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Oct 16, 1300
Inquisition
An inquisitor is someone who asks you questions to decide on your punishment, you go to the inquisition because you are accused of heresy. Now we have something called a court. You don’t go to court because you are accused of heresy; you go to court if you break the law. I agree with the court rather than the inquisition because it is fair to have different beliefs. During the renaissance when you went to the inquisition they either made you wear a cross, go to jail or you were burned to death. -
Oct 16, 1300
Clocks
Early 1300 the first clock was made. The first clock was measured out in 24 hours. During 1581 Galileo discovered the pendulum and the way it worked.
Clocks are so useful to us now, especially for communication and collaboration. Maybe during the Renaissance time some couldn’t tell the time, they could only tell if it was night or morning. So if someone wanted to meet up they would say, “Meet me during the day. “ One of them could be waiting around for ages for the other so it was very convenie -
Oct 16, 1348
The Black Death
The Black Death was placed in the year of 1347; it was both an advantage and a disadvantage.
For the serfs who were at the bottom of the feudalism the Black Death was a big advantage because after the Black Death was over it didn’t really matter about the feudalism anymore. Lucky for us if the Black Death did not occurred then one of us might have been a serf with many disadvantages but someone else might have been a King with a lot of advantages. It just wouldn’t of have been fair.
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Oct 17, 1450
Renaissance Music
Many changes started taking place during the Renaissance. Music of the Renaissance tended to be when instruments were just used for accompaniment. During the Renaissance period, instrumental music became popular and vocal music became more polyphonic. Some students learned that writing music was just coming into being in the eleventh century, and you if you wanted to compose music you really had to know the piece before any of the notes made sense. Madrigals were very popular during the Renaissa -
Oct 17, 1468
Weighing Scale
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519), he produced two designs. One with a triangular chart, and the other semi-circular, but both worked similarly. The object which was to be weighed would have been placed in a pan. The chart acts as a the pendulum of a clock and finds a new position so It could balance. The weight is shown on the chart by a plum bob crossing its face.
A weighing scale changed us in every matter of measuring mass. Nearly every day we want/need to measure the weight of something, our -
Oct 17, 1485
First Parachutes
Other inventors designed parachutes, including Croatian Faust Vrancic who constructed the parachute based on Da Vinci's drawing. Faust Vrancic jumped off a Venice tower in 1617 wearing a rigid-framed parachute. Faust Vrancic published Machinae Novae, he describes in text and picture fifty-six advanced technical constructions.
The parachute is very useful when we are in the air and are troubling to get down. For e.g. if we were having a tour on a small plane and the engine runs out, we -
Oct 17, 1491
King Henry the VIII
King Henry the VIII was born on 1491 and died in 1547. He was known for having six wives and being a fat geezer. He got married and then moved on, he moved on from all but his last wife because they didn’t give him a baby boy. But the reason he is still know today is because he starting a different type of church, a Catholic Church. Because the church didn’t allow him to have a divorce with his wife he started a different church which allowed you to get divorced.
This also caused quite a probl -
Oct 31, 1495
Christopher Columbus
During 1484-1504, Christopher Columbus found America for the people in Europe. Thanks to Christopher Columbus we now know that America exists, it was called The New World. I think he wanted to travel the world and figure out if the world was really flat. Back then they said if you fell off the map you would end up in space.
When he reached he could also trade new supplies with America. When Christopher Columbus discovered America for the European people he had also found different fruits, food -
Oct 17, 1497
The Last Supper
The last supper was a painting by Leonardo da Vinci in 1497.Even before it was finished there were problems with the paint flaking from the wall and Leonardo had to repair it. Over the years it has crumbled, been vandalized bombed and restored.
This painting had a lot of talks on it. Everybody had a different perspective on what was going on because the painting wasn’t quite clear to them. Some say the person on our left was Jesus some say it wasn’t. A lot of people talked about that often beca -
Oct 17, 1503
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa is a portrait by an Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting made by oil paints, well out of the mixtures that they were provided with.
The Mona Lisa really changed the way people drew perspectives. Because the eyes of the Mona Lisa kept following you where ever you went, other artists started drawing and painting more realistically so it looked more 3D.
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Oct 17, 1513
Nicolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli was a so called, “Renaissance Man”. A Renaissance man is someone who was capable of doing many things, just like Leonardo da Vinci. The Medici family always questioned Nicolo. They didn’t like the fact that he was a threat to their power and because the Medici family had power they put him in prison. After they read his book, “The Prince” they let him out but he was nearly made a serf. Nicolo Machiavelli was a very luck man, he was wealthy or poor. He got to meet some of the other l -
Oct 17, 1564
Galileo Galilei
During 1609 Galileo Galilee proved that the earth isn’t in the middle of the universe and that the sun was. He proved this by using a telescope to see further into the universe. He read a book and it told him that this certain glass could be used to see further so he used around 3 pieces of glass to see further. That is how Galileo proved he was telling the truth and he also invented something called a Telescope. This has made a great impact on us because now we can learn the truth about the ear -
Oct 17, 1580
Tokogawa Ieyasu
Tokogawa Ieyasu was born on January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616. He was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan. He ruled from the 1600 until the 1868. Tokugawa seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603 but remained in power until his death in 1616.
He was the last and the longest shogun before the democracy came. The king of Thailand is the longest King ever and so was Tokogawa but a leader of shogun. That is why he is still remembered today. He was the l -
Flush Toilet
In the year 1596 Sir John Harrington made the first flush toilet for himself and his godmother. Around 200 years later Alexander Cummings improved the flush toilet. Finally a year after Joseph Braham improved the flush toilet once again.
A flush toilet is very useful and private these days. Back then you had to use a public toilet which wasn’t even a flushing toilet. They would always have to walk out of there house just to go to the bathroom. Now toilets have been functioned to be -
William Shakespeares Writing
William Shakespeare is known for his great plays such as the series of Shakespeare and writing 154 sonnets. He wrote a series of plays but “Romeo and Juliet” was probably the most famous one. He was very lucky as a writer to go perform in front of the kings and queens.
He is still known today because he had a great influence on culture throughout the world. Shakespeare influenced literature and is looked up to for his great work. Some of his stories/sonnets have been modified in to movies! He wa
