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It began in Italy and it was a artistic and philosophical movement. Also it renewed interest in ancient Greek and roman literature and life.
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Gutenberg created the print and press so that more people could read the bible and read in general.
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They explored the three G’s. Europe competed to make money and get glory. Spain takes lots of billions from the New World then Spain suffered from economic problems. Also many people sailed across the ocean in search for gold and land.
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He sailed to the tip of Africa, Cape Verde, where they realized that Africa didn’t go on forever
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Set sailed for Indies but landed in Cuba
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Christopher set sailed for this place in search of gold and exploration
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Leonardo Da Vinci painted The Last Supper during the late 15th century.
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He discovered new sailing routes that are still used today while trying to land in India
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Was a period of time when Protestants demanded changes in the church.
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Leonardo Da Vinci painted the during the Renaissance. One of the most popular paintings ever created.
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Michelangelo made the Statute of David during the Renaissance
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Hernan Cortes traveled to the West Indies
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Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel during the Renaissance
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Desiderius Erasmus wrote the Praise of Folly to argue that some people in society were stupid.
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Martin Luther put the 95 Theses on the church door questioning the churches rules.
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Hernan Cortes lands in Mexico
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Francisco Pizarro led the Battle of Cintila against the Mexicans and won in that same year
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He becomes the first European to sail across the Pacific ocean
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Francisco was welcomed into the capital of the Aztec empire where he killed their leader and the Aztec empire fell due to him.
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Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines
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Hernan Cortes discovered the Peninsula of California
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Henry VIII started enforcing the idea of Anglicanism across the country.
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Jacques Cartier traveled to new found land
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Jacques Cartier found what he thought was Asia when in reality it was Canada
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St. Ignatius de Loyola founded this during the Counter Reformaton.
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It was the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
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Nicolaus Copernicus created the heliocentric theory. That is the idea where the sun is in the middle of the Solar System.
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John Calvin spread Calvinism across the country
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Elizabeth I establish the Anglican Churches
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He sailed with Captain Lovell to the Caribbean on a slave trading enterprise in 1566 and he sailed with John Hawkins to the new world where they were captured and escaped in 1567 in 1570 he sailed to the west indies in 1572 he went back to the west indies and made off with a lot of gold in 1579 he sails across the pacific and discovers the northern part of California from 1587-1595 queen Elizabeth orders him to attack a bunch of Spaniards
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Johannes Kepler published Cosmographic Mystery which was the basis for his three laws of Planetary motion.
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This play was based on two star crossed lovers that love each other so much they would die for each other. It was made by Shakespeare.
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The play Hamlet was set on the revenge of his uncle. And was also made by Shakespeare.
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The first law of this was discovered by Johannes Kepler.
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Galileo Galilei invented the telescope
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Miguel de Cervantes published Don Quixote which was about a middle aged man who wanted to become a knight.
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William Harvey announced his discovery of blood circulation within the body.
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Stemmed from conflict between Charles I and Parliament over an Irish insurrection.
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Cromwell’s New Model Army began defeating the Cavaliers
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Was executed by Oliver Cromwell in 1649
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It was a philosophical movement. The people that were involved thought they were illuminating human intellect and culture after the "dark" Middle Ages.
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Thomas Hobbes published the Leviathan which was about equal taxes and political theories.
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Cromwell dissolves parliament
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Isaac Newton begins to consider gravity during the Scientific Revolution.
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Charles II passed the law Habeas Corpus
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They began the Glorious Revolution in England
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John Locke wrote the Two Treatises of Government which was the concept of the right of revolution.
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This was when William of Orange took the English throne from James II in 1688. The event brought a permanent realignment of power within the English constitution.
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Peter the great begins westernization in Russia
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Louis XIV finished Versailles
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Baron de Montesquieu published the Spirit of Laws which was about political theory.
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Frederick the Great begins seven year war
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Voltaire wrote the Candide
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Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the Social Contract which was the theory of political community.
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People stormed the Bastille.
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It was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France.
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Louis was executed and the Reign of Terror began.
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Robespierre starts the Reign of Terror
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Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at Waterloo
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He created the pieces: The Death of Sardanapalus 1827 and 1830 Liberty Leading the People.
