140168957 | Prince Henry the Navigator | Founds navigation school on coast of portugal. | 0 | |
140168958 | Dias | Sails around southern tip of africa | 1 | |
140168959 | Vasco Da Gama | sails to India and returns to portugal with valuable cargo | 2 | |
140168960 | Christopher Columbus | sails for spain using ptolemy's map to go to india but ends up west and in the Americas. | 3 | |
140168961 | Hernan Cortez | marched to the aztec capital of tenochtitlan and defeated the great empire with only a few hundred soldiers | 4 | |
140168962 | Francisco Pizarro | attacked and defeated the Inca | 5 | |
140168963 | Ferdinand Magellan | found the southern tip of Southern America and sailed west across the pacific | 6 | |
140168964 | Juan Ponce De Leon | claims florida for spain in 1513 | 7 | |
140168965 | Philip II | rules spain and seizes portugal in 1580. defends catholicism against muslims and protestants. | 8 | |
140168966 | Henry of Navarre | ascends french throne and adopts catholicism; issues edict of Nantes: a declaration of religion toleration | 9 | |
140168967 | Cardinal Richelieu | minister of Louis XIII | 10 | |
140168968 | Louis XIV | the most powerful and longest reigning monarch in French history. also known as the sun king. | 11 | |
140168969 | Jean Baptiste Colbert | finance minister who helps economy grow. | 12 | |
140168970 | Henry VIII | the english king who seperated himself from the catholic church when the pope would not allow his annulment | 13 | |
140168971 | Charles V | grandson of ferdinand and isabella whom ruled the Holy Roman Empire for a time. | 14 | |
140168972 | Philip II | Charles V's son who became king of spain who defeated the ottoman empire and became his fathers successor. | 15 | |
140168973 | Elizabeth I | daughtor of king henry VIII and Anne Boelyn. Became queen of england and never married/ concieved. | 16 |
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