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The Crusades were a series of religious wars that took place in the southern part of France. The purpose of the Crusades is because the Pope had called upon the western Christians to help aid the Byzantine Empire to victory in recapturing the Holy Land from the Muslims.
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Genghis Khan was one of the most ruthless leaders in all of Asia. He was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death.
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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance. He craved masterpieces such as the Equestrian statue of Gattamelata, Zucone, Saint Mark, etc.
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The printing press was the first way of getting the word out to the public, and when Gutenberg invented it, it became one of the most useful inventions in our world today.
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Prince Henry, the son of Portugal's king, supports exploration and decides to set up a navigation school in 1419 on Portugal's coast. Nearly 40 years later, the Portuguese have trading posts along the west coast of Africa.
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Christopher Columbus supposedly discovers an island in the western hemisphere but was hoping to land in or somewhere near Asia to look for new trade routes. He instead discovers the Bahamas on August 3, 1492.
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Christopher Columbus's voyage lasted about two months long, and he traveled from Spain to what he believes to be Asia (it's really the Bahamas), on 3 very small boats; the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
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The Praise of Folly is basically a Latin essay published in 1511, and Erasmus criticized the Roman Catholic Church and was a member of the "humanist" movement in the 16th century.
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Machiavelli had written The Prince in the year of 1513, but the novel was only published after his death in 1532. The book had become a well known novel all around the world.
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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.
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Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, who only wanted to reform the Roman Catholic's concepts, but instead created a whole other religion.
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When the English and the Dutch began to migrate to Asia in the 17th century, the Dutch consisted of approximately 20,000 ships than any other nation in the year of 1600.
