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It is said that a cargo ship brought rats with fleas and disease to China. Disease eventually spread and over a time period of 3 years, it wiped out a third of the world's population.
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The Renaissance was a period of European history that was approximately from the 14th to the 17th century. It began in Italy and eventually spread throughout the rest of Europe. Although, the invention of the printing press and availability of paper spread through the 15th century, Europe did not experience the changes of the Renaissance.
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Sandro Botticelli was a famous painter from the Early Renaissance.
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In 1450 Johannes Gutenberg made his first printing press.
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The Spanish Inquisition was one of the most deadly inquisitions in history.
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Mary I, Queen of England, also known as, Bloody Mary, was born on February 18, 1516. She was born in the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, United Kingdom. She grew up being isolated from her father during his divorce with her mother. She was strongly catholic and eventually turned on everyone who was not. She burnt many of them at the steak as a result of not being catholic. That's how she got the nickname "Bloody Mary".
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Queen Elizabeth the first died of blood poisoning on March 24 1603
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Mary was executed on February 8th 1587
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"De Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years, publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605. "
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William Shakespere was a poet from the late renaissance.
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"An english ship first sights the Spanish Armada out at sea near the Isles of Scilly"
