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During the fall of the Roman empire, the last Roman emperor was overthrown by a German ruler, the first of that area.
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The Black Death was a devastating pandemic that killed many people across Europe and had a great effect on culture and society of the time.
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The invention of the printing press allowed education to become more accessible to all people, and the availability of books was also far more widespread than it had been before.
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus set out to locate a direct route from Europe to Asia, but what he actually stumbled upon is known today as the United States. He is also credited with much of the discovery of the western hemisphere.
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Vespucci located what turned out to be an entirely new continent, now known as America, which he thought to be the eastern coast of Asia at the time.
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The Mona Lisa is an extremely mysterious painting due to the alluring smirk on the face of the woman depicted. Many art analysts and scholars have said that it looks like she is hiding some sort of secret or some important information.
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The School of Athens was a painting that had within it some of the greatest thinkers and artists from the Renaissance depicted interacting with each other and discussing various things as well as working on projects.
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Ponce de Leon is known for being the first explorer to make a settlement on Puerto Rico and discovering what is now known as Florida, a part of the present day United States.
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When Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the church door, he was pointing out all of the unethical deeds that the Church had been carrying out, such as emitting indulgences.
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Galileo was a great scientist who is credited with perfecting the telescope and analyzing the night sky. He proved previous theories wrong, that the Earth was the center when in truth it is the Sun.
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Romeo and Juliet was a tragic play about two young people who were in love, but they were forbidden from being together by their parents.
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Sir Isaac Newton had been sitting under a tree when an apple fell next to him according to legend, and this set him off to do many mathematical calculations and scientific experiments to come up with the Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation.
