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1096-1291 a religious was between christian's and muslim's. Fighting over holy land. It was an unsuccessful crusades but it expanded trade routes
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1300-1600 Means rebirth. Where art started becoming more of a big thing (religious paintings except most northern paintings are non-religious) . Italy is the home of the renaissance (where is all began).
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1337-1453 Was a very long conflict between kingdoms of France and England. Several different king fought for the highest throne. Denied woman to French throne.
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started in 1347. The plague was a very contagious disease that killed millions of people (estimated of 25 million people) that all started in Europe by what they think started by a flea getting it from a rat and then biting a human.
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Zheng He took 7 voyages. Most were towards Asia but some were still in Africa. He sailed all 7 voyages from 1405 to 1433.
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Joan of arc was a devout saint of god that was burned at a stake. She was on trial for a year but then was charged with heresy for using magic to hear voices of saints telling her to do things. They said the voices she thought were saints were actually demons.
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Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440. His printing press idea is different because his was the first press that used movable metal blocks. The metal blocks helped be able to print more copies of books. The book that was printed the most was probably the bible.
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The Fall of Constantinople was when the Ottoman Turks army invaded the Byzantine Empire and soon the Empire came to an end when the army won.
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The Spanish Inquisition started in Spain on November 1, 1478. Ferdinand and Isabella used Catholicism to try and unite Spain. They asked the pope to start the inquisition to help purify people of Spain. They would drive out Jews and Protestants and other people who were not Catholic.
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Christopher Columbus landed in the New World in 1492. He landed on the now called Bahamas and another island Hispaniola.
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The Columbian started in 1492. It was a widespread transfer of animals,culture, plants, technology, and ideas.
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The slave trade lasted nearly 300 years.At first they would just take slaves without trading anything. Later on that led to the triangular trade which was the trade of good for slaves, slaves for raw materials and raw materials for more goods.
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Around 1503-1506 is when Leonardo da Vinci finsihed the Mono Lisa paintings. Da Vinci was a famous artist who also would study the human body (hired body snatchers to get some of the bodies) and had several designs for different machines.
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Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel (ceiling) between 1508-1512. Michelangelo also made the famous statue of David.
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King Henry is known for several different things while he ruled. One of them is him marrying his brothers widow Catherine. Catherine and him did not have a boy and later on King Henry wanted to get an annulment but the church would not let him. He was given control of a new church so he could get an annulment. (divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived) <his wife's
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The battle of Chaldiran was a battle that the Ottomans won against the Safavids of Iran. The Ottomans ended up gaining control of eastern Anatolia. This battle created a long war between the Muslims to see who could control Anatolia and Iraq.
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95 theses was nailed to the Wittenberg castle church on October 31, 1517. The 95 theses also known as the Disputation on the power and efficacy of indulgences was a list of basically all the wrong things the churches were doing (especially the indulgences) so Luther decided to make a list and show the church. Luther was later excommunicated and then ran away to Germany. The German princes hid Luther because they liked him. He also translated the Bible.
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Suleyman was known as one of the greatest rulers of the Ottoman empire. He was the only son of his father. He started his ruling with campaigning against christian powers in central Europe and Mediterranean.
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A book of how to obtain and maintain power. This book was published during the year 1532 by Niccolo Machiavelli.
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In 1532-1572 Francisco Pizarro sailed down to Peru and led his army to the Inca empire. He started a war with them using guns and other weapons the Incas had no clue existed. The emperor offered a room full of riches for his release. Pizarro ended up taking over the empire later on and sentencing the emperor to death.
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Queen Elizabeth's was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife who he decided to behead. Her reign was also during the time of William Shakespeare's plays. She is known as the "Virgin Queen" as she never married nor did she have kids.
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Also called the Catholic reformation, was the response to the Protestant reformation when they started teaching things not about the Bible. For example the things the church were doing that weren't good were selling indulgences, and that you had to do rituals, sacraments for salvation.
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Peace of Augsburg happened in 1555. It was a settlement within the holy roman empire. This settlement was temporary and let the princes decide what religion they wanted. (Lutheranism or Catholicism)
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The Spanish of Armada was about the Spanish taking 130 of their ship from Coruna and sail all the way to invade England under the command of Duke of Medina Sidonia.
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A samurai was a warrior of Japan. They were the highest ranking social cast at one point (that point being the Edo period) and made up the ruling military class.
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William Shakespeare was one of the best English play writers known. His plays consisted of showing humanism and emotions to large groups of people. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616.
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The Taj Mahal was built 370 years ago in 1631-1648. Shah Jahan built it in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal. The structure was built from raw materials that Shah Jahan could easily get his hands on.
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Lord George McCartney had the first British diplomatic mission to China. They went on this mission to try and open new trade routes and establish a permanent embassy in Beijing. The emperor denied all the requests.
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Two wars around the 19th century between China and British.The war was about the British trade of Opium
