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this is the age of exploration
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prince henry of portugal was born. he founded the school of navigation in portugal.
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When it was time for him to choose an heir, Yongle very much wanted to choose his second son, Gaoxu. Gaoxu was an athletic warrior type that contrasted sharply with his older brother's intellectual and humanitarian nature
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heng He's first voyage departed July 11, 1405, from Suzhou. it would be a good voyage
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it is made of marble and is of david from david and goliath.
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it was invented by johann gutenburg. it helped improve the literacy rate greatly.
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the turks took over constantinople in 1453. this marked the end of the roman empire
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it was fought on french soil and was actually a succession of wars.
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he reached it in 1488. it was important.
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it was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492, during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. It ended with the defeat of Granada and its annexation by Castile, ending Islamic rule
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Columbus "discovered" the West Indies in 1492, but didn't discover the mainland of the America's until his third voyage in 1498, and that was South America, on present-day Venezuela.
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he lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Spain. The treaty was ratified by Spain.
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Reaching the legendary Indian spice routes unopposed helped the Portuguese Empire improve its economy that, until Gama, was mainly based on trades along the Northern and coastal West Africa.
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davinci started the mona lisa in 1503 in florence italy
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america was named after him. he mapped america
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he started painting in 1508. it has various stories of the bible
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it is a famous painting by rafael that actually has him in it
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the prince was written by machiavelli. it was published 5 years after death
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Blocked by his enemy the governor in Cuba Cortez decided in Oct. 1518 to go with his own force of 600 troops, the governor tried to stop him but he went anyway
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this was an important book
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On November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lures Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor's honor and then opens fire on the unarmed Incans.
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24, July 1534. At Baie de Gaspé, Jacques-Cartier declared the new territory he found for the King of France.
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Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard
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Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine.The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch raised as a Protestant. During Edward's reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council, because he never reached his majority
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Nick was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.
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Mary was born on 18 February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, London. She was the only child of King Henry VIII of England and his first wife Catherine of Aragon to survive infancy. she was known as bloody mary.
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Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a local noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was its first Superior General.
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Known in Spanish as "Philip the Prudent" (Felipe el Prudente), his empire included territories in every continent then known to Europeans and during his reign Spain was the foremost Western European power.
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Elizabeth's life was troubled from the moment she was born. Henry VIII had changed the course of his country's history in order to marry Anne Boleyn, hoping that she would bear him the strong and healthy son that Catherine of Aragon never did. But, on September 7, 1533 in Greenwich Palace, Anne bore Elizabeth instead.
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the Dutch Revolt was the successful revolt of the Protestant Seventeen Provinces of the defunct Duchy of Burgundy in the Low Countries against the ardent militant religious policies of Roman Catholicism pressed by Philip II of Spain
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it made spain not be the best power or something
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Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy.
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The East India Company traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. The Company was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth in 1600
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James Bay on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. Hudson's crew mutinied, setting Hudson, his son and several other crew adrift in a small boat.
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The East India Company traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. The Company was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth in 1600
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new nether lands was named new york in 1603
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His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism.
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it is not certain how he died but it is thought to be a fever
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the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) was a series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe
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The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists
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louis becomes king
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he Grand Embassy (Великое посольство in Russian) was a Russian diplomatic mission, sent to Western Europe in 1697-1698 by Peter the Great.
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The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster.
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The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum
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1663: First serious slave conspiracy in Colonial America
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the Spanish Netherlands was repeatedly invaded by the french.
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The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England
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he War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was fought between two alliances of European powers, including a divided Spain,
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in 1716 Voltaire was arrested and exiled from Paris for five months. From 1717 to 1718 he was imprisoned in the Bastille for lampoons of the Regency.
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its baron von montesqeui
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was a German-Polish[1][2] physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the mercury thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.
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Frederick the Great remains one of the most famous German rulers of all time.
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In 1750 an elaborate prospectus announced the project, and in 1751 the first volume was published.
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the French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War. the name refers to the two main enemies of the British: the royal French forces and the various American Indian forces allied with them
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The Seven Years' War was a world war that took place between 1754 (in North America) and 1763. It involved most of the great powers of the time
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The Boston Tea Party (referred to in its time simply as "the destruction of the tea" or by other informal names and so named until half a century later,)
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He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state.
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was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in Russia after Catherine II seized power in 1762.
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Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty
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the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, October 19, 1781 at Yorktown. The fire on Yorktown from the allies was heavier than eve
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wow what a spectacular day, words can't even describe this wonderful event
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The Constitution was signed by 39 of the 55 delegates on September 17, 1787.
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He died on 26 March 1827 at the age of 56 during a thunderstorm. His friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner, who was present at the time, said that there was a peal of thunder at the moment of death.
