Monday, May 20, 2019

Renaissance and Reformation

1300- Renaissance begins in Italian city-states- Florence, Milan, and Mantua
1324- Mali king Mansa Musa makes a pilgrimage to Mecca
1368- Hongwu founds Ming Dynasty in China
1405- Chinese explorer Zheng begins exploration of Asia and Africa
1434- Medici family takes control of Florence
1453- Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople
1455- Gutenburg Bible printed in Mainz
1492- Columbus reaches the Americas
1517- Martin Luther begins Reformation in Wittenberg
1526- Babur establishes Mughal empire in India
1534- English King Henry VII starts the Church of England
1563- Council of Trent mandates reforms in Catholic Church

Renaissance- period of "rebirth"
- Started because of trade with Eat and rediscovery of ancient manuscripts
- Martin Luther started the reformation
- Reformed practices in Catholic Churches
- Invention of printing press made books quickly and cheap
- New technology helped spread revolutionary ideas

- Italy-  birth place of Renaissance
- Rebirth of learning
- Produced many great works of art/literature
- Art and literature still influence modern art and literature





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