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The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet.
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The back death killed a 1/3 of Europe. It started in Asia and spread to Italy.
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The renaissance was a cultural bridge between the middle ages and modern history.
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Johannes Gutenberg's printing press started the Printing Revolution.
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Columbus set sail from Spain to find an new route to Asia. 2 or more months later he landed in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador.
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Da Gama was the first European to reach India by the Atlantic Ocean.
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The new world "America" was named after an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci.
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The Atlantic slave trade took place across the the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th - 19th centuries.
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The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman painted by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
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the Sistine Chapel was the large chapel built within the Vatican.
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The 95 Theses are a list of questions. Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church.
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Magellan was the first to sail around the world, but he died befor he could complete the voyage.
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Henry VIII founds Anglican Church in 1536, Anglican means of England.
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Trent, Bologna, and Northern Italy was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important councils. It was assembled by the Protestant Reformation.
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Jamestown was named after King James I. It was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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The Battle of Waterloo marked the defeat of France's leader Napoleon Bonaparte.
