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130 BCE
Silk Routes emerged connecting trade between mediterranean basin and asia
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100 BCE
Paper was invented by the chinese
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1 BCE
Jesus began the Christian religion
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610
Mohammad founded the Islamic religion
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1300
The Ottoman Empire spread to Africa, the Middle East, and Southern Europe
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1350
The renaissance began in the intalian city-states and spread to northern europe
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1382
John Wycliffe argued the bible was the highest religious authority-not the pope
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1415
Jan Huss was burned at the stake for being a heretic
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1430
The Songhai Empire was established in africa
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1438
The hapsburg family was the most powerful family in europe
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1439
Johannes Gutenburg invented the printing press
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1478
The inquisition was used to reinforce catholic doctrine
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1493
Erasmus spread the idea of humanism
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1495
Leonardo da Vinci painted the last supper
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1498
Michaelanglo scuplted the Pieta
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1503
Leonardo da Vnci painted the Mona Lisa
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1512
MIchelangelo painted the celiling of the sistine chapel
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1517
Martin Lurther nailed the 95 theses to a church door
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1521
Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther
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1526
The Mughal Empire began in Northern India
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1531
Henry VII became the head of the anglican church
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1534
Henry VIII broke from the church in rome and divorced his wife
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1534
The Jesuits spread the catholic faith
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1536
John Calvin developed the idea of predestination
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1563
Catholic leaders met at the council of trent
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1577
Elizabeth I sponsered sir fracis drake's exploration to the new world
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Queen Elizabeth I defeated Philip's II spanish armada
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Henry IV issued the edict of nantes
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Cardinal Richelieu got france involved in the thirty years' war
