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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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African slaves were thereafter traded for raw materials, which were returned to Europe to complete the "Triangular Trade".
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Gutenberg invented the printing press which increased literacy rates.
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Christopher Columbus was an Italian mariner who sailed in the service of the King and Queen of Spain and made four voyages to the caribbean and South America between 1492 and 1504
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Leonardo Da Vinci began painting The Last Supper in 1495 in finished in 1498.
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The Pieta is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by the renowned artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
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Advances in architecture were made during the italian renaissance.
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Luther nailed his 95 Theses against the practice of selling indulgences to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
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Magellan set sail from Spain in an effort to find a western sea route to the rich Spice Islands of Indonesia.
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The Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés (also known as Hernando Cortez, 1485-1547) conquered the Aztecs with help from rival natives between 1519 and 1521.
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Henry VIII is one of the most famous kings in English history. He was the second Tudor monarch and was well-known for having six wives. His break with the papacy in Rome established the Church of England and began the Reformation.
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French navigator Jacques Cartier becomes the first European explorer to discover the St. Lawrence River. In 1534, Cartier was commissioned by King Francis I of France to explore the northern American lands in search of riches and the rumored Northwest Passage to Asia.
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Expansion of the protestant movement by believing that your life was already predestined.
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Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church
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Off the coast of Gravelines, France, Spain's so-called "Invincible Armada" is defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake.
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Henry VI granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic. In the Edict, Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity
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The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars in Central Europe between 1618–1648. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history, and one of the longest.
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Muhammad is almost universally[n 1] considered by Muslims as the last prophet sent by God to mankind.
