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The era when the most dominate king or queens ruled.
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The background to Luther's Ninety-Five Theses centers on practices within the Catholic Church regarding baptism and absolution. Significantly, the Theses reject the validity of indulgences.
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An oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
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Martin Luther translated the Bible so that people could also read the Bible. People couldn't read the Bible becasue is was in Latin, so it was translated to german. This also made them able to read it so they didn't have to rely on what the presist was saying.
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Galileo first used the telescope around 1546 to prove the Heliocentic Theory
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The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1540, based on existing screw presses. Gutenberg, a goldsmith by profession, developed a complete printing system, which perfected the printing process through all its stages by adapting existing technologies to printing purposes, as well as making groundbreaking inventions of his own. His newly devised hand mould made for the first time possible the precise and rapid creation of metal movable type i
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The council issued condemnations on what it defined as Protestant heresies and defined Church teachings in the areas of Scripture and Tradition, Original Sin, Justification, Sacraments, the Eucharist in Holy Mass and the veneration of saints. It issued numerous reform decrees.
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This period in time marked the rebirth of humanism, and the revival of cultural achievements for their own sake in all forms of art, including music. The word "Renaissance" in itself is defined as a "rebirth"or a "reconstruction".
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The Thirty Years War is one of the great conflicts of early modern European history.The Thirty Years War consisted of a series of declared and undeclared wars which raged through the years 1618-1648 throughout central Europe.
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Louis the 14th,15th, and 16th were three of the most lide changing rulers in french history.
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Galileo Galilei observed space with the newly invented telescope. All of his findings supported Copernicus' heliocentric theory.
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Newton's Laws of Gravity states that everything is matter and that it is attracted to the grounf by gravity.
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Benjamin Franklin was the first person to use the term "battery" to describe an array of charged glass plates.
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The era of the steamboat began in America in 1787 when John Fitch made the first successful trial of a forty-five-foot steamboat on the Delaware River on August 22, 1787, in the presence of members of the Constitutional Convention.
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A time period when the French revolted from Versailles to Paris.
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The Age of Reason was an eighteenth-century movement which followed hard after the mysticism, religion, and superstition of the Middle Ages.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that pulls cotton from its seeds.
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John Deere designed the first steel cast steel plow that greatly assisted the Great Plains Farmers.
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On this date, Japan military preformed a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor of Honolulu.
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Enola Gay drops the bomb on Hiroshima
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Nelson Mendela was elected president after being in jail for 27 years.
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On this date, Allied Forces invaded Normandy to fight Nazi troops.
