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207 BCE
Silk routes emerged connecting trade between the mediterranean Basin and Asia
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100 BCE
Paper was invented by the chinese
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10 BCE
Jesus began the Christian Religion
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570
Mohammad founded the Islamic religion
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1300
The Renaissance began in the italian city-states and spread to Northen Euope
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1382
John wycliffe argued the bible was the was the highest religious authority -not pope
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Jul 6, 1415
John Huss was burned at the stake for being heroic
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1438
The Hapsburg family was the most powerful family in europe
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1450
Johannes Gutenberg inverted the printing press
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1451
The ottoman Empire spread to africa the middle east and southern europe
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1468
The Songhai Empire was established in Africa
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1478
The inquisition was used to reinforce catholic doctine
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1492
Erasmus spread the idea of "humanism"
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1495
Leonardo da vinci painted the last supper
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1498
Michelanglo sculpted the pieta
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1503
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa
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1508
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel
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1512
Leonardo da Vinci painted the ceiling of sistine chapel
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin luther nailed 95 theses to a church door
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Jan 3, 1521
Pope Leo x excommunicated Martin Luther
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1526
The Mughal Empire began in Northern India
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1534
Henry VII broke from the church in rome and divorced his wife
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1534
Catholic Leaders met at the Council of Trent
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1534
Henry VII became the head of the Anglican church
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1543
The Jesuits were spread the hat cahtolic faith
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1559
John Calvin developed the idea of predestination
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1577
Elizabeth I sponsored Sir Francis Drake's exploration to the New World
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Queen Elizabeth I defeated Phillip II's Spanish Armada
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Henry IV issued the Edict of Names
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Cardinal Richelieu got France involved in the Thirty Years' war
