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The Renaissance was an artistic movement that started in Italy and spread to northern Europe.
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During this time period, many European countries conquered and colonized a lot of different countries.
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Started sponsoring voyages and helped kick off European exploration
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Invented the movable printing press which helped get the Renaissance started.
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Left Spain to go discover the "New World"
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Made his first trip to India and found a water route there
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Created the Mona Lisa
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Finished creating the statue of King David
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Wrote “The Praise of Folly”
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Finished painting the Sistine Chapel
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The Reformation was a political, cultural, intellectual, but mostly a religious movement throughout Europe that changed Christianity to make it the way it is now.
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Put his 95 theses, against things the Catholic church was doing, on the church door.
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Invaded Mexico and seized the Aztec's ruler along with their belongings.
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Left his country to go circumnavigate the world
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Trapped the Inca's emperor and discovered what would now be the country of Peru
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Established the Church of England and declared himself the head of it.
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Discovered what would now be Quebec, Canada
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Established the Society of Jesus
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Wrote "Institutes of the Christian Religion" which influenced the Switzerland Reformation.
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Discover and developed the heliocentric theory and published it in his book.
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A time period where mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry changed how people viewed societies and nature.
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A time period in European history where monarchs successfully gathered the wealth and power of the state to themselves and were not really influenced by the people.
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Became the Queen of England
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Left England to become the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe
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Wrote "Romeo and Juliet"
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Wrote "Hamlet"
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Published "Don Quixote" which was the first book of its kind
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Developed laws of planetary motion and published his first two
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Wrote a letter about discovering three of Jupiter's moons, becoming the first person to realize Jupiter had moons.
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Studied the vascular system and announced his discovery of the circulation of blood within the body
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This war took place during the Reformation; it was fought between the Catholics and Protestants of many different national armies.
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Published his third law of planetary motion
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This was a conflict between parliament (led by Oliver Cromwell) and Charles I that ended with the execution of Charles I.
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Was executed because he lost the English Civil War and parliament did not want a monarchy anymore
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Wrote "Leviathan" which explained his political philosophy, such as how he thought the best type of government was an absolute monarchy
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Became England's Lord Protector (which means he was England's leader that was not a monarch) after Charles I was killed
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After being exiled, he became king and restored the monarchy: starting what is known as the Restoration period
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Developed/Invented the laws of gravity
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Moved the royal court to his expensive palace of Versailles
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This was a time period where European politics, science, philosophy, and communications were majorly altered.
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This event was the overthrowing of King James II, which allowed William and Mary to become the rulers of England.
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became joint monarchs which led to an event known as the "Glorious Revolution"
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Wrote Two Treatises of Government which strongly influenced the American founding fathers
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Became czar of Russia and helped improve the military and country by westernizing them
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Wrote "The Spirit of Laws" which majorly contributed to political theory
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Was and Enlightenment thinker who wrote "Candide" which caused a lot of controversy
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Helped conduct the first partition of Poland and made Prussia stronger by gaining them land
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A period of time in France filled with social and political upheaval in France.
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Revolutionaries decided to storm the Bastille, which was a prison in France that held a lot of political prisoners, starting the French Revolution.
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Was the King of France at the start of the French Revolution, until he was executed, starting The Reign of Terror
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A time period during the French Revolution where Robespierre executed anyone who he considered an enemy of France, it ended with his execution.
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Was exiled from France for the second time after being their powerful, and mostly successful military leader for many years
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This was Napoleon Bonaparte's final battle, during which he was defeated.
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Painted "Liberty Leading the People" which commemorated the July Revolution of that year
