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Vinice Nationality italian
Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle over the Silk Road which was an overland route to China. He worked for Kublai Khan, the Mongol Emperor, for seventeen years. He sailed home instead of going overland. He brought back ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain and silk. He told about the Chinese use of coal, money and compasses. He met Rustichello, a famous writer, who wrote about Marco Polo's travels in a book called THE BOOK OF TRAVELS. -
Nationality: Portugese
found a sea route to Africa which made them have better goods,food,and silk -
Nationality: Genoese
Christopher Columbus is credited for the discovey of America when he tried to prove the Earth was round by sailing to Asia -
age: 66, COD: no one could say that he died of old age, but his death was probably hastened by stress and worry, as he was deploying debt at the time of his death. But he was known as being murdered by his son
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Nationality: Portugese
discovered an ocean route from china to Australia -
Nationality Polish
Astronomer known for figuring out that the sun is the center of our solar system -
was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire, and founder of Lima.
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Born in: Sabrosa, Portugal
Nationality: Poteguese
First person to circumnavigate the globe -
Nationality : German
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Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland
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Nationality spanish
Founded the society of Jesus -
was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
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C.O.D: old age
note: on his death still believed he reached Asia -
Nationality : French
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Dies: Cebu, Philippines
Cause of Death: Killed by natives in the Philippines -
C.O.D: Malaria
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published by John Calvin
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Ignatius was the founder of the Society of Jesus
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This is considered to be the first great modern work of science and the foundation of modern biology. In it, Vesalius makes unprecedented observations about the structure of the human body.
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Copernicus' masterwork; he sets out the heliocentric theory (Theory that the sun was the center of the universe).
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Nationality dannish
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C.O.D: Pleurisy
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C.O.D: epidemic
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Nationality english
father of the the scientific method -
Nationality Italian
invented of the astronomical telescope -
nationality German
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Brahe's study of a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia and the discoveries of a variation in the inclination of the lunar orbit and of the fourth inequality of the moon's motion.
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Nationality french
said "I think, therefore I am" -
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These three laws became the foundation for modern day astronomy
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Nationality: Irish
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C.O.D: paralysis
