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He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and trade with other continents. He also created the school of navigation to help out Portuguese sailros.
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Yonglo moved the capital to Beijing and built as vast city known as the Forbidden City. Extended China's influence by sending Zheng He on many voyages.
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Zheng He's first voyage consisted of a fleet of 317 ships and 28,00 men. He traded many things to get animals in return.
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Donatello was one of the most famous renaissance men. His statue David, was Europe's first fully nude sculpture since classical times.
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France eventually defeated England by pushing them out of the territory. Lots of rebuilding was necessary because lots of Europeans had died.
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Christians could visit Jerusalem freely, so Pope Innocence III called a fourth crusade and he took down Constantinople.
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The Printing Press helped many copies of the same page to be made, which made book making quicker. Johan's invention icreased the literacy rates in Europe.
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The discovery of the passage around southern Africa was significant because Europeans realized they could trade directly with India and the other parts of Asia, by not taking the route through the Middle East.
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Isabel and Ferdinand entered Granada to receive the keys of the city and the principal mosque was reconsecrated as a church. The Treaty of Granada signed later that year was to assure religious rights to the Muslims.
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It led to the first European contact with America. They Europeans had a big impact in the historical development of the modern Western world.
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Divided the new land discovered by Christopher Colombus between Portugal and Spain.
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This event is famous because he was the first European to reach India by an all sea route.It also paved the way for the Portuguese to establish a long lasting colonial empire in Asia.
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This was important because it gave Europeans an idea of what the New World looked like, Map makers named America after him.
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The Mona Lisa was considered one of the best paintings created, but was actually never a finshed product. Leonardo was a true renaissance man and an inspiration for being a well-rounded person.
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Raphael was a very skilled painter during the renaissance. School of Athens, is considered the best example of the Renaissance's intent.
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The Sistine Chapel is one of the most elegant paintings because it is in the biggest church in the world. Michelangelo had to paint the painting lying on his back with just a candle for his light.
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Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" to give instructions to rulers on how to rule successfully. His book helped literature expand.
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Luther was upset by a misguided church so he posted his list of 95 things wrong on the church doors, so he got excommunicated by Pope Leo X. As a result he creates his own church (Lutheran), which starts the protestant reformation.
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Cortes claimed the land for the Spanish empire. As he made his way through the land Cortes recieved more soldiers and acquired more horses for his group.
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The first revolt was on Christopher Columbus's son.The slaves burnt the sugar presses and escaped.
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He trapped Atahualpa by luring him to a feast in the emperor's honor and then opened fire on the Incans. Pizarro captured Atahualpa and forced him to convert to Christianity before killing him.
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His young life was disrupted by struggles for power among the boyars of Russia. The boyars fought to control him but Ivan seized power and crowned himself Czar.
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His first voyage helped change the French conception of North America. It was believed that the area’s only value was its fisheries he reported that there were fertile lands and the possibility of mineral wealth.
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Anne was the second wife of King Henry VII to be killed. Anne also gave birth to Henry's second daughter Elizabeth, who later became Queen.
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Edward was the first son of King Henry. He became King at the age of 9, but inherited economic problems and distrust of his people. He died at the age of 15.
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Ignatius created the daily guide for how Catholics should live. His followers were called Jesuits, they spread the teachings to others about how to live as a true catholic.
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As Queen Mary executed many important protestants, so she was called "Bloody Mary." Established the Catholic Church as Queen.
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Elizabeth was the second daughter of King Henry to become Queen. During her time as Queen she re-established the Anglican Church.
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During a violent quarrel he killed his oldest son and heir. When Ivan died three years late, only his weak second son was left to rule.
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Spain dispatched an attack on England in the summer of 1588. England was ready and their ships outmanuvered the Spanish vessels made significant damage to the ships. The defeat of the Armada was a very big event.
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British joint-stock company that was formed for trade with the East Indies but ended up trading with only one Indian subcontinent. The East India Company traded mainly in cotton, silk, salt, and tea.
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It is considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world. They would trade goods with Asia and bring them back to Netherlands.
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Hudson planned to use his Discovery to further explore Hudson Bay with the continuing goal of discovering the Passage. But most of his crew wanted to return home. So his crew mutinied and sent Hudson away on his own boat with his son.
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Considered the best Norther European writer to live. He was a great author because of his immense vocabulary and his ability to describe.
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It was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history.There really wasnt a complete reason it started.
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Cardinal Richelieu made up for all of Louis weaknesses. He became in effect the ruler of France and was a very hard working leader of the catholic church for several years.
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It compared the Copernican system with the Ptolemaic system. In the Copernican system the Earth and planets orbit the Sun, while in the Ptolemaic system everything in the Universe circles around the Earth.
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A method of radical doubt where the reader begins to doubt all external objects of sense perception and focus only on what the mind 'clearly and distinctly' perceives to be true.
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Started because Charles tried to arrest Parliament's leaders but they escaped, Mobbers raged outside his palace and he fled to London. Supporters and opponents of King Charles fought.
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He wasn't exactly the true ruler but most of the people wanted him to be because they didn't like Mazarin. When Cardianl Mazarin died Louis finally took full control.
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They brought Charles I to trial fo rtreason. They found him guilty and sentenced him to death. The execution was revolutionary.
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Addresses the questions of the origin of society and the authority of the state over the individual. Social contract arguments say that individuals have surrender some of their freedoms in exchange for protection of their remaining rights.
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Louis loved to surround himself with luxury so he built the Palace.Everything about the palace was immense and luxurious. It was like a small royal city.
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Settlers lived together peacefully in New York but there was a short period of English rule when the Netherlands got the settlement back. New York was returned to the English and became the first city in the colonies to receive a royal charter.
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On his third trip to America La Salle canoed down the Mississippi and at the mouth of the river he buried an engraved plate and a cross claiming the territory for France.
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States Newton's laws of motion, forms the foundation of classical mechanics, also Newton's law of universal gravitation, His book is regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science.
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To make clear the limits of royal power, parliament darafted a bill of rights. William officially consented to these and other limits when he signed.
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He visits Russia to get ideas of how to get away from a feudalistic system. His ultimate goal is Westernization.
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The war was very costly and dragged on until 1713.The big winner in the war was Great Britain, because they reicieved territories and permisson to trade slaves.
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The existence of the city was in jeopardy as the construction commenced during the Great Northern War. The building of St. Petersburg is mainly due to the passion that Peter the Great invested in the city.
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Important because we use it temperature for a lot of activities in our daily lives.
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In theory she was supposed to be guaranteed a peaceful reign. Instead she faced years of war against Prussia.
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He modernized the Prussian civil service and promoted religious tolerance during his reign. Frederick patronized the arts and philosophers, and wrote flute music.
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A lot of people use the Encyclopedia to look up past events and this is important because Denis was the first man to publish it.
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It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected many nations. The war was driven by the antagonism between Great Britain and the Bourbons resulting from overlapping interests in their colonial and trade empires.
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She argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as normal and imagines a social order founded on reason.
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Britain was the sole winner of the war. France lost its colonies in North America and Britain gained sole economic domination of India.
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Economy depended on serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and private landowners led to increased levels of reliance on serfs. When there was rebellions she made it stop.
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The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Intolerable Acts, which ended local self-government.
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He isolated an air that appeared to be completely new but it is hard to find out exactly when because of all his long experiments taking place. We breathe oxygen.
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Helped gain America's independence form Britain. Created by Thomas Jeffersonand voted on by congress to declare independence.
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Don Giovanni is currently tenth on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide. It has also proved a nice subject for writers and philosophers.
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The first three Articles of the Constitution establish the rules and separate powers of the three branches of the federal government the last four Articles frame the principle of federalism.
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An important figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music. One of the most famous and influential of all composers.
