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The creation of the printing press made printing faster which allowed information to spread faster -
The Ottoman Empire took over Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire -
How long the Tudor Dynasty was in power for
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The expulsion of all practicing Jews from Spain -
Columbus meant to go to India but instead ended up in the Americas -
The capture of Granada by King Ferdinand II -
Michelangelo is a famous artist this was the year he finished his painting the Sistine Chapel -
Martin Luther was a monk that changed the way the church was run and wrote his 95 Theses which is a list of reasons Martin Luther thought the church needed to change which also launched the Protestant Reformation -
Luther attended the Diet of Worms which was an assembly of Holy Roman officials -
The Prince was a book about which was telling leaders to do anything to keep their power -
The Act of Supremacy was declared King Henry VIII the "Supreme Head" of the Church of England which cut ties with the pope
Henry VIII - married six wives, made the church of England so he could get a divorce, was king from 1508-1547 -
Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and his book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres which was about how the sun is the center of the universe and planets including the earth simple circle it -
The Council of Trent was a council of the Roman Catholic Church held throughout 1545 to 1563, part of the Counter-Reformation
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The Peace of Augsburg allowed princes to choose their subject's religion, "Cuius regio, eius religio" his realm his religion -
St. Bartholomew's Massacre was Catholic violence directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion -
The War of the Three Henrys was fought by King Henry III, Henry of Navarre, the Huguenot leader, and Henry I, Duke of Guise the leader of the Catholic League
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The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588 and was defeated by Elizabeth I of England while she was in conflict with Philip II of Spain -
The Edict of Nantes was a decree issued in 1598 by King Henry IV of France that granted French Protestants, or Huguenots, significant rights and religious freedoms in a predominantly Catholic nation