LESSON 2.1 Overview
INQUIRY QUESTION How did societies change in the Early Modern Period? What key beliefs and values influenced them? What were people’s perspectives? Which significant ideas have influenced the world today and how have historians interpreted the period? The period between 1500 and 1650 shaped the modern world in Europe. Revolutionary ideas and the invention of the printing press challenged old ways of thinking. The movement of people, through exploration and trade, fostered cultural exchanges that continue to resonate today.
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1492 Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas in a sailing ship. Leonardo da Vinci designs a flying machine.
1519–22 A Spanish expedition commanded by Magellan and Elcano is the first to circumnavigate the world.
1445 Johannes Gutenberg produces the first European book on a printing press using moveable type.
1534 Jacques
1553 Michael Servetus is burnt at the stake by order of the Protestant governing council of Geneva, Switzerland.
1531–32 The Church of England breaks away
Cartier makes his first voyage to North America for France.
from the Roman Catholic Church.
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1473 The Spanish Inquisition is established.
1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India by sea.
1517 Martin Luther begins the Protestant Reformation.
1536 The Inquisition is established in Portugal.
1543 Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium , the first book showing that the Earth is not the centre of the universe.
1524–25 The German Peasants’ War.
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