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400
Year 400
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Period: 400 to Nov 20, 1500
Middle Ages
It started with the fall of the Westen Roman Empire
Principle Events:
-> Call to Crusade
-> Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
-> Fall of Western Roman Empire
-> Great Schism
-> Muhammad receives first revelations
-> Norman Conquest
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476
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
It had a civil administration based in thriving cities with effective control over public finances. While its legitimacy lasted for centuries and its cultural influence remains today, the Western Empire never had the strength to rise again. -
500
Year 500
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Jan 1, 600
Year 600
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Dec 5, 610
Muhammad received first revelations
Muhammad is said to have been visited by the angel Gabriel who revealed to him a verse from the Qur'an. It was after this event that he proclaimed himself to be a prophet of Allah. -
Jan 1, 700
Year 700
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Jan 1, 1000
Year 1000
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Aug 18, 1054
Great Schism
is the medieval division of Chalcedonian Christianity into Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches, which later became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church -
Dec 25, 1066
Norman Conquest
The invasion and subsequent occupation of England by an army of Normans and French led by Duke William II of Normandy -
Nov 27, 1095
The Call to the Crusade
The First Crusade: Militar expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to gain the Holy Land which was taken by the Muslims -
Jan 1, 1100
Year 1100
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Jan 1, 1200
Year 1200
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Jan 1, 1300
Year 1300
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1500
The Renaissance
Transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era
The Middle Ages provided the bases for the modern Era; thus, the Renaissance marks the transition between the two periods.
Important events of the Renassince:
-> Black Death
-> Humanisms
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-> Fall of Religion
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Nov 21, 1300
Science Update
The invention of new instruments, such as the telescope, made fresh scientific discoveries possible. Above all, the printing press spread new ideas quickly and easily.
Especially significant in the Scientific Revolution were discoveries in astronomy. These discoveries would overturn the conception of the universe held by Westerners in the Middle Age. -
Nov 21, 1300
Art in the Renaissance
Renaissance art the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of that period of European history known as the Renaissance, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about 1400. -
Nov 21, 1309
Fall of Religion
The Scientific Method atracted many people that stoped beleiving in the lies of the church and started to beleive in the humanisms and the scientific method -
Period: Jan 1, 1337 to Nov 10, 1429
Hundred Years War
France and England fought for territory. This brought as consequence the improval of warfare such as the power of monarchs -
Period: Jan 1, 1347 to Dec 31, 1353
The Black Death
This was the most ruinous natural disaster, almost 50% of the population died. The trade decreases and the ones that remained alive had a very big economic increase -
Period: Nov 21, 1378 to Nov 21, 1417
The Western Schism
Was a split within the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417 -
Jan 1, 1400
Year 1400
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Dec 23, 1450
Humanisms
The dominant intellectual movement in the educated classes of Europe specialized in humanistic subjects:
-> Grammar (Chiefly Latin)
-> Rethoric (persuasive speaking and writting)
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Period: Apr 6, 1453 to
Age of Discovery
Period in wich Europeans explored Afreca and America. It started with the fall of Constantinople.
Main Events:
-> World Linked trade
-> A new World
-> The triangle Trade
-> Supply of Products
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Nov 21, 1453
Fall of the Estern Roman Empire
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Oct 12, 1492
A new World
We have an accurate abstract of the journal written by Bartolome de las Casas in the 1530s wich says that CHristopher Colombus arrived to this "unknown and exotic lands" and declared it "India".
After this new world will be conquer by the spaniards and will be named as America. -
Jan 1, 1500
Year 1500
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
The Scientific Revolution
A number of changes caused these philosophers to abandon their old views and develop new ones
Main Events:
-> The Ptolemaic System
-> Copernicus and Kepler
-> Galileo
-> Newton
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Nov 21, 1512
The Triangular Trade
the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British North America, especially New England, sometimes taking over the role of Europe. -
Nov 21, 1512
Supply of Products
A classic example would be the trade of sugar (often in its liquid form, molasses) from the Caribbean to Europe or New England, where it was distilled into rum. The profits from the sale of sugar were used to purchase manufactured goods, which were then shipped to West Africa, where they were bartered for slaves. The slaves were then brought back to the Caribbean to be sold to sugar planters. The profits from the sale of the slaves were then used to buy more sugar, which was shipped to Europe, e -
Period: Feb 14, 1517 to
The reformations
It started with the Martin Luther's Theses. It was the creation of new protestan catholic churches.
Important Events:
-> Martin Luther 95 Theses
-> The Black Death
-> The Western Schism
-> Fall of the Estern Roman Empire
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Nov 21, 1517
Martin Luther 95 Theses
This 95 Theses are considered the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. The disputation protests against clerical abuses, especially the sale of indulgences. -
Period: Aug 3, 1524 to
The Wars of Religion
The Hundred Years War was a series of Wars in Europe, following the protestant reformation.
Main Events:
-> The Radicals
-> French Wars of Religion
-> The thirty Years War
-> Peasants War
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Sep 16, 1535
Ptolemiac's Geography
It is a treatise on cartography and a compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire of the 2nd century. Ptolemy relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the Roman and ancient Persian empire. -
Sep 11, 1543
Copernicus and Kepler
Nicholas Copernicus published his famous book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Copernicus, a mathematician, felt that the geocentric system was too complicated. He believed that his heliocentric , or sun-centered, conception of the universe offered a more accurate explanation. Copernicus argued that the planets revolved around the Sun. -
Nov 21, 1544
Galileo's Theory
He was the first European to make regular observations of the heavens using a telescope. With this tool, Galileo discovered that the materials that "Heavenly Bodies" have is thge same that we can find in the earth. -
Mar 9, 1568
The 80 years War in the Low Countries
It began as a revolt of the Seventeen Provinces against Philip II of Spain, the sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands. -
Year 1600
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The Thrity Years War
Series of Wars for supremacyin the Holy Roman Empire. The Bourbons against the Hapsburgs (Holy Roman Empire) -
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Absolutism and Constitusionalism
Absolutism in France, and Constitusionalism in England.
Most important Events: (Absolutism)
-> The reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715)
-> Divine Right
-> Versailles
-> Religion Main Events: (Constitusionalism)
-> The Stuarts: James the First (1603-1625)
-> Charles I (1625 – 1649)
-> English Civil War (1642-1649)
-> The Commonwealth (1649-1659)
-> The Restoration: Charles II (1660-1685)
-> James II (1685-1688)
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The reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715)
He was a Bourbon from France he was well aware of the growing discontent of the French population against the absolute monarchy -
Newton's Theories
In the first book of the Principia, Newton defined the three laws of motion that govern the planetary bodies, as well as objects on Earth. Crucial to his whole argument was the universal law of gravity, which explains why the planetary bodies do not go off in straight lines but instead continue in elliptical orbits about the Sun. -
Year 1700
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The Enligthemment
The Enlightenment was an eighteenth-century philosophical movement lead by intellectuals who were greatly influenced by the achievements of the Scientific Revolution. They wanted to use the scientific method to understand better humanity -
Philosophes and Their Ideas
The intellectuals of the Enlightenment were known by the French name philosophe, meaning “philosopher.” Not all philosophes were French, and few were philosophers in the strict sense of the term. -
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The Enlightenment
philosophical movement lead by intellectuals who were greatly influenced by the achievements of the Scientific Revolution.
Principal Events:
-> The Enligthemment
-> Philosophes and Their Ideas
-> Charles-Louis de Secondant, the Baron of Montesquieu
-> Denis Diderot
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The Social World of the Enlightenment
The ideas of the Enlightenment were spread more easily as the eighteenth century saw the growth of publishing and of the reading public. More and more books were available to more and more people, including for the first time the middle classes and women. At the same time, magazines were developed for the general public and daily newspapers became more available. -
Charles-Louis de Secondant, the Baron of Montesquieu
published his most famous work , The Spirit of the Laws, in 1748. In this study of governments, he tried to use the scientific method to find the natural laws that govern the social and political relationships of human beings. -
Louis XVII accpted the constitutional Monarchy
Louis the XVII was forced to accept the constitutional monarchy so that the people were happy, apereantly. -
Denis Diderot
His most significant contribution to the Enlightenment was the Encyclopedia or Classified Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Trades, a 28-volume collection of knowledge that he edited. The Encyclopedia was supposed to ¨change the general way of thinking¨ according to Diderot. -
The Tennis Court Oath
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The Storming of the Bastille
The people of the 3rd estate attacked the Bastille wich was a symbol of the absolutism. They freed the prisoners and destroyed the Bastille. -
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The French Revolution
The monarchy that ruled France was eliminated in 3 years
Main Events:
-> 1789 Revolution begins with the Tennis Court Oath (June) and the storming of the Bastille (July)-> 1790: Louis XVI forced to accept that France became a constitutional monarchy-> 1792: France is declared a republic and the the monarchy is abolished-> 1793-1794- Reign of Terror lead by Robespierre-> 1795-1799- The Directory rules until Napoleon takes over -
France is declared a republic
France is declared a republic and the the monarchy is abolished, Louis and Mary are killed and everything goes to Robespier. -
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Reign of Terror lead by Robespierre
1793-1794- Reign of Terror lead by Robespierre. He reigins with a very strict format and murdered many people just because he wanted. -
Napoleon takes over
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Year 1800
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Year 800
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Year 900
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Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor
He was the ruler of the Franks. Charlemagne had gone to Rome to help put the affairs of the church in order when he was crowned -
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Reign of Charlemagne
Known as Charles the Great, or Charles the First, was King of the Franks from AD 768-814.
Territory: West Frankish Kingdom, Central Kingdom of Lothairg, Status of the Church and The East Frankish Kingdom of Louis the German
