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Defeated Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and established a Viking state, before losing to King Alfred when it tried to take his kingdom of Wessex.
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Colonized by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century.
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As the Danish kingdom became increasingly powerful, Viking raiders began to target the British Isles with a renewed ferocity.
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Viking feet may have been the first European ones to ever have touched North American soil.
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There is very little historic information on King Cnut even though he was the most powerful king in northern Europe in the early eleventh century. He was King of Denmark and England, for a time King of Norway and possibly lord of part of Sweden.
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The Viking age ended when the raids stopped. The year 1066 is frequently used as a convenient marker for the end of the Viking age.
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Turned Classical Poetry on its head by turning his verses to the Political arena attacking immoral Popes and hypocritical sinners, he cast them into his inferno.
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He was a devoted classical scholar who is considered the "Father of Humanism," a philosophy that helped spark the Renaissance.
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Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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Invented around 1439, Gutenberg's movable type printing press initiated nothing less than a revolution in print technology. His press allowed manuscripts to be mass-produced at relatively affordable costs.
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The Gutenberg Bible was among the earliest major books printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West.
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While Lorenzo de Medici craved power, he took the throne after his fathers spot after his death in 1469. Like his bloodline, Medici ruled through surrogates in the city council.
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Christopher Columbus Discovers America in 1492 Columbus led his three ships.
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Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands.
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Michelangelo sculpted the sculpture David and worked constantly for over two years to create one of his most breathtaking masterpieces.
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According to historians, Leonardo Da Vinci created the famous Mona Lisa between 1503 and 1517. The woman based off the painting is Lisa del Giocondo, a woman married to a wealthy silk merchant. Today, the original painting is held in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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In 1510, Augustine took a trip to Rome to represent monastery.
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While Raphael became the top most talented painter in his mid twenty's, he went on to do bigger better things. Between 1509 and 1511 Raphael created not only a painting, but created the marriage between philosophy, art, and science.
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