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better known as Henry the Navigator, was an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and the Age of Discoveries in total. He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and maritime trade with other continents.
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and declaring his new era the Yongle or the time of "Perpetual Happiness"
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to show off China's might across the world
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a famous statue
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divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain .The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Spain.
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made printing a some of the same pages quicker
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it is a famous battle
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The capture of Constantinople (and two other Byzantine splinter territories soon thereafter) marked the end of the Roman Empire
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He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.
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The aftermath of the war saw the end of convivencia ("live and let live") between religions. The Jews were forced to convert to Christianity or be exiled in 1492. In 1501,
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Columbus' voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for several centuries
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an old time school
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spains empire and european absolutiism
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a rill famous painting in a musem
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ut instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians. Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed "America", deriving its name from the feminized Latin version of Vespucci's first name.[1][2
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michelangelo starts the sistine capel
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captured Atahualpa and used him to control the Inca Empire. Eventually, the Spanish executed Atahualpa, effectively ending the empire
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a fifteen fiffteen book
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mary come to queen
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martin luther post 95 thesis
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who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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slaves revolts
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first European to reach India by sea. This discovery was very significant and paved the way for the Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia.
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Cartier's three expeditions along the St. Lawrence River would later enable France to lay claim to the lands that would become Canada.
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anne died
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edward is born
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ignatius of loyola founds the jesuit order
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the enlightenment and revolution
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he was King of Naples and Sicily as well as Duke of Milan. During his marriage to Queen Mary I (1554–58), he was also King of England and Ireland
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elizabeth is queen
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willams motive for fighting the spanish whas plitical not religis he whanted to free the neatherlands from spain
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king philip launched the spanish a armada
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Grande y Felicísima Armada or Armada Invencible, literally "Great and Most Fortunate Navy" or "Invincible Fleet") was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña
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Commonly associated with trade in basic commodities, which included cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium, the Company received a Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth in 1600,[3] making it the oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies
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they demonstrated math ematically that the planets revolve around the sun
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It is often considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world [2] and it was the first company to issue stock.[3] It was also arguably the first megacorporation, possessing quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts,[4] negotiate treaties, coin money, and establish colonies.[5]
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In or near the Hudson Bay, Canada
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william shakespeafre dies
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was a series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe.[10] It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history, and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history.
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He was a typical fighting gentleman of the period.
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Some scholars argue that the Leviathan is the 'greatest work of political philosophy ever written'. This may sound as an exaggeration but it certainly represents the most powerful study of modern politics written in English. By all means it is the most famous work of Thomas Hobbes, but no less his most misunderstood work
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Once reaching the river they took to their canoes and traveled westward and then down the Mississippi.
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he restored the monarchy charles also restored theater sporting events and dancing
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Ironically, the English explorer HENRY HUDSON brought the region to the attention of the Netherlands in 1609 by sailing into New York Bay
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this law gave every prisoner the right to obtain a writ or document ordering that the prisoner be bought befor a judge
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the principia was rvolutionizing because it provied and ezact quantitative
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The work of Thomas Hobbes made theories based upon a state of nature popular in 17th-century England, even as most of those who employed such arguments were deeply troubled by his absolutist conclusions. Locke's state of nature can be seen in light of this tradition. Because there is no divinely ordained monarch over all the world, as was argued in the First Treatise, the natural state of mankind is anarchic.
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The goal of this mission was to strengthen and broaden the Holy League, Russia's alliance with a number of European countries against the Ottoman Empire in its struggle for the northern coastline of the Black Sea, hire foreign specialists for Russian service, and to order and acquire military supplies and weapons. Officially, the Grand Embassy was headed by the "grand ambassadors" Franz Lefort, Fedor Golovin and Prokopy Voznitsyn. In fact, it was led by Peter himself, who went along incognito un
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the treaty of utrecht was signed in that year
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fter a week of slow agony, Louis XIV passed away in Versailles on 1 September 1715 at 8.15 in the morning, just before his 77th birthday. A reign of 72 years ended, the longest in the history of France. Another reign almost as long began: that of Louis XV
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Frederick found an ally in his sister, Wilhelmina, with whom he remained close for life. At age 16, Frederick had formed an attachment to the king's 13-year-old page, Peter Karl Christoph Keith.
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In his youth, Frederick was more interested in music and philosophy than the art of war. He defied his authoritarian father, Frederick William I, and sought to run away with his close friend Hans Hermann von Katte. They were caught and the king nearly executed his son for "desertion"; he did force Frederick to watch the execution of Hans.
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In his paper Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer, he recounted his experiments showing that the melting point of ice is essentially unaffected by pressure. He also determined with remarkable precision how the boiling point of water varied as a function of atmospheric pressure. He proposed that the zero point of his temperature scale, being the boiling point, would be calibrated at the mean barometric pressure at mean sea level.
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This work was unorthodox and advanced for the time. Diderot stated that "An encyclopedia ought to make good the failure to execute such a project hitherto, and should encompass not only the fields already covered by the academies, but each and every branch of human knowledge.
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It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines
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However, in 1757, British Prime Minister William Pitt (the older) recognized the potential of imperial expansion that would come out of victory against the French and borrowed heavily to fund an expanded war effort.
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Brought up by an abusive father, she left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing. While working as a translator to Joseph Johnson, a publisher of radical texts, she published her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She died 10 days after her second daughter, Mary, was born.
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He became heir to the throne when his father died in 1751, succeeding his grandfather George II in 1760.
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, military conscription and economy continued to depend on serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and private landowners led to increased levels of reliance on serfs. This was one of the chief reasons behind several rebellions, including the large-scale Pugachev's Rebellion of cossacks and peasants.
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In it, Beccaria put forth some of the first modern arguments against the death penalty.
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They tipped the 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. Because of this, Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which were so harsh that they were renamed the Intolerable Acts.
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the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee's motion for independence.
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Later, in 1789, he decreed that peasants must be paid in cash payments rather than labor obligations. These policies were violently rejected by both the nobility and the peasants, since their barter economy lacked money.
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In all, 55 delegates attended the Constitutional Convention sessions, but only 39 actually signed the Constitution. The delegates ranged in age from Jonathan Dayton, aged 26, to Benjamin Franklin, aged 81, who was so infirm that he had to be carried to sessions in a sedan chair.
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Historic sources present disparate accounts of Ivan's complex personality: he was described as intelligent and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental illness
