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An artistic and philosophical movement starting in Italy.
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The Columbian Exchange happened within this timespan
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Prince Henry of Portugal went on a trip to Africa and brought back a lot of gold.
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Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press allowing the widespread use of the Bible in different languages.
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The European exploration took place in this general timespan.
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Prince Henry of Portugal sailed to the tip of Africa, Cape Verde, where he realized that Africa didn't go on forever.
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Christopher Columbus tries to go to the Indies but ends up in Cuba.
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Christopher Columbus voyaged to and explored Hispanola.
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Leonardo Da Vinci Finishes the Last Supper.
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Vasco Da Gama discovered new sailing routes that we still use today while trying to get to India.
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Vasco Da Gama traveled to India and got lots of spices.
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A lot of Arabians were mad that a lot of Muslim sailors died on Da Gama's journey so they killed all of the members of the trading post.
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Vasco Da Gama lead ships to attack the Muslims and forced their leader to peace.
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Leonardo Da Vinci finished working on the Mona Lisa.
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Michelangelo finished the Statue of David.
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Hernan Cortez Traveled to the West Indies.
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A German mapmaker named the new world America after Amerigo Vespcci.
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Catherine and King Henry got married.
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Desiderius Erasmus's book Praise of Folly was published.
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Michelangelo finished his work on the Sistine Chapel.
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Martin Luther nailed the 95 Thesis to the church door.
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Hernan Cortez landed in Mexico.
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Francisco Pizarro led the battle of Cintila against the Mexicans and won.
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Cortez and his men killed Aztec warriors during a religious festival.
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Ferdinand Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to sail across the Pacific Ocean.
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Cortez conquered the Aztecs.
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Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines.
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Hernan Cortez gained control over Mexico.
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Francisco Pizarro caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
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Magellan's crew were the first to circumnavigate the world.
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Jacques Cartier traveled to Newfoundland.
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The Incan empire was conquered by Francisco Pizarro.
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Anne and King Henry got married.
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Hernan Cortez discovered the peninsula of California.
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A group of religious missionaries were founded by St. Ignatius.
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King Henry VIII made the first Anglican church of England.
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Jacques Cartier was hired to find a faster and more efficient path to Asia.
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Jacques Cartier went to what he thought was Asia but was actually Canada.
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Jacques Cartier traveled back to what he thought was Asia for the second time where he realized that it was a completely different land.
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Jane and King Henry got married.
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Pope Paul III recognized the Jesuits at this time.
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Anne and King Henry got married.
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Catherine and King Henry got married.
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Jacques Cartier went back to Canada for a third time where he got what he thought was riches. When he got back to his home a year later he realized that they weren't riches at all just tricksters.
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A time in history where many different scientific advancements were made.
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Catherine and King Henry got married.
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Nicolaus Copernicus came up with the Heliocentric theory.
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The council of the Roman Catholic Church got together in Italy 3 different times in this timespan.
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In the french civil wars Huguenots were attacked.
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There were many Calvinist churches at this time due to John Calvin.
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Queen Elizabeth I made the Anglican church the official church of England.
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Francis Drake sailed with Captain Lovell to the Caribbean for a slave trade.
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Francis Drake sailed with John Hawkins to the new world where he got captured and escaped.
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Francis Drake sailed to the West Indies in search for gold.
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Francis Drake traveled back to the Indies and got a lot of gold.
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Francis Drake discovered Northern California.
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Queen Elizabeth tells Francis Drake to attack lots of Spaniards.
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Kepler published Cosmographic Mystery which was the main ideas for his three laws of Planetary motion.
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William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet made its debut.
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An intellectual movement with enlightened thinkers trying to continue the work of 17th century thinkers.
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The premiere date of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
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Johannes Kepler discovered the first law of planetary motion.
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Galileo Galilei invented the telescope.
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At the age of 8 king Louis becomes king of France.
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Miguel De Cervantes had Don Quixote published.
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William Harvey announced his discovery of blood circulation in the body.
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Charles I becomes king of England and Scotland.
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Parliament passes laws to limit royal power in England.
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The English civil war was fought by the Royalists and the Parliamentarians.
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King Louis XIV is king of France.
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Oliver Cromwell imprisoned King Charles I.
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The puritans tried Charles for treason against Parliament and he was executed.
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Oliver Cromwell had the King Executed.
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The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes was published.
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Oliver Cromwell dissolved Parliament.
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Cromwell’s New Model Army began defeating the Cavaliers.
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Charles II became king of England.
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Issac Newton begins to consider the idea of gravity.
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King Charles II passed the law Habeas Corpus.
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Peter the Great becomes the king of Russia.
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William and Mary became the leaders of England.
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John Locke finished Two Treatises of Government.
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The overthrow of King James II by William and Marry without bloodshed.
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Peter the Great pushes westernization.
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The Palace of Versailles was built by King Louis XIV.
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King Fredrick became the king of Prussia.
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The Spirit of Laws by Baron Montesquieu was published.
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King Frederick begins the Seven Year War.
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The Candide by Voltaire was written.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the Social Contract.
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Everyone was part of the three estates.
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An angry mob attacked a prison letting many prisoners free.
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King Louis and his family tried to escape Paris in order to start a counter-revolution.
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Radicals are taking over the Parisian government.
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Robespierre starts the reign of terror by cutting off the king and his family's heads with a guillotine.
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Moderates regained control of the government and started up a new government, and wrote a new constitution.
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Napoleon became the Emperor of France.
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Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.
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Eugene Delacroix painted the Death of Sardanapalus.
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Eugene Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People.
