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Religious wars directed by The Latin Church in the medieval period.
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Antioch lay on the crusaders’ path to Palestine. The city was strategically located and so, it could be used for supplies and other purposes. -
The Zengid ruler Nur-ad-Din Zangi came upon the Crusader army with reinforcements and attacked it. The crusaders were forced to retreat which resulted in a decisive Crusader defeat. -
It was fought between the forces of Saladin and Richard the Lionheart (King Richard). -
A global plague pandemic, in the medieval Europe, killing millions of people.
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Plague has infected soldiers, they die from the disease, Janibeg catapults their plague-infested bodies into the town to infect his enemies. -
Takes a great toll on all of Europe, claiming the lives of an estimated 25 million people by 1351, including half of the population of 100,000 in Paris, France. -
The plague awakes an anti-Semitic rage around Europe, causing repeated massacres of Jewish communities. -
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A period of time when the European nations began exploring the world. They discovered new routes to India, much of the Far East, and the Americas.
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It was built around the extant Church of Santa Reparata, so that there would be a place to say mass during the construction of the new church. -
It revolutionized the manufacturing of books, and also the studies of the arts and sciences. -
His Bible was the earliest major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. -
It was a siege of the city of Granada fought over a period of months leading up to its surrender. The city was captured by the combined forces of Aragon and Castile (recently united as Spain) from the armies of the taifa Muslim kingdom of Granada. -
Spanish colonists settled the island fifteen years later, and it fell into British hands in 1655. Although the Spanish introduced slavery to Jamaica, the British oversaw its development. -
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The sculpture is of the god of wine, who is holding a cup and appears drunk. The references to classical antiquity are clear in the subject matter, and the body of the god is based on the Apollo Belvedere. -
The painting depicts the last meal shared by Jesus and the 12 Apostles where he announces that one of them will betray him. When finished, the painting was acclaimed as a masterpiece of design. -
He propounded that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds. -
The Reformation was the start of Protestantism and the split of the Western Church into Protestantism and what is now the Roman Catholic Church.
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Cortés razed Tenochtitlan, building his own capital over its ruins, and proclaimed the Aztec Empire to be New Spain. Soon after the Spanish colonization of Cuba, a small army led by Hernán Cortés conquered Mexico from the Aztecs. -
The religious wars were cause by the Protestant Reformation in western and northern Europe. Between Catholics and Protestants. -
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Charles became emperor due to the fact that by paying huge bribes to the electors, he was the highest bidder. -
He was looking for a way out of his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, ignored the pope's warning. He went on to marry Anne Boleyn, leading to his excommunication of the most important schisms in the history of Christianity. -
The resurrection of modern-day science. Developments in various branches of studies, especially in chemistry, physics, math, astrophysics and biology.
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The invasion was repulsed. France had a long history of attacking the Isle of Wight. Campaign proved to be the last time to date that the French have attempted to take it. -
William defined these poles correctly and established that the earth behaves like a giant magnet. -
Galileo was under house arrest that he wrote one of his finest works, Two New Sciences, he summarized the work he had done some forty years earlier, on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials. -
That changed the map of Europe irrevocably. The peace was negotiated, from 1644, in the Westphalian towns of Münster and Osnabrück. -
European settlements of 1648, which brought to an end the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years' War. -
Newton concluded that light is composed of coloured particles which combine to appear white.