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He was the first great thinker of the scientific revolution who thought we should experiment instead of just believe.
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The Magna Carta was the first document that gave average people rights and protection from a powerful monarch.
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The Islamic empire introduced many revolutionary ideas to the Europeans during the Dark Ages.
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Brunelleschi created the dome for the Duomo and used incredible building techniques never before used in the Renaissance.
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Leonardo Da Vinci was an incredible Renaissance artist, but he also had many ideas that other inventors wouldn't think about for hundreds of years.
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He was one of the first cartographers to prove that Brazil and West Indies did not represent Eastern Asia as previously thought.
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The printing press invented by Gutenberg was the first form of social media that allowed people to share ideas across Europe.
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Under the commission of Henry VII John Cabot explored previously uncharted territory, as is referred to as one of the first explorers to do so.
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The theses that Martin Luther nailed to the church were some of the first acts of independence from the overpowering Catholic church.
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This was the period that the church went through where they made many reforms so that the church was more spiritual than political.
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He was an Italian scientist who made his own powerful telescope that allowed him to see farther than anyone else had before, like the mountains and valleys of the moon. His work caused an uproar and he was put on trial for heresy and was then forced to recant his beliefs.
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Shakespeare introduced a new level of sophistication into literature, and evolved our understanding of literacy as well.
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Isaac Newton was an English scientist that proposed a law of universal gravitation. His contributions were some of the most important and relevant even in science today.
