Chaper 1 and 2

By Ryan Hallsted
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance in Italy

    Men and women in Italy hoped to bring back to life the culture of classical Greece and Rome. The contributions made during this period led to innovative styles of art and literature. It also led to new values, such as the importance of the individual.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1399

    Bubonic Plauge

    In the 1300's the bubonic plauge stuck city states hard. It killed 60% of the population. This brought economic changes. With less laborers, survivors could demand higher wages. With few oppertunities to expand business, merchants began to persue other intrest, such as arts.
  • Nov 30, 1345

    Bubonic Plauge Picture

  • Nov 30, 1433

    Rennaissance in Italy Picture

  • Period: Jan 1, 1452 to Dec 31, 1519

    Leonardo de Vinci

    Leonardo de Vinci was a painter, sculpter, inventer, and scientist. Considered a true Renaissance, he was also interested in how things work. He studied how mucles move and how veins anr in a leaf form. Only 17 of his painting survived and they could tell that he was a true genius
  • Dec 10, 1455

    Leonardo da Vinci Picture

  • Period: Jan 1, 1494 to Dec 31, 1494

    Artistic Ideas Spread

    In 1494, a French king claimed the throne of Naples in southern Italy and launches an invassion through northern Italy. As the war dragged on, many Italian artists and writers left for safer life in Nothern Europe. Nothern European artists who studied in Italy carried Renaissance ideas back to their homelands.
  • Nov 30, 1494

    Artistic Ideas Spread Picture

  • Period: Jan 1, 1509 to Dec 31, 1547

    Henry VIII wants a son

    1509 He marries Catherine of Aragon. 7 yaers later he get a daughter named Mary. In 1527 He wants to divorce his wife, but the pope refusses him from doing so. Henry reforms Parlament, and dismantles the pope's power just 2 year later. 1531 Henry became head of church. Has a total of 6 wifes and none would bare him a son.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1512 to Dec 31, 1514

    Ottomas take Islam's holy cities

    Selim the Grim,came in power in 1512. He was an effectiv sultan and a great general. In 1514, he defeated the Safavids of Persia at the battyle of Chaldiran. Then swept south through Syria and Palestine and into North Africa. Selim captured Mecca and Medina, holly cities of Islam, and finally took Cairo. The great civilazation of Egypt was now a part of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Nov 30, 1513

    Ottoman take Islam holly cities Picture

  • Period: Oct 30, 1517 to Oct 31, 1517

    The 95 Theses

    In 1517, Luther decided to take a public stant against the actions of a friar named Johann Tetzel. Tetzel was raising money to rebuild St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. He did this by selling indulgences. It released a sinner from preforming the penelty that a priest imposes for a sinner. Tetzel gave people the impression that they could by their way into heaven. In respones to this luther wrote 95 Theses, or formal statments.
  • Oct 31, 1517

    95 Theses Picture

  • Period: Jan 1, 1520 to Dec 31, 1520

    Pope threatens Luther

    In 1520 Pope Leo the 10th issued a decree threatening Luther with excommunication unless he took back his statements. Luther did not take back a word. Instead his students at Wittenberg gathered around a bongfire and cheered as he threw the pope's decree into the flames. Leo excommunicated Luther
  • Dec 31, 1520

    Pope threatens Luther Picture

  • Period: Jan 1, 1521 to Dec 31, 1522

    The Emperor's Oppostition

    Charels V, a devoted Catholic summond Luther to the town of Worms in 1521 to stand trial. Told to take back statements, Luther refused. Month later Luther made a speach, Charels issued an imperial order. It declared Luther an outlaw and a heretic. Returned in 1522, many of his ideas were already being put into practice. His followers became a seprate religious group called Lutherans.
  • Dec 31, 1522

    The Emporrer opposition Picture

  • Nov 30, 1533

    Henry VIII wants a son Picture

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    A Safavid Golden Age

    Shah Abbas took throne in 1587. He created the golden age for the Safavid from best of Ottoman, Persian, and Arab worlds. Reformed aspects of both military and civilian life. He built a new capital at Esfahan. Shab Abbas made a mistake that the Ottoman monarch Suleyman made. He killed or blinded his ablest sons.

  • Golden Age for Safavids Picture