroy of the earth revolving around the sun. He wrote a book about his theroy called De revolutionibus and died after it was published. His theroy was the first step for astronomers and astronauts to explore and devolpe Space studies. Today we know for the fact that the sun is the center of the universre and all the other planets are revolving around it. -
Aug 15, 1543
De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andres Vesalius
This book was based largely on human dissection, and it's transfromed existing concepts on atatomy. Vesalius was the first to explain how the nerves are conected to the muscles, how bones are nourished, and also the complex structure of the brain. His teaching gained acceptance by both doctors and surgeons, and surgery and anatomy became important branches of medicine. -
Oct 16, 1545
'The method of curing wounds caused by arquebus and firearms by Amborise Pare
This book is about diffrent ways to treat gun shot wounds and tying blood vesels. One of his methods to cure gunshot wound was to put boiling oil in the wound so it would stop bleding. Before Amborise Pare made his own methods of curing wounds, surgeons would apply hot iron to cure the wound wich was a painful way to cure the wound. It was because of him surgeons devoloped a healthy and a less painfull way of healing. This branch of studies is still being devoloped and researched. -
Shakesphere's influence on English language and literature
William Shakesphere was a writer, actor, poet and a dramatist. He is credited with 39 plays, including Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. He also wrote 152 sonnets, and several major pomes, wich are considred to be the most brilliant pecies of english literature ever written. His plays and poems are transalated into diffrent languages. His work has been read over genaration. He influenced the english language more then any other writter in the world. He created over 2,000 words and phases -
Telescope
Galileo may have invented many things, but his most famous invetion was the trelescope. The telescope was invented in 1609 and it's used to find planets and stars. With the telescope Galileo discovered the moon was a sphere with craters moutains, Jupiter has many moons, Saturn's rings, Venus. It's a significent invention because if the telescope wasent invented then we wouldn't know Jupiter, Saturn or Venus's features. -
First true newspapper
Every morning, without fail, the newspapper arrives at your home. But 400 years ago, there were no newspappers at all. It was between 1605 1610 that publications with information began appering on a fairley regular basis. Small news phamplets were produced only when some event was worthy occurerd. The first successively published tittle was 'The weekley news' of 1622. From this weekly newspaper we evolved to dailey news, TV news every hour and now the internet that updates every minute. -
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal was build in 1632 and was build by Sajahan. It is considred one of the 7 wonders of the world. The purity of the white marble, the exquisite ornamentation, the precious gemstones usedfor inlay, the bueatiful garden, and it's wonderful carvings all make the Taj Mahal unique. This kind of architecture influenced other architechs to use symetry and landscaping in creating modern world buildings.
