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Columbus sails across the ocean and thought he landed on India, but it was actually modern day North America.
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Vasco da Gama land in Africa after finding a new sea route to India
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The era of all things art
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The age of Exploration involves many, many explorers sailing out to sea and finding new land.
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Artist sculpts a prolific figure in perfect human form.
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da Vinci creates a picture of a woman using new painting styles
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A book Desiderius Erasmus wrote criticizing the Catholic Church.
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Magellan sails out to sea and sails all the way around the Earth.
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A religious movement, many new churches, many different beliefs.
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A document written to write everything that is wrong with indulgences, he also wrote about the authority of the pope.
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Hernan Cortez and his cohorts take over the Aztec Capital.
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Francisco Pizzaro and his crew defeat the Incan Empire
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King Henry makes own church in England and declares himself the leader of it.
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Ignatius creates a religious party called the Jesuits, created to spread the catholic religion.
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Jacques Cartier, and explorer for France, claims parts of Canadian territory for France.
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Nicolaus Copernicus discovers the model of how the sun is the center of the solar system rather than the Earth.
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The era of Scientific discoveries
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The era of Absolute Monarchies
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A peace written to rid of the rising conflict from the Reformation
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Queen Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, becomes the queen of England.
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Huguenots were violently attacked during the civil war during the Reformation.
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Francis Drake and the British crew he leads are set out by Elizabeth I to defeat the Spanish Armada
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A playwright by the name of Shakespeare writes the play Henry VIII.
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Miguel de Cervantes publishes Don Quixote, the first novel ever.
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Galileo Galilei creates and circulates his account of the ocean tides.
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The war regarding religious conflict, ended the reformation.
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William Harvey describes perfectly, the process of circulation
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A conflict between the two branches in Britain, The Parliament, and the Monarch Charles I.
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Louis XIV becomes the king of France, it will be the longest term in history.
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Charles I, the king of Britain was against the institution of the Parliament in Britain. He was executed because he became a threat to Britain.
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Cromwell defeats Charles II in the battle of Worcester, ending the English Civil War, and Cromwell becomes dictator.
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Hobbes writes Leviathan concerning that people were wicked. If people were left to themselves, their evil spirits would run wild.
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Cromwell serves as the Lord Protector of the British Parliament.
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Isaac Newton formulates and creates the laws of gravity
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Peter drags Russia out of Medieval Times.
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The time period when James II's throne was taken over by William and Mary.
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William and Mary take over the throne of James II to become the leader of the UK.
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A philosophical movement, it was also had a huge impact on both the French and American revolutions.
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Eugene paints Liberty to Leading People which is one of the most popular paintings of all time.
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Baron de Montesquieu publishes the Spirit of Laws concerning separation of power, as well as how the power would be separated.
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The last battle before the French Revolution between all of Europes major powers
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Voltaire publishes his book simultaneously in five different countries.
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Rousseau writes the Social Contract which was a contract between the rulers and the people. It stated that liberty was everyone's birthright.
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Frederick the Great wins the War with the Prussians.
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French people stormed the Bastille, a very large prison. Which started the French Revolution.
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Was a Revolution of political and social upheaval in France.
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John Locke writes the Two Treatises on Government concerning how people were sovereign, and peoples right to Life, Liberty, and Property.
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Louis XVI tries to escape all the problems he sees are coming.
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Robespierre starts the Reign of Terror by executing Louis XVI. He then kills anyone who disobeys the government.
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The Reign of Terror ends with the execution of of Robespierre.
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With the new reign of Napoleon the French Revolution comes to an end
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Bonaparte, one of the best militaristic leaders in history is defeated at the battle of Waterloo. This ended the reign of Napoleon as the emperor of France and he was exiled until his death.
