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Paper was invented during the Han Dyanasty and it spread slowly west through silk roads
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Jan Hus was burned at the stakes for being heretic and also being inpenitent and unrepentant for the accusations of heresy.
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The Printing Press was invented by Johannes Gutenburg in 1440 to deliver and spread the news of the Holy Church
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus was sponsored by Queen Isabella to sail west toward Asia but found a ¨New World¨ which is known as the Americas
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The Last Supper was a painting by Leonardo da Vinci ctreated in the refectory or "dining hall". It was then completed in 1498
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The Pieta was created by Michelangelo as a renaissance sculputre
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On this day, Martin Luther went to the Wittenburg Castle church door and nailed his 95 theses that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
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Magellan started his expedition from Spain to circumnavigate the world.
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Henry VIII broke from the chruch of Rome due to wanting to divorce his wife, Catherine and closed all monastaries and needed help from the protestant to accomplish this.
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Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River and Montreal in 1534
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The Council of Trent was a council of the Roman Catholic Church which it provided the main inpetus of the counter reformation.
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On this day, the Armada who were going to invade France, was defeated by Sir Francis Drake.
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The Edict of Nantes was issued on this day by Henry IV of France and that it granted Calvinist Protestants substantial rights in a predominantly catholic nation.
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France was involved in the 30 years war when Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II curtailed the religious activities of his subjects thus causing trouble among protestants
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The prophet Muhammed created this religion and also with it, the holy book of The Allah, this spread rapidly from the Arabian peninsula in under 30 years.