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27
Jesus was the founder of the Christian religion
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139
Silk Routes emerged connecting trade between the Mediterranean Basin and Asia
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220
Paper was invented by the chinese
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613
Mohammed founded the Islamic religion
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800
The Songhai Empire was established in Africa
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1300
The Ottoman Empire spread to Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe
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1377
John Wycliffe argued the Bible was the highest religous authority-not the pope
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1400
The Renaissance began in the Italian city-states and spread to Northern Europe.
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1415
Jan Huss was burned at the stake for being a heretic
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1440
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
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1492
Christopher Columbus reached the America's
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1498
Leonardo DeVinci painted the Last Supper
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1498
Vaso da Gama sailed around the southern tip of Africa en route to India
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1499
Michelangelo sculpted the Pieta
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1503
Leonardo da Vinci painted to Mona Lisa
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1504
Michelangelo sculpted the statue of David
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1509
Erasmus spread the idea of "humanism"
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1512
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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1517
Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to a church door
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1521
Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther
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1521
Hernan Cortez defeated the Aztecs
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1522
Ferdinand Magellan's crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe
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1526
The Mughal Empire began in Northern India
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1533
Henry V111 broke from the church in Rome and divorced his wife
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1533
Francisco Pizarro defeated the Incas
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1534
The Jesuit Order spread the Catholic Faith
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1534
Jacques Cartier sailed the St, Lawrence River and discovered Montreal
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1535
The Hapsburg family was the most powerful family in Europe
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1536
Henry V111 became the head of the Anglican Church
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1539
John Calvin developed the idea of predestination
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1560
The inquisition was used to reinforce Catholic doctrine
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1563
Catholic Leaders met at the Council of Trent
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1577
Elizabeth 1 sponsored Sir Francis Drake's exploration to the New World
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1580
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe
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Queen Elizabeth 1 defeated Philip 11's Spanish Armada
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Henry 1V issues the Edict of Nantes
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Cardinal Richelieu got France involved in the Thirty Years War
