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800 BCE
The songhai empire was established in africa
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105 BCE
Paper was invented by China
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700
Muhammad began the islamic religion
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1400
Gold, god, and glory were the three main reasons for exploration
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1415
Jan Huss was burned at the stake for being a heretic
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1440
Gutenberg
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1471
The Spanish campaign led the defeat of the Aztecs
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1477
Michelangelo painted the sistine chapel
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1488
Catholic monarch Ferdinand started the spanish inquisition
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1492
Christopher Columbus was sponsored by Queen Isabella to sail westward to reach Asia
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1498
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper
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1499
Michelangelo's sculpture the Pieta
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses to a church door
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1519
Ferdinand Magellan's crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe
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1521
Hernan Cortes
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1521
Pope Leo X excommunicates martin luther
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1526
Mughal empire began in india
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1529
King Henry VIII broke from the church in Rome and divorced his wife
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1533
Elizabeth I
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1534
Jacques Cartier explored the St. lawrence River to Montreal for France
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1536
John Calvin
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1545
Protestant
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1562
The act of supremacy divided the claims of France and spain
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Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada
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Henry IV of France
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Songhai Empire began in Africa
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Slaves
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Ferdinand II got France involved in Thirty Years’ War
