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The Roman Empire fell because they had a lot of problems, such as, weakening of the warriors, for one.
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A charter called the "Magna Carta" was signed by King John. It states things that make everyone in England equal and no one should be treated unfairly.
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Black Death hits Europe and makes people realize they don't have the answer to everything.
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Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press. More than 2,500 European cities had one. It spread vastly and impacted our modern world.
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Columbus sailed the ocean and discovered America! (Well, not really, there were Native Americans before him and he called them Indians because he thought he was in India.)
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Michelangelo creates the sculpture David which represents a Biblical hero and is favored in Florence
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Spanish conquistador went on an expedition for gold and the Fountain of Youth and discovered Florida. :)
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Leonardo Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa and is now the most famous painting ever.
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Martin Luther wrote the 95 Theses with the printing press and put them on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church, somewhere he knew everyone could see. It was explaining how the church shouldn't sell indulgences or your way into Heaven.
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Nicolaus Copernicus came up with the theory that the Earth is not the center of everything, but the Sun is. This went against Church's beliefs.
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Shakespeare completes his play "Midsummer Night's Dream."
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Galileo built a telescope and sees Jupiter's moons and how they do not revolve around Earth when everyone believed that everything revolved around Earth. This debunked the geocentric theory and confirmed Copernicus' heliocentric theory.
