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A device that allowed the mass production of books and media. Invented by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany. -
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Occurred in 1453, the city was seized by the Ottoman empire and was the end of the Byzantine Empire. The city is known today as Istanbul. -
Powerful family that ruled England that started with Henry VII in 1485, and ended with Elizabeth I in 1603. -
An Italian named Christopher Columbus was employed by the Spanish monarchs to sail across the Atlantic to hopefully get to India. Instead he finds South America and the Natives. -
The army of Isabella I and Ferdinand II seized Granada, which ended the Muslim rule over the country. -
A decree made by the Spanish Monarchs, Isabella I and Ferdinand II that forced all Jews to either leave the country or convert to Roman Catholicism in three months or face death. -
Michelangelo completed the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel after four years of work -
Beginning of the Protestant Reformation, when Martin Luther began criticizing the church. -
Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the All-Saints Church in Germany, which was noted as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. -
An assembly called by the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire regarding Martin Luther's 95 Theses. -
A book written by Machiavelli, regarding civic humanism and politics. -
Declared that the king has ultimate power over the English church, removing England from the Roman Catholic Church. -
Was formed when Henry VIII split from the Roman Catholic Church. -
A book that argues that the sun rather than the earth is at the center of the universe and that the earth revolves around it. -
A council at the center of the Catholic Reformation, a movement in response to the Protestant Reformation. -
The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire allows the princes and lords to choose between Catholicism and Lutheranism for their states, officially recognizing "Cuis regio, eius religio," (whose realm, his religion). -
A targeted attack by a Catholic mob on Calvinists. -
The final event of the French religious wars between Henry III, the King of France, Henry of Naverre, the Protestant leader and supposed heir to the French throne, and Henry I, Duke of Guise, the head of an ultra-Catholic group. -
The English beat the Spanish through several naval attacks. -
They were rivals, which spanned from a rejected marriage proposal and escalated to violence. Their rivalry was partially religious, as the Spanish were devout Catholics while Elizabeth turned England Protestant. -
A decree by Henry VI that allowed Protestantism in the country, ending the religious wars in France.