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This was a new way of thinking. It was a rebirth of classical ideas and art and learning
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Leonardo was a great religious artist. He also painted the Mona Lisa
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The Ottoman empire was very strong and lasted for nearly 600 years.
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Michelangelo was a poet, sculptor, painter, and engineer. He is one of the most famous artists in the world.
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Christopher Columbus sails from Spain and discovers America. He was actually trying to find a trade route to Asia and found America by mistake.
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This settled conflicts between Spain and Portugal over land discovered by Christopher Columbus.
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Michelangelo sculpted the David. It is one of his finest works.
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Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. It shows scenes from the Bible
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Erasmus wrote this essay in 1509.
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In the early 5000s the Spanish conquistadors took over the Indian Empires. They had better weapons and disease killed millions of Indians. Cortez conquered the Aztecs.
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A ruler of the Islam empire in India built the Taj Mahal for his wife's death.
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Pizarro was a Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in the New World
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This said that the sun was the center of the universe.
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Shakespeare wrote a lot of plays. This one was about Julius Caesar.
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Kepler said that planets traveled around the sun.
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Galileo used observation through a telescope to say that the earth went around the sun. A lot of people in the Church did not like this.
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William Harvey was a doctor who did a lot of research on people and animals and learned about blood circulation.
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Louis the XIV was called the Sun King. He was a very strong king and ruled for many, many years in France. He built huge buildings and taxed people a lot.
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A war in England was fought to see if the king or Parliament had more power. Oliver Cromwell led the Roundheads who thought Parliament should win. The war lasted 7 years. They killed the king.
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This is a book Thomas Hobbes wrote about government and it helped people think about new ideas.
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After Oliver Cromwell died, Charles II was made King of England.
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Isaac Newton thought about gravity watching apples fall and did a lot of investigations about gravity.
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Peter the Great was a strong king in Russia. The capitol of St. Petersburg is where he established his government.
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Parliament replaced James II with William and Mary. There was no blood with this revolution which made it glorious.
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The Bill of Rights limited the power of the King.
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John Locke wrote a book anonymously about government with people and not a king.
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Montesquieu believed in a government with a constitution and no slavery and separation of powers.
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This book helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe.
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This document declared America's independence from England.
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The Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War and The American Colonies are independent.
