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  • Period: 1096 to 1291

    Crusaders are Fought

    Started in 1096 - 1291. A religous war the Christians vs Muslims. Tried to regain their holy land Palestine. It was unsuccsessful but opened trade routes
  • Renaissance Begins
    1300

    Renaissance Begins

    It means the rebirth. Started in 1300 - 1600 and it was in Italy. It started the protestant and catholic revolution.
  • 100 Year War Begins
    1337

    100 Year War Begins

    It started in 1337 - 1453. It was England vs France. Since Charles IV from France died without a son Edward III from England believed he should be the new kind through his mother which started the war.
  • Black Death Begins in Europe
    1340

    Black Death Begins in Europe

    It reached Europe around the 1340s. The estimate kill count was around 25 million people.It was a bacteria infection that were mostly found in rodents.
  • Johannes Gutenberg printing press
    1400

    Johannes Gutenberg printing press

    Invented the printing press in the mid 1400s. Only the wealth could afford it. The first thing he printed was the bible.
  • Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake
    1431

    Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake

    Said to be the savior of France and she was a peasant. They burned her for heresey. She died at age 19 she was at Rouen by the English on May 30, 1431.
  • Fall of Constantinopole
    1453

    Fall of Constantinopole

    It was when the Ottoman took over the Constantinople, Happened on May 29, 1453 in the Capital City Byzantine Empire, The man who commanded them was Sultan Mehmed II he was 21 at the time.
  • Start of the Spanish Inquisition
    1478

    Start of the Spanish Inquisition

    Started in 1478 to 1834, established to combat heresy in Spain, Spanish Inquisition served to consolidate power in the monarchy of the newly unified Spanish kingdom
  • Period: 1491 to 1547

    King Henry VII Reign

    Henery VIII was born on June 28, 1491 died on January 28, 1547, presided over the beginnings of the English Renassiance and the English Reformation, had six wives
  • Christopher Columbs lands in the New World
    1492

    Christopher Columbs lands in the New World

    Claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain he got there trying to find a westeren ocean route to China, He made a total of 4 voyages to the Americas, He was the one that lead to the Columbian Exchange
  • Mona Lisa Completed 1506
    1506

    Mona Lisa Completed 1506

    Painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, Started the painting on 1503 and finished in 1506, Believed to be the wife of Franseco del Giocondo
  • Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel
    1508

    Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel

    Its renowned for its renaissance art it attracts 5 million people per year, It took four years for him to finish the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo was commanded to do it
  • "The Prince"
    1513

    "The Prince"

    It was made by Machiavelli published in 1513, It was too show how to create power, create a state, and keep it, it was to provide a guide for people. It made his name Machiavelli be used as a synonym for cunning, duplicity, or bad faith
  • Battle of Chaldiran
    1514

    Battle of Chaldiran

    Started in August 23,1514, The Ottomans won over the Safavids of Iran and went to control Anatolia, heralded the start of a long war between the rival Muslim powers for control of Anatolia and Iraq
  • Matin Luther post 95 Thesis
    1517

    Matin Luther post 95 Thesis

    He put his book on the churches door so that everyone could see it. Luther got condemned from his church. When they went to kill him he got hidin by the prices and what he did was translate the bible.
  • Cortez Defeats Aztects
    1521

    Cortez Defeats Aztects

    Cortez was a Spanish conquistador or conqueror, he was able to conquer the Aztec empire in 1521 and clamed Mexico, He also helped colonize Cuba and Governer of New Spain
  • Peace of Augsburg
    1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    First permanent legal basis for the coexistence of Lutheranism and Catholicism in Germany, The peace allowed allowed the state princes to select either Lutheranism or Catholicism as the religion of their domain and permitted, It was promulgated on September 25, 1555
  • William Shakespeare Death
    1564

    William Shakespeare Death

    Born on April 26 , 1564 and died on April 23, 1616 died at the age 52, He was an English playwriter and his plays were for everybody, His plays showed humanism
  • Spanish Armada 1588

    Spanish Armada 1588

    They set sail from Spain in July 1588, They went out for a mission and it was to overthrow the protestant Queen Elizabeth I and restore Catholic rule over England, There were 130 ships that carried 2,500 guns, they also had 30,000 soldiers and sailors.
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    Law promulgated at Nantes in Brittany on April 13, 1598, by Henry IV of France, helped grant large measure of religous liberty to his protestants, It went from Huguenot Calvinism to Roman Catholicism and brought an end to the violent Wars of Religion
  • Taj Mahal Completed

    Taj Mahal Completed

    It was made in India,The architects and craftsmen of the Taj Mahal were masters of proportions and tricks of the eye, Built from between 1632 and 1647 by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
  • Lord George McCartney Expelled

    Lord George McCartney Expelled

    Was born May 3, 1737 died March 31, 1806, First emissary to go to Bejing, He was sent to China to go negotiate additional trading rights for Britian
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    Opium War

    There were two wars that. First it was Britian vs China in 1839 - 1842. Second war was Britian and France vs China in 1856 - 1860 it was also called the Arrow war or Anglo French War
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    Counter Reformation

    Also called Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival. Against the Protestant Reformation and toward internal renewal. Took place roughly around the Protestant Reformation.
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    Columbian Exchange

    Columbius crew got washed up in the Bahamas discovering the "new world" and claiming it. They found plants, animals, and diseases.
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    Sultan Suleyman Reign

    Suleyman the Magnificent, Suleyman I or the Lawbringer were all his nicknames, born November 1494 April 1495died September 5, 1566, regarded as the most characteristic achievements of Ottoman civilization in the fields of law, literature, art, and architecture
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    Zheng He's Voyages

    Explored and traded across Asia and Africa, Chinese explorer who lead seven great voyages on behalf of the Chinese emperor, These voyages traveled through the South China Sea, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Red Sea, and along the east coast of Africa
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    Era of the Samurai

    Samurai translate to man who works, They followe a rule called Bushidu, They practiced zen Buddhism which spread from China to Japan
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    Queen Elizabeth I Regin

    Born on September 7, 1533 to March 24, 1603, The daughter of King Henry VII and his seconds wife Anne Boleyn, She took the crown after her step sister death Mary Tudor death
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    Slave Trade

    Transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans, It was the second of three stages of the triangular triangle, Most of them died when they were on the second stage of the triangular trade because they were crammed in the ship and they didnt care for them
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    Pizzaro defeats Incas

    They did in on a single day in 1532. They had less than 200 men and they were able to beat thousands of men. They trusted Pizarro but he backstabbed them and took the Emperor Atahualpa.