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A Plague often reffered to as "The Black Death" breaks out. It spreads across Europe do to insects, rats, and other mammals. The Plague kills millions of people.
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After The Black Death people are scarce. Everyone starts to realize that their life is absolutely awful. They start to make changes in their daily life to make it better. Artists start painting pictures that display their fantasy and culture, people start earning money and building breathtaking architectically genius buildings. Culture thrives once again and people start thinking of life as something greater than it was before.
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Brunelleschi creates linear perspective and other artists start to adopt his discovery and improve it to fit their standards. It heavily impacts many artist and forever affects modern art.
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Johan Gutenberg invents the printing press opening many possibilities for education, business, and religion. It opens possibilities for faster and more effective exchange of ideas and heavily impacts the Catholic Church.
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The jesuits are given the task to spread religion across the world. On their journey they are supposed to convert people to Catholicism.
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Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer discovers the Americas on his journey to Asia. He opens possibilities for exchange of ideas, animals, food, and other goods. His discovery also heavily impacts the population of the Native Americans.
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The exchange between The New World and The Old World begins. Lots of foods, spices, crops, animals, and ideas are traded back and forth form America to The Old World.
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Vasco De Gama reaches India after sailing under South Africa. He improves trade between Europe and Asia and makes it easier by creating stops for Sailors on the way.
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Martin Luther, a very religious monk, disagrees with the Catholic Church because of their sinful actions. He writes down the 95 things he disagrees with and stabs it on the entrance of the Central Church
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The Diet of Worms was an imperial council that was made to decide the fate of Martin Luther. It was held in Worms, Germany.
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William Tyndale publishes the New Testament in English Language and people find out that all along the Catholic Church has lied about what it said in the Bible.
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A critical meeting to gather ideas on reviving moral authority of the Catholic Church after the fall of their affection and authority on people.
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A triangular shaped trade route in which ships would leave America with American goods to go to Europe, and then go to Africa with European goods. At the end the ships would return to America with African goods and restart the cycle.
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John Locke came up with two rules for the government of America. The first rule was that the government had to take care of their citizens and the second was that they could punish any man that broke the law.
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I In 1776 delegates from the 13 original colonies met. They decided on writing the Declaration of Independence. The declaration followed the enlightenment idea that all people are born with certain rights.
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The French had to pay high amounts of taxes and had very little rights. Also, a big factor that played was that the government was about to be completely bankrupt. The citizens began revolting against the powerless government.
