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Period: 1095 to 1291
The Crusades
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1096
Four armies of crusaders were formed from troops of different Western European reigons
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1097
The Crusaders and their Byzantine allies attacked Nicea
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1144
The governor of Mosul captured Edessa leading to the loss of the northernmost Crusader state
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1147
The second crusade began and it was lead by two powerful people King Louis VII and King Conrad III
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Period: 1347 to 1353
The Black Death
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1348
A different plague strains enters Europe through Genoa
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1348
The plague enters England through the port of Melcombe Regis
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1349
An English ship brings the black death to Norway when it runs aground in Bergen
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1351
The spread of the Black death slows down possibly because of Quarantine
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Period: 1400 to 1495
Early Renaissance
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Period: 1434 to
Age of Exploration
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1492
Christopher Columbus lands in the Caribbean
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Period: 1496 to 1527
High Renaissance
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1497
John Cabot lands on the east coast of North America
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1517
Martin Luther published a document he called Disputation on the power of Indulgences which are known as the 95 theses
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Period: 1517 to 1555
Protestant Reformation
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1519
Hernan Cortes lands in Mexico
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Period: 1527 to
Late Renaissance
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1535
The protestant Reformation began in England because of Henry VIII the reason was because the pope wouldn't grant him a marriage annulment.
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1543
Copernicus sets out his heliocentric theory
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Period: 1550 to
Scientific Revolution
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Giordano Bruno publishes a centerpiece that states that the Earth is not the center of the universe
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Francois Viete's invention is essential to the studies of physics and astronomy
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Some separatists tried to start new lives they imagined in Holland but failed due to poverty