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The first known use of plenary indulgences was in 1095 when Pope Urban. and Later, the indulgences were also offered to those who couldn't go on the Crusades but offered cash contributions to the effort instead
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Roughly 700 years. The official start is usually given as 1231 A.D., when the pope appoints the first “inquisitors of heretical depravity and Spanish Inquisition, which begins under Ferdinand and Isabella, doesn't end until the 19th century
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Johan Gutenberg was a German inventor. He built the first printing press. He made reading and education available for everybody. He printed the Gutenberg Bible
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gunton burge made the press so he could make his bibe the bonburng bible.
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the Humanism was the major intellectual movement of the Renaissance .And it spread to the rest of Europe after the middle of that century.
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Thomas More was an important advisor to King Henry the VIII of England. He believed any changes to the Catholic Church should only be made by the Catholic Church. He was tried for treason and beheaded.
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He was an artist and a painter. He painted the Mona Lisa.
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Michelangelo was Italian. He was a sculptor and a painter. He painted the Sistine Chapel.
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Martin Luther questioned the Catholic Church and its practices. He wrote 95 theses and posted them to the church door. This angered the church and he was excommunicated.
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Francis Bacon was the first to formalize the concept of a true scientific method, and the work The work of Nicolaus Copernicus
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William Shakespeare was an English poet and actor. He wrote many famous plays. Romeo and Juliet is one of those plays. Some of his plays have been made into movies.
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Galileo wanted to know how things worked and created the scientific method. He discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter and said that the earth orbits the sun. It is this thinking that got him house arrest.
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Isaac Newton was a scientist. He wondered how thing moved and why things fell down. He came up with laws of motion and created the theory of gravity.
