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Jan 1, 1265
Marco Polo
Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle over the Silk Road which was an overland route to China. He worked for Kublai Khan, the Mongol Emperor, for seventeen years. He sailed home instead of going overland. He brought back ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain and silk. He told about the Chinese use of coal, money and compasses.Marco Polo became famous for his travels through Central Asia and China. -
Jan 1, 1445
Prince Herey
he found a sea route to Africa and he and his crew was the first europeans to reach India sea he also established settlements in Brazil in south America also established trading posts in important coastal areas of Africa and Asia -
Jan 1, 1491
Ignatius of Loyola
St Ignatius' most lasting achievement is founding the Society of Jesus and becoming its first Superior General.The the Superior General he sent his companions as missionaries around Europe to create schools, colleges, and seminaries. -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Columbus was the first to discover the new world and discover an island and named in san Salvador. He also founded a city called Isabella. He started a large trend of European Exploration
His voyages led to European awareness of the American continents and, more importantly, to the eventual spread of Western culture across much of the discovered area, especially North America. -
Jan 1, 1502
Hernan Cortes
Hernando Cortes "discovered" Tenochtitlan , which was the capital of the Aztec empire. Also he followed the foot steps of Columbus from Spain to Mexico and the Carribean islands. And he conquered the Aztecs. He became mayor of Santiago de Cuba. From the emperor of the Aztecs he got jewels and gold. He then invaded Cuba and returned back to Spain. -
Jan 1, 1509
Francisco Pizarro
Conquered Incas in South America
Pizarro joined the sail to the city of San Sebastian with Alonzo de Ojeda the founder of the conquered city. This was the beginning of his journey to becoming another great but more successful conqueror and founder. -
Sep 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world. He died half way through the journey in battle.
He was the first person to sail completely around the World.
He was first to sail around the Cape Horn.
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Jan 1, 1524
Vasco de Gama
Vasco Da Gama Found a route from Portugal east to India by going around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa. He set up trade in India and eventually became the Portuguese Viceroy in India. -
Jan 1, 1534
Martin Luther
Martin Luther translated the Bible from Latin into the German language and for the first time common people are able to read what it says in the Bible. he was from Eisleben, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire -
Jan 1, 1536
John Calvin
He was born in Noyon, Picardy. he published the first edition of his seminal work Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.
Calvin introduced new forms of church government and liturgy, despite the opposition of several powerful families in the city who tried to curb his authority. -
Jan 1, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a real astronomer who was able to figure out that the earth, as well as all the planets, revolved around the sun. Bcause he knew his findings would be rejected, and he might face exicution, he did not publish his book On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies until 1543, the year he died. -
Jan 1, 1574
Tycho Brahe
He Made the most accurate measurements of planetary positions available at that time and for a long time thereafter. Brahe data was used by Kepler to develop his laws.
he also Observed and measured the distance to a Supernova, thereby proving that the firmament was not a god-given stable sphere, but a dynamic system. -
Johannes kepler
He was the founder of "celestial mechanics", having been the first to explain planetary motion. Kepler also made his own laws. , his publication Stereometrica Doliorum formed the basis of integral calculus, and he also made important advances in geometry. -
Galileo Galilei
he was under house arrest for the rest of his life due to his support of Copernicus's theory of a sun centered solar system.He discovered with the telescopehe built: the moon has mountains and valleys, the sun has spots, that moons orbit Jupiter -
Francis Bacon
francis bacon studied literature and wrote many books on the subjects of science and philosophy. he was an astronomer -
Rene Descartes
He was a one of the greatest philosophers of the Renaissance period. He was an outstanding math mathematician, and inventing analytic geometry and attempting to devise the simple universal laws that governed all physical change. -
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer.The Newton's Laws of Motion became the founding principle of mechanics and enlightened the masses about the relationships between force and motion.He discovered gravitational force and established the three Universal Laws of Motion.
