History 7

By matthew.hearn
  • 1200

    Pope Urban II calls for the Crusades

  • 1200

    Commercial Revolution

    Change because of commerce/trade. Political, social, and economic power shifted was no longer held by wealthy nobles. Trade shifted from countryside to city and merchant class became powerful while the landlord lost power.
  • 1254

    Birth of Marco Polo

    Marco Polo was born to a family of merchants in Venice, Italy.
  • 1293

    Polos Travel Home

    The Polos and their accomplices start the journey back to Europe by ship with many Asian goods.
  • 1298

    Marco Polo Writes

    Marco Polo captained a galley-ship in a battle against Genoa, Venice's rival city and was captured as a prisoner of war. While in jail, he met a writer from Pisa who encouraged Marco to write about his travels in Asia. He then wrote a book called the Travels of Marco Polo which became a bestselling book.
  • 1300

    Renaissance Began

    There was a rebirth in Europe: a renewed interest in the ideas in thinking from ancient Greece and Rome.
  • 1440

    Invention of Printing Press

    Johann Gutenberg, a German, in around 1440 invented the printing press,
  • 1511

    Antonio Montesinos Sermon

    Montesinos, a Dominican friar denounces the Spanish treatment of the natives in Hispaniola.
  • 1542

    Bartolome de Las Casas; Destruction of the Indies

    He criticizes Spain's treatment of natives in the New World.

  • Renaissance Ended

    After 300 years, the Renaissance finally finished.