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The Catholic church's attempt to capture the holy lands from Islamic territory. Council of Clermont in 1095 resulted in the creation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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The “rebirth" of Europe, one of the most influential cities at the time was Florence Italy, the city was involved in the act of classicism, art, emersion of the middle class and humanism.
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Estimated to have killed up to 30-60% of the European population. The disease was spread through fleas and rats on traveling ships though to have originated from Genoese.
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Drastically decreased the price of books and allowed many more people to engage in literature. The printing press was widely produced after his invention, allowing for a new form of communicating information through media.
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A 58 day siege that was regarded as the end of the Middle Ages and a blow to the Christian faith.
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Three Spanish ships arrived along the Caribbean shore, was an attempt to find a new trade route to Asia by crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The goal was to explore and colonize the western world.
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Posted onto the Wittenberg church in Germany, list of complaints and criticism towards the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church
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Hernan Cortes a Spanish Conquistador, with the aid of nearly 600 soldiers conquered the Aztec empire ruled by Emperor Montezuma II, claiming the territory as Mexico City after 3 years of war.
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At the age of 67, Leonardo da Vinci died at Clos Luce on May 2, 1519. Leonardo was an accomplished Italian writer, revolutionary painter and inventor.
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Written by Nicholo Machiavelli outlining the way a prince should think and act. This book signified an attempt to save the empire of Italy from poor leadership.
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Henry VIII took away power from the church and split England’s ties with Roman Catholicism. The "Act of Supremacy" of 1534 made Henry VIII “Protector and Only Supreme Head of the church and clergy in England”.
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Jacques Cartier sailed in an attempt to find precious metals in the notorious Northwest Passage. Instead he landed in Newfoundland where Cartier claimed parts of Canada including the Gaspe Peninsula that allowed for the French to develop a colony in Quebec.
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Spanish nobleman, Ignatius Loyola, was a vicious soldier who founded the Jesuit Order. The Jesuit Order was a military group that travelled to protestant Catholicism throughout much of Europe.
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Nicholas Copernicus proposed his own heliocentric (sun-centred) model that challenged the widely accepted earth centred model.
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Pope Paul III called multiple sessions through the church. This council was the main force behind the Church reform which highlighted current issues in Roman catholic religion and ending of indulgences.
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Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer that used telescopes to view the solar system. Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment after discovering controversial topics of how the solar system moved with earth.
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Newton grew up to be a mathematician and great physicist who developed the "Newton laws of motion" and the theory of universal gravitation, he was known to have revolutionized physics.