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He was a Portuguese royal prince, soldier and patron explorer.
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The Yongle Emperor formerly romanized as the Yung-lo or Yonglo Emperor, was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.
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He was important because he invented the printing press which made peoples life easier.
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Bartolomeu Dias was a Knight of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses, and sailing-master of the man-of-war.
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The Hundred Year's War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France for control of the French throne.
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The capture of Constaninople marked the end of the Roman Empire.
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The Granada War was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492
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Between 1492 and 1503, Columbus completed four round-trip voyages between Spain and the Americas, all of them under the sponsorship of the Crown of Castile.
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agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
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Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast.
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The statue of David symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodies in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state.
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It is "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most pariodied work of art in the world."
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The Sistine Chapel is a cornerstone work of high Renaissance Art.
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The printed copy of "The Prince" was not published untill five years after Machiavelli died.
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The background of the 95 Thesis centers on practices within the Catholic Church regarding baptism and absolution.
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Cartier's professional abilities can be easily ascertained. Considering that Cartier made three voyages of exploration in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing a ship, and that he entered and departed some 50 undiscovered harbors without serious mishap, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the period.
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Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England and was the second wife of Henry THe VIII.
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Edward VI was king of England and Ireland.
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Ignatius was a spanish knight from a local Basque family.
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as the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and Tsar of All the Russias from 1547 until his death.
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Her exucautions of protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobrriquet "Bloody Mary"
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During Philip's reign there were separate state bankruptcies in 1557, 1560, 1575, and 1596. This was partly the cause for the declaration of independence which created the Dutch Republic in 1581.
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Queen Elizabeth was sometimes called "The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana" or "Good Queen Bess"
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was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588 under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.
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originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and more properly called the Honourable East India Company,
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In October 1604, a bright new evening star appeared, but Kepler did not believe the rumors until he saw it himself.
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was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia.
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Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northwest Passage to Cathay (today's China) via a route above the Arctic Circle. Hudson explored the region around modern New York metropolitan area while looking for a western route to Asia while in the employment of the Dutch East India Company. He explored the river which eventually was named for him, and laid thereby the foundation for Dutch colonization of the region.
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William wrote alot of storys.
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was a series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history, and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history.
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Consecrated as a bishop in 1608, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a Cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered.
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The open-minded and lettered Sagredo in Galileo's dialogue was a close friend of the scientist.
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New Netherland was a 17th-century colonial province of the Seven United Netherlands that was located on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The provincial capita
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A book written by Thomas Hobbes and published in 1651.
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The Expeditions of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle were a series of trips into the Mississippi and Ohio Valley by French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle that began in the late 1660s and continued for two decades.
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He is famous for his work on the laws of motion, optics, gravity, and calculus.
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The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau.
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Navigation Acts were a continuation of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies.
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The goal of this mission was to strengthen and broaden the Holy League, Russia's alliance with a number of European countries against the Ottoman Empire in its struggle for the northern coastline of the Black Sea, hire foreign specialists for Russian service, and to order and acquire military supplies and weapons.
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was fought between European powers, including a divided Spain, over who had the right to succeed Charles II as King of Spain.
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Louis XIV (Louis the Great) was a monarch the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death.
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he determined his scale by reference to three fixed points of temperature.
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Frederick the Great was king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, and he stands as one of the greatest of the Enlightened Despots. He was an absolute ruler, but he lived under the principle that he was the "first servant of the state."
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It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius who developed a similar temperature scale.
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It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines.
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The Seven Years' War was a war that took place between 1754 and 1763 with the main conflict being in the seven-year period 1756–1763. It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines. In the historiography of some countries, the war is alternatively named after combatants in the respective theatres: the French and Indian War as it is known in the United States or the War of the Conquest as it.
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was an eighteenth-century English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.
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His life and reign, which were longer than any other British monarch before him, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia.
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a series of three partitions that took place in the second half of the 18th century and ultimately ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,
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was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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Independence Day, or the Fourth of July, celebrates the adoption by the Continental Congress of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.
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Requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court.
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was a German composer and pianist.
