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The Renaissance is a period in Europe that is considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history.
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Prince Henry started the first school for oceanic navigation.
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The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire.
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Ottoman Empire, empire grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Columbus led his three ships out of a Spanish port.
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A Spanish doctor named Nicolas Monardes wrote a book about the history of medicinal plants of the new world.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas was a treaty between Portugal and Spain in which they agreed to divide up all the land in the Americas between the two of them.
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He was the first European to reach India by sea.
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The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
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The 95 Theses were written by Martin Luther and are widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
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He was the first European to go all the way around the world.
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He conquered the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain.
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Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin by Desiderius Erasmus The essay was inspired by De Triumpho Stultitiae.
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The Mughal Empire was an empire established and ruled by a Persianate dynasty of Chagatai Turco-Mongol origin that extended over large parts of the Indian subcontinent and Afghanistan.
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He led his army up the Andes Mountains and reached the Inca town of Cajamarca.
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun.
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The Council of Trent was was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils.
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The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599.
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The basic tool that Galileo used was a crude refracting telescope
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William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood and his scientific and experimental approach to this matter.
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The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648.
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The Discourse on the Method is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise.
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The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum located on the southern bank of the Yamuna River in the Indian city of Agra.
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All objects attract each other with a force of gravitational attraction.
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The Church of England and the churches in other nations that are in complete agreement with it,