The Modern World

Black Death hits Europe

1347

The black death was a pandemic disease that killed off 70-200 million people in Europe. It is significant because it destroyed Feudalism and created a middle class. It also made people look and believe in the church in a different way because they were not able to tell them why everyone was dying.

Printing Press

1440

The printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg was the first mechanical device that cut down book making by ½ the time. This was very significant because books were made much quicker and sold all over the world spreading religion and practices.

Copernicus

1473

Nicolaus Copernicus was a polish astronomer that put forth the idea that the sun was the center of the universe and all of the planet revolve around the sun. Her was said that the earth spins on its axis once a day giving us day and night. He called this theory the Heliocentric meaning sun centered system.

The Last Supper

1495

The last supper is painted by Leonardo da Vinci, it shows the celebration of Eucharist which is a Christian ceremony respecting the Last Supper. This painting is idly popular and very fragile, Leonardo da Vinci was trying to show the physiology by using emotions, gestures, and posture.

Mona Lisa

1503

The Mona lisa is a oil on painting painted by Raphael, it shows a half body portrait of a woman with a landscape of nature in the background. This painting set a high standard for even other portrait made after it., Raphael used shadowing and use of colors that made it look like she is staring at you from every angle you look at it

Luthers 95 Thesis

1517

Luthers 95 thesis attacking the church and how they were running europe were pinned to the front of the church. These were significant because started a revolution of people standing up to powerful leaders. Luther took on the church and the pope by himself just to get his work out to the world. People today are still breaking unjust laws like luther did.

Magellan discovered the strait of magellan

1520

Magellan set sail in 1519 in search of the strait that is now named after himself. It is located in the southern area of South America and cuts through chile. By the end of his journey Magellan had only 3 of the 5 ships he started with but this was a huge discovery for geologist. It is now used as a central route to get from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific much quicker than going around south america.

Shakespeare builds the Globe theatre

1599

The Globe theatre was were shakespeare performed all of his plays after 1599. Years after the opening of the globe it was burned to the ground and demolished by the persians. But shakespeare continued to write plays and rebuilt the theatre at its original location. This theatre shows true accomplishment for playwrights in the late 1500’s.

Galileo's Telescope

1609

Galileo's telescope was his evidence that his theory was correct, through trial and error he made this device what made thing far away look close up. This is time significant in science because it was very advanced instrument and lead to him discovering the moons that orbit around jupiter, moon phases, and stars all around the solar system.

Newton

1643

Sir Isaac Newton is one of the main contributions to the scientific revolution. He went to collage in Cambridge and studied philosophy. In 1688 he invented the first telescope. He started that light was composed of particles, not waves. He later developed the three modern laws on motion and discovered calculus