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__GROUP MEMBERS:__ Cassidy Greenzeig Ally Meyerowitz Justin Van DenHeuvel Jyll Yu

__TOPICS:__
 * Scientific** **Revolut****ion:** (Cassidy)



Martin Luther wrote the 95 theses. This was a list of complaints against the church. He posted this list to the door of the church and then got excommunicated. But before that he made copies of the theses by using the printing press. Isaac Newton created gravity. Ptolemy thought that the world was geocentric. That meant that the world was in middle and the sun and planets went revolved around it. Copernicus on the other hand thought that the world was heliocentric. That meant that the sun was in the middle and the earth and all of the planets revolved around it.

The age of exploration was an era of time when explorers were in search of spices such as pepper, and riches such as gold. There were many motivations for searching the new world such as gold, glory, and god. Pope Alexander created the line of demarcation, which gave Spain the America’s, and would soon be explored by Columbus. The first Europeans to ever visit the America’s were the Vikings. A Viking named Erik the Red creates a colony in Greenland. There was a new labor system in the America’s called the encomienda.
 * Age of Exploration:** (Ally)
 * Portugal:** (Justin)

Christopher Columbus was given 3 ships for his journey to sail for India from Spain’s king and queen, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. He went on his journey in 1492. Instead of arriving at India, he arrived in the Bahamas and thought the people there were Indians, since he thought he was in India. The ‘Indians’ were nice to them, but Columbus and his men treated them the opposite. He treated them cruelly, forcing them to find as much gold as they could find, and if they did not, they would pay with their lives. Christopher Columbus was sent back to Spain and arrested for it. Instead of staying arrested, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella freed him because he brought a lot of gold to Spain.
 * Spain:** (Jyll)

CP World History Period 7