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Period: Sep 15, 1274 to Sep 15, 1295
Marco Polo
at the age of seventeen he made a three year trip to the emperor Kublai Khan traveled throughout Asia and was recording everything for the emperor Go to full episode for more info -
Mar 4, 1418
Prince Henry
Founded the first school of navigation of the ocean here people were taught how to make a map and build ships -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus
set off his on an expedition that ended up fing the Americas -
Jul 8, 1497
Vasco da Gama
found a way to India by going around the Cape of Good Hope -
Feb 19, 1512
Nicolaus Compernicus
Had the the theory that the sun is the center of the solar system and proved how with math -
Period: Nov 10, 1517 to Apr 20, 1525
Martin Luther
born November 10, 1483 death February 18, 1546 protestant reformation of the Church -
Feb 18, 1519
Hernan Cortez
He conquered the aztec empire which is now mexico city and the surrounding area -
Aug 10, 1519
Magellan
Led the first expidition to ever circum navigate the earth sarted at spain -
Period: Mar 31, 1529 to Mar 31, 1549
Rene Descartes
published works of mathematics, science, and philosophy -
Jul 24, 1532
Francisco Pizarro
Led the conquest of peru and declineof Inca culture -
Dec 31, 1535
Jaques Cartier
Discovered the St. lawerance river -
Sep 27, 1540
Ignatius of Loyola
Founded of the Society of Jesus or Jesuit order -
Nov 20, 1541
John Calvin
He led the French Protestant Reformer Most important figure in the second generation of the Protestatreformation -
Period: Dec 14, 1572 to
Tycho Brahe (1548-1601)
Astronomer that published several books about his findings from 1572 to the last published work that was a year after his death in 1602 -
Jan 22, 1574
Francis Bacon
"The father of the scientific method" He investigated the natural presise and planned procedure this event ually became the sceintific standard -
Galileo Galilei
he made the first telescope -
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Johannes Kepler
He wrote the three laws of planetary motion in 1609-1619 -
Robert Boyle
titled Father of Modern Chemistry first scientist to preform controlled experiments and publish his findings First major scientific report was The Spring and Weight of the Air -
Sir Isaac Newton
Observed an apple fall 20years later was when the concept of Universal gravitation
