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100 BCE
Paper was invented by the chinese
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14 BCE
Silk routes emerged connecting trade between the Mediterranean basin and Asia
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30
Jesus was the founder of the Christian Religion
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600
Muhammad found the Islamic religion
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1291
The Habsburg family was the most powerful family in Europe
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1378
John Wycliffe argued the Bible was the highest religious authority- not the pope
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Jul 6, 1415
Jan Huss was burned at the stake for being a heretic
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1439
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
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1495
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last supper
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1499
Michelangelo sculpted the Pieta
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1500
Erasmus spreads the idea of Humanism
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1503
Leonardo da vinci painted the mona lisa
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1504
Michelangelo sculpted the statue of David
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1508
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the SIstine chaple
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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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1533
Henry VIII broke from the Church in Rome and divorced his wife
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1534
THe Jesuits were spread the catholic faith
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1536
Henry VIII became the head of the Anglican church
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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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1566
The Ottoman Empire spread to Africa, the middle east and southern Europe
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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 Philip II's Spanish Aramada
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henry IV issued the Edict of NAntes
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The renaissance began in the Italian city-states and spread to Northern Europe
1300-1600 -
The Songhai empire was established in Africa
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Cardinal Richelieu got France involved in the thirty years war
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The Inquisition was used to reinforce Catholic Doctrine
From beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds of years until he last death by inquisition in 1826
